Happy July!

Our 4th of July was pretty quiet...boys went fishing in the morning, we took the kids to a splash pad in the early evening, had tacos for dinner and watched "Night at the Museum". We went to a neighborhood BBQ the night before with the huge firework display so that was fun and the kids got to enjoy some good, fun, totally legal fireworks.

Today I got paid from babysitting the neighbor boy....almost enough to buy my diet software. It's called Diet Power and it totally ROCKS! I love it. We had it on another computer a number of years ago and I lost a bunch of weight using it. I'm hoping for even better results this time around. So anyway, the babysitting money will go toward buying the software. DH supports and approves of the purchase, so I'm going to go for it. Not that he's trying to tell me that I'm fat and I need to lose weight - he's much, much to kind for that. He has always been extremely supportive in anything I do - except maybe the whole babysitting thing. He's not such a fan of that. Fortunately, it will be for only one more school year and even then, it's only a little longer than 1/2 day. And, thanks to him...my wardrobe is slowly but surely improving because of the fruits of my labor. I'm still trying to talk him into using the money for new clothes for both of us but he's not going for it. But like I tell him...he's being stubborn! I'll just have to keep asking!

So - completely off topic....DH put up a blog of some videos of my little bro. He passed away August 1, 2003. It's fun to see these videos that we'd taken over the years. They've just been sitting in the basement waiting for us to figure out what to do with them and this is a good start. So anyway....if I start writing about him, I'll blubber on and on so I'll just stop right here. But - in honor of him....here's Burke's Blog.