This Fourth of July was very emotional for me. It started last Sunday at church when we celebrated our freedom; I have been set free from some pretty serious emotional scars all by the Grace of God. So the church service was filled with tears from me releasing all my new burdens to God. Then it went into our holiday celebration with my family. This was a different set of emotion; I was happy to spend the time with my family, yet at the same time a little sad because my older boys chose to stay at their dad's while Lloyd, the baby and I went somewhere else. I was also missing my baby brother who is fighting for our freedom. We did have a BBQ at my parent's house which was okay then Lloyd and I had planned on taking our family to our local mall to see the big firework show. Well, Nathan and Alex decided they would rather stay and set off fireworks, so we went without them. Lloyd, the baby and I really enjoyed ourselves! Luke was a trooper, he stayed awake to see a few of the fireworks, but before the grand finalie he was asleep. He loved the fireworks, he was pointing at them and just in awe of the experience. I just cannot believe that in just about 3 weeks my baby is going to 1! Today we spent a majority of the morning/afternoon outside in our front yard. We let the kids including Luke play in the sprinklers and just enjoyed the beautiful weather! We played catch and the boys got into a water ballon fight. Overall we had a great Fourth of July weekend!