Well hello there July

So you would think since there are two of us that we would be better about updating this thing, but alas we have failed. When I read other people's blogs (OPB) I feel like I should go back to school and take a creative writing class, b/c well my writing is not so creative.

Any who ... let me think of what has been going on in our lives since early June.

June 7th - We went to the Jimmy Buffett concert. It was so much fun. We tailgated with 4 other couples and had quite a nice set-up. 2 tents, chairs for everyone, a fan, lots of food, a grill and lots of excellent decorations. It was over 100 degrees outside so that was less than ideal, but a few beers and Buffett made it all worthwhile.

The whole crew at Buffett

June 14th - 16th - We headed up to Sylva for a birthday weekend celebration. Sean's Gramma Lib turned 90 and our nephew Brandon turned 1. It was great getting to see all the in-laws and celebrate such a milestone with the Libster. Also, we felt very blessed to actually be in town for one of the niece/nephews birthdays. We have 5 of them but they all live up in the "high country", so we are the bad aunt and uncle that never get to be there. There was an excellent pinata game with a bunch of 1-8 year olds and a whiffle bat. Needless to say - the pinata won but it provided us grown ups with a lot of great laughs.

Sean and Gramma Lib at her 90th Birthday Party

Brandon sporting his blue icing

July 21st - Sean headed off to CMP (Carolina Motorsports Park) down in SC for a long weekend of racing. I stayed home and went to the Toby Keith concert on Saturday night with Kim and Ashley Wilson. Though a big fan, I had never been to a country concert before. It was a lot of fun and definitely a concert I could sing along to. We got some crazy weather that weekend. So before the concert a monsoon hit and it down poured for 3 hours straight. Lucky we had a tent and had gotten it up before it started raining. Two concerts in the same month and completely different weather - thanks NC weather!

The group at Toby Keith (before the rain)

July 28th-29th - This past weekend was much more low key. We had two cookouts to go to but no traveling was involved - thank goodness. I studied a bunch because I had my second ARE exam on Monday. Hopefully I will be posting in a few weeks that I passed - cross your fingers!

And now here we are in July - I swear time is flying this year.
Yesterday we went out to dinner with Kim, John & Aidan for Kimber's birthday. It was great to see them and celebrate with her. Yesterday was also Bo's 8th birthday. I got him a "doggie peanut butter cupcake" which he mostly just licked but seemed pretty excited about. We also got him one of those Benafulls (sp?) meals. He devoured that and ended his birthday with a full belly asleep on the couch. I still can't believe he is 8. He's such an old man.

Bo licking all the icing and sprinkles off his cupcake

We are staying in town for the 4th weekend. Tomorrow we are walking over to Brian & Kim O'Days for a cookout and fireworks show.
We hope you all have a safe and happy 4th of July!
Happy Birthday America :)!