Parade, parade and more parades! What a fun week! I really wish I had taken more pictures! Kelly and Heather you girls have me hooked! This blog thing is going to be fun, and so I'm sure I'll be taking many more pictures and even videos. This video is the last couple of seconds of my first 5K race ever! I ran it in 28:45! Matt thought he was taking a picture, but it was accidentally set to video mode. I wish he had kept taping as I ran across the finish line, but I'm sure he was in panic mode thinking, "My wife is going to kill me for not getting a picture of this." My poor husband. He is so wonderful! He had all four girls at the race by 7 to watch me cross the starting line and the finish line. (I need to figure out how to get pictures off of my cell phone--there is a great one of the girls) It meant so much to me to have them all there!
Anyway, we spent the whole week with friends and neighbors. Sunday and Monday nights we went to Wines Park for music and entertainment. Tuesday night was watching "Alvin and the Chipmunks" on a big screen at the baseball fields. Thursday was the horse parade and the rodeo! The girls loved that! Matt was in heaven (although I am sure that heaven doesn't smell that bad). I know Matt dreams of the day he can watch his girls barrel race. Friday was another parade and Saturday was the 5K, breakfast at the park and even another parade. Somewhere in there we fit a couple of birthday parties and swimming at the scera pool. I also had young women's on Tuesday night (climbing the rock wall!) and BOOK CLUB on Wednesday! I love my book club girls! For now I think you are the only ones looking at my new blog. ;) I need to invite my family now that I kinda think I have the hang of this. I still need someone to teach me all of the tricks though.
Okay, that's it for now--my family needs dinner! I love this last picture though! I love this country! Aren't we so blest?! I love this time of year with the fairs, rodeos, parades and fireworks. A really good friend of mine lost her brother a year ago in Iraq. She was sitting across the street from us at the parade on Saturday. I watched her smile as the flags went by. She was holding her new little boy who was named after her brother. For his funeral they asked me to arrange and play a piano solo with How Great Thou Art and America, The Beautiful! I get to play it for them again during a special Sacrament Meeting on July 13th. Putting those two songs together was so very appropriate. It was incredible to see the family obey the amazing protocol of the US Army, but yet share their testimony of a Father in Heaven who knows and loves us and this country. Happy 4th of July everyone!! We hope it will be a special time. I'm sure I'll have pictures for you next week of camping trip number 2.
