50 and 250

 This past week brought a lot of reasons to celebrate. First and foremost, this week we were able to celebrate my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. We have been looking forward to this day for a long time. Unfortunately, due to my dad's health, we had to scale back from the original plans, but we still made a great day of it.

We gathered for the day at Ben and Becca's house. We swam, played games, ate, did henna tattoos and talked. Brendon came to town and it was wonderful just to spend the day all together. Emily and I also made a video for the celebration with photos and videos from friends. We probably spent 12-14 hours putting it all together. It was definitely a labor of love.

Just the next night we were celebrating again, this time it was the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country. We started the day with a 4th of July parade. We then went in the afternoon to a friend's house for slip and sliding, games, a BBQ and fireworks.

It has been a great week of celebration.