Monday, July 20, 2009

It seems like I've been gone forever! Let's start with July 4th. It was an awful day, it rained the whole day! Luckily, we didn't have any outdoor plans for that day. Although, the fireworks got postponed until the 5th. We did have burgers and hot dogs on the grill. I made potato salad and fruit salad. Heather made deviled eggs and pasta salad. And I threw this together for dessert. It's a pound cake that I cut in half horizontally, put some strawberries on the bottom half then put some cool whip on top then added the top part of the cake put some cool whip on top and then added blueberries and strawberries on the top. It was really good. On Sunday, the 5th we went down to Fairbanks Park. They had music playing and we sat there and listened to it and they had vendors you could get food and drinks from. Brianna got this balloon hat, it has two dogs on the top of it kissing. She also got an ice cream cone, as you can see.
There ended up being a lot of people that showed up. They had some people dressed up in the olden days that walked around and talked to people and had there picture taken with them.
Then when it got dark the fireworks started and they lasted for a good half hour to 40 minutes. Here is one of the pics of them.
My brother, Kevin was driving back home to Texas from Connecticut via Plattsburgh, NY and then through Montreal, Canada. Him and his daughter, Emily, stopped here on their way through and stayed the night. Every time I see him he asks me if I will make some whoopie pies. I usually don't have the recipe with me so this time I made him some and he loved them. If you haven't ever had one, they are like Drakes devil dogs. He was soooo happy!
This is Emily and Brianna. They were playing with the Nintendo DS's. They had fun together.

The next morning I got up made coffee and biscuits and gravy, also scrambled eggs and bacon. Brianna came over and had breakfast with us. I took a few pics before they left. It was good to see them.
Here they are getting on his bike. They were headed towards Memphis and were going to stop at Graceland. You can see all the dirt in the background. We are trying to find the leak in our water line. What a mess!!
That's all I have for now. I hope everyone is having a great week. Stay safe!


Hugs,

Kathy

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy 4th!

Just wanted to stop in and say I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July!
"God Bless America!"

Kathy