4th of July

We had a great 4th of July this year. We decided to head to the mountains and go swimming and grill steaks. We didn't have much money to spare for the trip so I decided to make some chocolate chip cookies for our snaks and for lunch I grilled some t-bone steaks out of the freezer and make some hobo packets( new potatoes, onions, butter and seasonings wrapped in foil and placed in the coals). I made a packet for each of us. And to think we were eating like kings, but it all came from this farm. The Lord has a sense of humor I tell ya now. We have been praying for rain like crazy around here and we got to the lake about 11am and I had no longer got these steaks on and it started to thunder, it kept getting closer and closer, we no more sat down to eat and it started lightning like crazy. We had to pack everything up REALY FAST. We barely got in the truck when the bottom fell out. So we decided to head somewhere else, We drove around for a while looking at the hill country, just enjoying ourselves, the temperature was 71. It felt great. We finally decided to head back south to another lake closer to home, but the rain followed us there too. We found us a table and grill and parked, someone had just left it and the coals in the grill was still hot. We put our soaked charcoal on and some pieces of wood, to get it started again and I put the now cold steaks and potatoes back on to warm up. Where we were at was the swimming beach at this state park and he wanted to swim so bad, he kept asking to just go put his foot in, and everytime we did , boy a crack of lightning would hit and we would run back to the truck. Need less to say after a while the lightning quit and and we just had a slight drizzle. The kids swam anyway untill about 8 we finally got to eat our steaks and then we got cleaned up and went and watched the fireworks show that this park puts on every year. Even with all storms we had a great time, we needed to get away so bad. We have been working so much and the kids have not had much play time. The Lord blessed us with a great day! GOd is so good.

T-Bone steaks on to grill

Waiting for the fireworks


Sunset at the swimming beach after all the rain.
It was just beautiful!

Fireworks over the lake, they were awesome, the kids oohhed and ahhhed!

God is GOOD!