July 4th Weekend

What a fab Independence Day weekend it has been!!

Friday night I grabbed a dinner with Diana and we perused McKays.  I came home and actually went to bed relatively early!

Saturday I drove up to Morristown to spend the day/evening with Whitney's family!  On the way there, I stopped and had lunch with Melissa.  It was so fun to see her, even for just a minute :)  I went on to Whit's and we just sat by the pool, swam, played cornhole, ate wonderful low country boil, and shot off (or watched as the boys shot off) fireworks!  It was great!  A lot of their neighbors were shooting off fireworks too so it was fun to watch those too!

Sunday, I met up with Latisha and went over to one of her friend's houses that has a pool.  We literally sat by the pool all afternoon! It was so relaxing and great!  There were a bunch of people over there and we grilled out burgers and just hung out all day.  It was so nice.  I am still full! We had burgers, guacamole, corn on the cob, grilled asparagus, baked beans, chips, watermelon, and homemade banana pudding! MMmmm!  After dinner we went downtown to another friends house that lives above Market Square.  We went up on the roof of her building to watch the fireworks in Knoxville over the river!  There were tons of fireworks going off in every direction and it was awesome to be on the roof and be able to see them all.  Knoxville put on a pretty great show - 20 to 25 minutes of fireworks so it was great!  We stayed there and hung out for awhile to let the traffic clear and came home late! It was even better because we didn't have to be in the "throng of wife beaters and funnel cakes", as one of Latisha's friends put it! Haha! Although, we did miss out on some GREAT people watching!

 This was our view of the fireworks from the top of Jenn's building.  The fireworks were on the river, just on the other side of the Hilton but we had a perfect view of them from the roof!

Monday - NO WORK!! It is so great to have this day to be lazy.  I'll probably do some cooking, finish up some laundry, read, watch a movie or two, sit on the porch in the sun...should be pretty relaxing.  I'm so looking forward to being lazy!  All the sun this weekend has been great! I haven't even gotten burned so I'm working on my pre-tan for the beach! Can't wait!

I can't think of a better way to celebrate this lifestyle that we've been grated as Americans by the people who have freely given their time and their lives to serve our country. Today I celebrate the One who paid my ransom and set my soul free. and I thank Him for all the men and women who have given their lives for my physical freedom. it is the highest honor to reap from no greater love. "Greater love hath no man than this-that a man lay down his life for his friends."