Happy 4th of July!

We had a pretty good weekend after my bad Friday. Friday night after Eric picked me up from work we headed south to see my sister in the hospital. I'm not sure if I've mentioned but she broke her ankle and had to get surgery on Thursday. She ended up getting 1 plate, 6 pins and 1 screw in her ankle. So anyway we visited her for quite a while and took my mom to dinner. It was a nice evening. Ash was pretty doped up and hurting, but she's tough.

Saturday morning we got up and had planned on going to see War of the Wor*lds, but after running several errands and lunch we decided to just have a relaxing evening at home, which is what we did.

Sunday we got up early and got ready. Eric's parents arrived around 11:30. After chatting with them for a while they proposed their proposition to us that we had no idea was coming. See when they stay with us, they sleep in our bed and we take the couch and air mattress. Well, MIL does not like our bed. Its only a full size and at least one dog sleeps with us. So yea, they wanted to buy us a new bed? How could we say NO? Well, we didn't. We shopped around several stores and EVERYONE tried out mattresses. We finally found one and bought it. It is going to be delivered this Wednesday. Woohoo! We can't wait! They left early evening and we headed south again for my family's fireworks festivities. Grams bought the stores out on supplies for sundaes, banana splits and ANYTHING you could think of for ice cream and goodies for the top. We had bought a few fireworks ourself and after we got there the guys thought they should just put on their own show for us and ended up making 2 more trips down the street to get more fireworks. It was a great time though over all. We had every single family member there (this is RARE) and got a nice family photo, including individual family photos and any other set-up you can think of. hee hee I was a bit nervous b/c Ash was coming home with us and I was worried about the dogs and just her being at our house w/ a broken ankle, but the dogs were fine. I think they sense it.

Yesterday we had a good day, too. We slept in a bit and lounged around on the couch a bit. In the afternoon, I washed Ash's hair for her and her back. We headed out to the fireworks around 4:30. After sitting for a while it started thundering and stuff, so we headed towards Piz*za Hut for dinner. While we were eating, it cut lose and there was a torrential down pour. It came down so fast that there was standing water every where. It was over the curb even. Eric drove up the sidewalk where wheel chairs can access in order for Ashlee to not get in the lake that had formed. It was quite humorous. We waited a while and it wasn't letting up, so we headed home. We checked and there was another line coming in, but not til later and it let up, so we headed back out. We set up shop behind the "Ho" and listened to the radio and munched on snacks. The fireworks ended up starting 25 minutes early, while we were on the way back from the bathroom, but they were still good. It was obvious that they were hurried as the show only lasted 15-20 minutes max. It was good though and we were back home by 9:40 or something. Several people in our neighborhood were letting stuff off and it didn't really bother me too bad, but apparently it started raining around 11:00. I think they got a nice show in though. I would have though they would have put their show on on Sunday since most people didn't have to work Monday, but nope they waited til the actual 4th. I was beat last night and finally fell asleep between 10:15-10:30. I slept like a log though. I think I needed it though.