Look at this flour sack towel made by my very talented Mom! I've been enjoying drying my hands on it for the past week or so :) We had a tasty Mexican food dinner last night with some friends, and we found some fireworks for later. Our "regular" fireworks show at MCC didn't happen this year (sad) so we found a show in Gilbert; not as impressive but still lots of fun. It cooled down yesterday and the weather was actually quite pleasant during the fireworks; we were only sweating due to running races across the park to pass the time waiting for the fireworks to start. For the record (according to Noah's stopwatch), I am exactly as fast as Molly. Who is eight and who has legs about 2/3 the length of mine. Oh well.
The fourth of July is always fun isn't it? I hope you had a wonderful day too! Oh and also for the record, our closing hymn at church was the Star Spangled Banner, and I bawled all the way through the last verse. Embarrassing since I had to get up to say the closing prayer right afterwards.
Have a great Monday!
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I got choked up in our closing hymn yesterday too (it was the same one).
Ahhh, we sang the same song as the closing hymn, and Jake got emotional as well. What a great country we live in! We watched fireworks on Friday night, so we didn't have to mess with the crowds. We went to Josh and Nicole's for dinner last night, and saw some random (illegal ones) throughout the valley from their backyard.
We celebrated our 4th of July today, Monday. For our FHE we had a young couple who are members of the church and work at the US Consolate here in Sao Paulo speak to us. We sang The Star Spangled Banner & God Bless America and I must say that they never have impacted me more that they did while singing them outside of our great country. OUR COUNTRY IS AWESOME! We followed up with hot dogs, potato salad, jello and apple pie. It was great but it made us very homesick. God bless America!!!
We sang the Star Spangled Banner for opening. I was leading the congregation and trying my best not to cry...
I played the organ on Sunday and couldn't play the Star Spangled Banner without singing my heart out right there at the organ. Sjon and I went to Stadium of Fire and I spent the first half hour or so of the show in tears. A little embarrassing...
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