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The Bunch Celebrate The Fourth And See The Notebook At Bass Hall

I can't believe I managed not to get anyone else in the shot!

This was actually a fun week! Things are starting to slow down a little and we had a few fun things planned. 

First off A is REALLY tired of working this summer. In the past 2 weeks A has only had one day off and spent the entire weekend at work on call and not leaving until 10 pm. She normally loves her work but also knows she doesn't want to do it full time. She enjoys her 25-30 hours a week. She even got called in on Saturday literally on our way out the door to enjoy our town's fourth of July festival. She had really been excited to go, but unfortunately got called back in to work for the third time that day to do a surgery and ended up not being able to leave until 10pm. She has been going out a couple of times with the new guy she's dating, but mostly she's just working. She's counting the days down until July is over and she goes back to her regular schedule. A won tickets for us to see the Notebook at Bass Hall! We had a wonderful time seeing it! It is in our top 3 of Broadway shows. 

This was even better than I thought it would be! 

The lotto is definitely the way to see the shows. We got two tickets plus parking for $65! 

Our seats weren't the best we have won, but still pretty darn good.

We even stayed after to get autographs from most of the cast.

T has been busy doing odd jobs for our neighbors and family plus getting everything together to start the academy in the fall. He has church camp this week so we also finished getting his stuff ready to go to that. This year the church decided to try a new camp in the Hill Country. At least, I know he can swim well....just in case. 

C and H used to always go with us to the July 4th festival by our old house and when we moved we stopped doing that. This year we decided to go to our town's fourth festival, which for whatever reason they have decided to do on the last Saturday in June, which has really messed with me this week. I have had the hardest time NOT thinking it's already July! C and H picked up some pizza for us for dinner and then we headed out to the festival. It was fun! I wish A would have been able to join us, but it was a nice reminder of our past holidays. To make it up for A we are going to another festival this weekend that she can go to because she won't be on call!

There is no parking at the festival so there is 8 satellite locations that they shuttle you to and from.

The festival started at 5pm but to avoid the heat we didn't arrive until after 7:30pm. It turned out to be perfect. The sun was behind the tree line and it didn't feel horrible.

There were water slides for the kids, roller coaster, tons of craft and food vendors, plus a live band. Our kids would have loved this when they were little! Maybe we will bring Baby Wes when he gets older.

H has been doing really well! So has C! I am glad his health scares are behind us for now.

H had a craving for Mexican corn. She said she didn't care how much it cost. She was getting some.😂 It was perfect timing too because she bought the literal last one!

I love fireworks and the Fourth!



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