Before I post about my fabulous Thanksgiving week I have to catch you up on my 4th of July in November Party and my black eye. November 18th marked my one year anniversary of being home from Kuwait. What a joyous day one year ago! So, I decided to throw a 4th of July Party on Friday, November 19th in celebration of being home- I love the USA!
Visiting with my friend Tina
It was the best 4th of July party I've ever had in November. We had hot dogs, watermelon, chips, angel food cake, cookies, and I made an apple pie. We even had fireworks! After all it just wouldn't be right to have a 4th of July Party with no fireworks! There was a mini program even. Pretty fancy!
My friend Diana is probably one of the most patriotic people I know and we had a discussion the previous Sunday whether one had to leave the country in order to have a greater appreciation of what we have here. She does not think that is necessary and even wrote a little essay about it. So, the mini program started with her reading her essay and then we had the fireworks show. I'm sad I did not get any pictures of the fireworks, so you will have to use your imagination. I brought up a U-Tube video of fireworks, had Lee Greenwood going in the background and asked for audience participation to add the fireworks sound as we threw poppers into cake pans and cookie sheets. It was great! We were rockin' to "Proud To Be An American" and occasionally threw in an "oooohhhh" and an "aaahhhhhh". It was pretty fun!
I am so happy to live in this great country. I am so blessed to have wonderful friends and family around to help me celebrate! Thanks all for supporting my crazy ideas like having a 4th of July party in November!
Diane and I
So another crazy idea of mine (it wasn't my idea exactly, but I did help it come about) was to get an all girl game of flag football going. Saturday, November 20th was supposed to be a beautiful day here in Colorado, so we played. There was a group of 8 of us and we had a good time. I did get a battle wound in the process of playing... a nice black eye! The tip of the ball hit me in the corner of the eye and the bruise crept down under my entire eye- oh so pretty! I'm sure the little push I received from Audra didn't help, but really the blame lies on me since I can't seem to catch the ball! After a fun game of football I went running, then played some tennis, then finished my 4.5 hours of working out with doing some lunges, push-ups and sit-ups. Needless to say I was hurtin' the next day! So worth it though since it was such a fun day!
4 comments:
Nice shiner Julie!!!
Your 4th of July party sounds great!! Maybe you should be a professional party planner!!!!
Great times! love the eye.
The black eye just shows how tough you are. It was beautiful. I liked to see the shade of purple change each day.
Your party does sound fun. Glad you still had the balloons and signs to keep my kids entertained! Love the menu you had.. true american food for sure!
That's quite the shiner...but you really need to come up with a better story. :)
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