Our Fourth of July

Happy Independence Day!!! We had a very quiet day. The parade was at 9 am, but it was raining so we decided to stay home. Kyle was ok with that---he played in his tent and watched tv. Eddie updated the computers and downloaded some new songs for our Ipods. I read, watched tv, thought about working on my lesson plans and just relaxed. After lunch, I read some books to Kyle and then we decided to go see Ratatouille. By the time we got there, the next 3 showings were all sold out--( did I mention it was raining? Guess everyone had the same idea.) so we saw Surf's Up instead. It was cute. Afterwards we were going to do some shopping but were amazed that several of the stores were closed. We don't actually live in a small town---we're on the outskirts of Houston, for goodness sakes!---but we do get the atmosphere of small town life. The only things open were the grocery stores, Walmart and Target. And the restaurants, of course, although we did see a few of the smaller ones were closed as well. Now we're talking 6:30.....I was just surprised that they were closed. We went to On The Border for dinner....Kyle ate some french fries, Eddie and I had some DELISH Mexican food. We came home, Ky got his pjs on, climbe4d in his tent and watched the Flintstones marathon on Boomerang. Eddie and I watched the History Channel until it got dark and then we went outside and sat in the back of his truck and watched the idiots on our street shoot off fireworks for the next hour or so. They were all around us so I kept turning around to see the ones right over our house. Normally I would have been nervous about them falling on the house and starting a fire, but it rained off and on all day yesterday so I think we were ok. I just hated that Trey wasn't there. He loves fireworks and would have loved watching them last night. Hopefully they did lots of fun things at camp yesterday. He comes home tomorrow!! Can't wait to see him!!

Summer Camp

Trey left today for a week at our church camp. He was so very very excited. He started packing last Monday, and has been going through his suitcase every day to make sure he had everything he needed. His 2 buddies, T and T ( we call them the Triple Ts---which could stand for Triple Trouble! lol) were going also, and all I heard all week was his plans for the 3 of them. This morning, he wanted to say goodbye to his dad before he went to work so he asked Eddie to wake him up. At 4:30, he was already awake, dressed and downstairs waiting for his dad to get up. ( He didn't have to be at church until 1 pm!!) All morning, I heard, "is it time to go yet? What time do we need to leave? How long does it take to get to church? "

I just pray that Trey gets as much out of camp as I did growing up.....my summers were spent at camp, first as a camper, then as a teen worker, and later as a counselor. Some of my most precious memories and closest friendships started in those old cabins at camp.

Kyle is spending his week camping also----we put the little pop-up tent in the living room and he's sleeping in there. He's been busy today planning all the fun things we're going to do this week. Tomorrow we're headed to the library for story hour and some new books/dvds and he'll probably try to con me into a stop at McDonald's as well.