4th of July 2016

     We had another successful neighborhood, "Sidewalk of Fire". We had a lot of friends and neighbors congregate and there was lots of yummy food and quite an elaborate fireworks display thanks to a very generous neighbor. (Rumor has it a total of $2500 was spent on the fireworks he shot off for everyone to enjoy!)

      I failed to take a lot of photos but here are the ones I did get.

The kids had lots of fun with the chalk, bubbles and water activities that were made available. (For some reason Mark wasn't around when I was taking photos.)

     Wednesday afternoon these four had the opportunity to spend a little time at the Highland splash pad.

They didn't last long but they had fun.

     And here's a photo of Greg and me after having lunch at Chili's celebrating our 21st wedding anniversary.

     There are still lots of fun activities coming up this weekend but I'll save them for next week. I will share, however, this photo of an impromptu anniversary gift. There was money set aside to jack up our front porch steps that have settled about 2 inches but the quote to fix it was much higher than we were originally told so we bagged that idea and I found new patio furniture on sale instead. We'll deal with the front porch issues later.

A bit smaller then what we had before but with the ottoman's we actually gained more seating and the price was right!