My Favorite Month

I love July. Who doesn't? There is sun, swimming, picnics, & fireworks. Not to mention homemade ice cream, snow cones, and of course watermelon.

One reason I love July so much is my own selfish, personal reason...

Here is what my calendar looks like every May & June:

And then this is how July looks:

Ahhhh, doesn't that just look heavenly? Not much of anything that we have to do. We can mostly just do what we want, when we want.

Another fun thing about this month is that Layne always takes vacation. Honda shuts down for the week of the 4th of July and Layne usually adds on some of his vacation too to make it a nice long break. But this year he is taking a week here and a week there all summer long. It has been fun so far, but I do have to say, when he is home from work it gets expensive. I swear he is at Lowe's everyday. Today the boys came home from Lowe's and pulled the truck out into the backyard. When I went to see what was going on this is what I found...

...a new fire pit. For 13 years we have had a fire pit that was just big rocks found on our property and a shallow hole. We've had many good cook outs with friends and family out there. Now we have a very pretty block fire pit. Good job Layne & boys!









And one more thing I love about July is celebrating our country, The United States of America. I am so grateful to all the men and women that have and currently are keeping us safe and providing us with the freedoms that we hold so dear. We have friends and family that are currently in Iraq and we couldn't be more proud of them and all those that work with them. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!


Have a wonderful 4th of July everyone!