Happy 4th of July!!!

Whew what a weekend... It started on Saturday getting everything ready to head up to Temple to spend the day with my Uncle and Auntie. I made pasta salad, a 4th of July cake and festive cookies. I bought my family matching shirts as I do every year, but Old Navy was out of some sizes I needed so I got them at Wal-mart. I added some beads and ribbon to Aubrynns which made it a little sassy, it took forever, but she is my little Princess and it came out adorable. I think Brandon and I made it to bed around 2 a.m.

We woke up on Sunday around 7 a.m., got ready, packed the car, and headed out so we could make it to the 11am service up at Calvary Austin, but forgot we needed to take care of something and didn't adjust for the extra time, so we were unable to make it. I called my dad to see what he was doing, and he was shopping away at the Conn's 4th of July sale. Since he was busy, we ended up visiting Brandon's brother Gabe for a while. It was a pleasant visit, Brandon even got to ride his motorcycle, which was too funny. We ended up swinging by my dads to see what he bought, then we all went out to lunch before heading to Temple.

My Dad came up with a good idea, to show up and see if my uncle would remember him. So I called my Auntie and asked her if my "friend and his wife" could come over and of course she said yes! So after lunch we headed up there, and then immediately went shopping for some fireworks. My Husband was like a kid in a candy shop, didn't know which ones to buy, good thing my Uncle was there to help him out. While Brandon was shopping, I got to talking about having lunch with my Dad and Pat, I asked him if he would even recognize him if he saw him, and he said yes.

We return to my Uncles house, snack on a bunch of food, and the door bell rings (it was my dad but he didn't know it). My Aunt let my Dad in, and I went to get my Uncle to tell him someone was at the door for him, and he walked into the house, washed his hands and mumbled to me he didn't know that guy, so he proceeds to walk over to him, and my Dad asks him if he remembers him, and my Uncle said no, and my Dad said I'm your ex-brother in law, and he got all excited! It was so funny, because just an hour earlier he told me he would recognize him.

After everyone had some bbq and my fantastic pasta salad, and a bunch of other great food, we head outside to shoot off some fireworks. It was SOOOOOO hot and humid I was dying. But beside the uncomfortable weather everyone had fun. My Auntie helped all the kids with the sparklers, and my Uncle, Dad, Husband and all the teenage boys could have set the block on fire with all the dangerous fireworks they were doing. About 40 minutes into it, the cops shut us down, saying were in the city limits and couldn't do fireworks. So we cleaned up, and went inside. The kids got baths and we all went to bed.

My little ones decided to wake up bright and early, and because I didn't want to wake anyone we packed up and headed out, I mean like before 8am.. TOOO EARLY!!! We got breakfast and headed down to my Dads so that Brandon could mount his TV and set up his surround sound. While they were occupied with that, Pat and I were on a hunt for a T.V. stand to house all the electronics, and luckily we found a nice one on craigslist. We went to pick it up, came home changed the kids and went to the store and off to the pool. It was so hot out, that the pool water was warm, like tooooo warm! After a while we headed back to the house, bathed the kids and my Dad BBQ some hamburger and hotdogs for us on his new grill. We were nice n full, then relaxed for a bit before heading home. Talk about going non stop with toddlers for 2 days, its tiring! But even through all the chaos it was the best 4th of July!