Happy 4th of July

So James and I were able to enjoy our 4th of July weekend at the lake with family this year. We drove to Post (the middle of nowhere Texas for those of you unfamiliar) and met up with James' parents and brother's family. We went out on the lake Friday and Saturday and enjoyed ourselves with everyone, watched the fireworks and took it pretty easy. James learned to ski finally. Normally he gets dragged around a few times and gives up but he did it on the first try this time. YEA!! Here are a few pics of our weekend.

Hope you all enjoyed yours. I'm so grateful for this wonderful land we have been blessed with and I hope that we continue to be blessed even while so many people try to take away what was hard fought for. God Bless America!!

Here is Branson showing off his skills on the knee board. He had to give his Uncle Jimmy a couple of pointers.

What? Do I have something on my face?!? Lane really loves Oreos!

Macy is being silly and telling knock knock jokes. Her current favorite is Knock Knock....Who's There? Macy. Macy Who? Macy Fleischman!!! and your response is supposed to be Nice to meet you.

James is trying out his tips from Branson. Seems to be working as he gives the signal to go faster.

Brodie is a cool little dog. His friend Branson enjoyed dressing him up in various pairs of sunglasses.

Here is Brodie being a smart dog and hiding in the crawl space where we keep all the towels. Now he is dry and comfy relaxing on the boat.

James after finishing his first successful ski run.

Marlene and Dan taking it easy.

Tagged

How To Play This Game of Tag:Post these rules on your blog.List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself.Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!

THREE JOYS
1. Cooking- I love cooking and entertaining...having people over and serving a great meal and making people happy is so much fun to me
2. A good book - I am reading Hearts of the Children and can't wait to finish it...then I'll move on to Joel Rosenberg
3. friends
THREE FEARS
1. birds - I think they are the creepiest little things....they just stare and stare with their beady, little eyes
2. losing my job or James his
3. kids that I can't give back :-)
THREE GOALS
1. Stay as "Cool" as I am now. Remind me when I have teens that I was once cool - even to the Young Women
2. pay off my bills
3. plant a garden
THREE CURRENT OBSESSIONS
1. House Decor - any of it I just love it all. I love spending other peoples money to help them decorate their house too. :-)
2. BBQ - every summer I rediscover the grill and want to use it all the time
3. cleaning and organization. I hate it when things are disorganized but I hate to be the one to organize and I love a clean house but I just wish a little fairy would clean it for me
THREE RANDOM SURPRISING FACTS
1. I really like football since James explained the game to me about 4 years ago. Now I know what a first down is. Changes your whole perspective
2. I love German Food.
3. I really enjoy old cars and learning about them. Not working on them or getting dirty but I just like to talk to people about them.

Tag anyone else who feels like doing this

So I am obviously not very good at posting but I do try to go read up on everyone else's blogs and keep up to date. Usually this is done either late at night or during work so I don't have much time to post anything to y'all.

But here is a little update on James and I.

Memorial Day weekend my in laws came to town and we had a nice time. We went to Fredericksburg and ate some great German food (my in-laws Marlene and Ralph next to a giant carved wood eagle in Fredericksburg), went to Enchanted Rock only to be told it would cost us $24 to climb up a giant granite rock in 100 degree weather so we took a picture with the sign and called it done!

Then we also went to the Natural Bridge Caverns in Georgetown which are an extension of the Carlsbad Caverns. It was so humid and muggy outside that the beautiful temperature of 62 degrees year round made it more bearable.

My father in law took all of these pictures and he even took one of James and I since we never have pictures of us anywhere.

Then we have just been working and for those of you that don't know what we do, James is a computer geek. He works for the Department of Veterans Affairs writing software programs that allow veterans to more easily get access to government funds for housing. I work in sales for a granite company. So basically I sell countertops to all different kinds of people. I am attaching a couple of pictures of one of my most recent homes that is on the market for a measly 1.185 Million. Pocket change right?

And then on June 14th we celebrated our 5 year anniversary. Seems like forever! :-) We had a very nice anniversary, I remade our wedding cake and then we went to Ruth's Chris for dinner. That is the best steak I have ever had in my entire life. I don't know if I will ever be able to eat another steak again! And you are basically up to speed on our life as of right now.

We did finish painting the majority of our house so I am in the process of putting all of that back together but will try to post pics later on.

ABC Tag

Well Kiersty keeps saying I don't post and I don't but I guess I'll post this one. No one checks this except maybe Kiersty anyways. But here you go!

I've been tagged by Kiersty... Here it goes:
A.ATTACHED OR SINGLE? attached
B.BEST FRIEND? Ashley for a girl and James for a boy
C.CAKE OR PIE? 7 layer chocolate cake
D. DAY OF CHOICE? Friday at 5….. I know I have a whole weekend ahead of me
E. ESSENTIAL ITEMS? Phone, lip gloss, bronzer and mascara
F. FAVORITE COLORS? red
G. GUMMY BEARS OR WORMS? worms
H. HOMETOWN? Not really sure. I tell everyone Mesa since I don’t sound like I’m from Texas
I. INDULGENCE? Shopping…..i love to shop for anything and everything
J. JANUARY OR JULY? July
K. KIDS? someday
L. LIFE ISN'T COMPLETE WITHOUT? chocolate
M. MARRIAGE DATE? 6/14/03
N. NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS? 4 sisters, 2 brother-in-laws; 3 sisters-in-law; 3 more brothers-in-law
O. ORANGES OR APPLES? Oranges fresh off the tree otherwise apples
P. PHOBIAS OR FEARS? Snakes and scorpions
Q. QUOTE? If you haven’t had a compliment in the last month change your hair.
R. REASONS TO SMILE? Sun, a day off work, great nights sleep
S. SUPERMAN OR WONDER WOMAN? Wonder Woman
T. TAG 5 PEOPLE- I don’t even have 5 people to send this to
U. UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME? I hate to clean but dislike a dirty house
V. VEGETABLES? I like all veggies…spinach, artichokes, fresh sweet corn on the cob…..yummy!W. WORST HABIT? Folding laundry
X.. XRAY OR ULTRASOUND? Ultrasound from my gall stones wasn’t terrible but the cat scan sucked for sure.
Y. YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? Mexican for sure, but Italian comes in a close second
Z. ZODIAC SIGN? Pisces

Created not by Mhari

It is always said that the oldest sister is the bossiest etc. However, I would admit today that just for today i am stepping it up as the second oldest. Mhari has refused to start a blog or get a gmail account by which she can comment on my blog. So I created this one for Mhari. We'll see how mad she is when I send her the link to her own blog...LOVE YA- Kierst (ps. if you couldn't tell I am trying to avoid writing a paper)