The Beginning of the 4th July Celebration

The Flag Raising Ceremony.

 This flag at Macey's is huge.

 Their flag raising was not what I expected.  We got there at 8am and the flag was already up.  We thought we missed it, but we didn't.  They just lowered it, had a small moment of silence, then raised it again.  It was a well thought out plan because of the size of it.

 They had some veterans there.  One of them said a few words before the flag was lowered.

 When the flag was up they released some balloons.  They did more than is pictured.  It was fun seeing how small they would get.

The Flag Retirement

We went but did not take pictures.  So sad.  There were more people at that one.  

 The Carillon Concert

It was a windy day.

 The Bell Tower is behind us.

Michael reading Catching Fire while listening to the Bells.

Baby, Garden, Ice Cream, Spout

I was better this week at taking pictures.

We watched Isaac for a while one day.

 Michael was balancing that funny looking water gun thing on his finger, which fascinated Isaac.  And He wanted to do it too.

 We also talked on the phone

 And were just cute.

 So if you make comments in a public way about wanting to garden, you'll get offers from people with their own yards to let you garden there. 

It was brought up that I don't have any pictures of me.  So here I am.

 You see the space where there is only dirt, well there use to be tall grass there.

You see the space where there is only dirt, well now there are seeds and garden plants there.

We got a buy a small scoop get a small scoop free, so we went out on a date to get some ice cream.

 Picture #2 of me.  

I got Toffee Pecan Crunch

 Michael got Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

The rest is on Sprout so feel free to exit blog now.

 Now this plant is on a window sill that faces west.  So at night the tops of their heads are all curved facing window because of the sun light that comes in.

 However, there is no sun light at night.  So in the mornings they're mostly standing straight up.  You can kind of tell in the photos.