Our 4th of July

The 4th of July found us down south in Circlevile/Panquitch. Jared and I decided to make a weekend vacation of it and stayed in Paquitch while the other were at the RV park in Circleville. We were lucked out and found a motel that would allow dogs. Functionally was all that matter because we spent very little time here. We arrived at 9:00 pm on the 3rd.

The morning of the 4th we traveled through the canyon to meet up with the others in Cricleville for the parade. Kaitlyn and Eryk were dressed for the occasion.

They really go all out with the candy at this pararde

Then it was back to the RV park for breakfast

and to get ready to go to the lake

Kailtyn Humored me by posing for the this picture. Similar to this one: http://cre8ncam.blogspot.com/2008/07/celebrating-4th.html From last year

Then it was on to the lake, where it was a little hot for the 1st part of the day. Chloe found a nice way to cool off by laying in the lake

And chasing sticks in the water

Jared shielded himself with an umbrella that didn't last much longer when the wind started blowing

Eryk spent some time hunting Lizards

Then it began to rain, sending everyone to seek shelter

The rain did not last too long and it certainly cooled things down a bit

Back to fishing

Waiting for a bite

Playing in the water

Relaxing on the 4 wheeler

Hanging out with friends

It wasn't too long after the line was cast out that Eryk got a bite

Catch and release

Cheyenne trying her luck!

Chloe taking it all in

Smiling for me. Isn't she beautiful?

Kaitlyn and friends

The beauty of the lake

Dancing with the dog

More beauty

Time for dinner

The moon across the lake

Eating

Sunset

The moon

Sparklers by the fire

More moon and lake

The fire an waiting for the big fireworks

Let the fireworks begin

Happy Birthday to my Dad!

There is no ice cream, no cake, no presents to be had

just a silent birthday wish for my Dad

Happy Birthday to my Father

There are no candles, no flowers

not on this day nor this hour,

just a teary-eyed birthday wish for my Father

Happy Birthday to my Dad

There are no noise makers, or streamers

just a room with one dreamer, lonely and sad

with a tear in my eye and a song in my heart

a simple birthday wish for my dad!

I miss you and love you with all of my heart and not a day goes by that I don't think about you. I know you are well and whole so I cannot wish you back here to suffer that again. Happy Birthday and I will see you on the otherside

Happy Happy Birthday!

To no one really in particular. This was just the outcome of a challenge I made myself to complete 10 Birthday cards in 5 days. About a week before our family reunion I had nothing for the raffle and really no money to go out and buy anything. So I decided to make a set of birthday cards and I only had about 5 days to it. Kay, so perhaps you are saying to yourself 10 cards no biggie. Except I work outside of the home and leave at 4:30 am and arrive home at 3:45 in the afternoon. So anything I did had to be done between the few free hours of getting home and going to bed so I can get up by 3:30 am. I wanted to make nice cards too not just some easy thrown together things and then I decided I might as well make two of each so it ended up being 20. There were times when I wasn't certain I could do it but at 11:30 pm on Friday I tied the ribbon on the box and called it good. Here are the fruits of my labor:

I really wanted to make a nice box for display and had all the material or so I though untill I got home and discovered the box wasn't big enough. I had to make a quick trip to Wal-Mart about 15 minutes away to find some way to display them. All I could find was shrinkable plastic for baskets so it had to do