Fourth of July

For the first time in the time since I have known Jay, we did not celebrate the 4th with his family in Vermont. This year there are several reasons why we didn't. First, Jay's parents sold their house in VT and bought one a little closer in PA. We are really going to miss VT and that area of the country. It was so awesome for this MS girl to watch fireworks on the 4th of JULY in jeans and a sweatshirt.

Instead of the green moutains, we spent our 4th with the M-Braves. My friend, Rob, joined us for the game. It was quite a night. Coach Wellman got thrown out in the bottom of the 1st inning, so we had fireworks, before the game even got started good. Also, Jeff Francour was down from the bigs playing and that made things interesting as well. Here is a beautiful shot from before the game, that made it really feel like the 4th.



I was trying out the special things on my camera and took a few pics of the fireworks.

Why Do We Have to Have Weeds?

A month or so ago, my wonderful parents came down and helped me redo our front flower bed. It has needed help every since we moved in a year ago, but I really wanted to do things on the inside first.

Well, Mom and Dad had this bright idea that they had gotten from HG TV that we would put a layer of newspaper down before planting our plants and that would keep the weeds from growing up in the beautiful flower beds.

I come home one day from work to notice this:

This particular weed, had come up under the brown paper bag, that we had to use because we ran out of newspaper and then through the newspaper:



Now, they are getting out of control!!! I wish that I could make them go away!