A Perfect Day ?

Yesterday was a perfect day or at least as close to perfect as a day could get.

To start things off, the weather was absolutely stunning (for us). It was in the mid to high 70's with blue skies. For most of the day, there was a slight breeze and a few sprinkles throughout to keep it cool but not force you to go for cover.

With it being Memorial Day, we walked down to Liberty and Columbus to watch our towns parade. Walking down the the parade was another example of why we love living downtown.

After the parade, we walked back home and we hung out in the front yard. we did this for two reasons, one we are able to "throw" pop-ups better in the front yard; but we also get to see people. Sometimes, we disconnect ourselves so much. thus, we find when we are in the front yard, we can see/talk to more people. We also wrestled and boxed, I will try to get some videos up of that.

I then walked over to the church to say hi to the boy scouts. They were having a fund raiser at the warehouse. I gave them a donations but did not eat the food; so I can't give a review about that. There was going to be plenty of food the rest of the day, so I did not want to eat.

After that, I walked home and we stopped by the store to grab some things for our night cookout. We packed them in the car and then went off to a grad party. We were there for about 3 hours - out in the backyard enjoying great food and great fellowship out in god's creation. It does not get much better than that.

We then headed home because we (Stacey) needed to finish dinner for a family that was recently in the hospital. While she was doing that, we played outside. When she got home, we were prepping for a wiener roast and s'mores over the new fire bowl that was put together.

The fire started at around 7:30 and it took awhile to get it going - we laughed that it looked much better at 9:30 when we were ready to put it out then when we were cooking. The great thing about the night - was the people - the kids (actually).

For those who do not know or have lost track :), we have three kids. During one portion of the night, we had 13 kids in the yard. Some were roasting hot dogs, some were catching their marshmallows on fire and some were just hanging out on the swing.

The night was planned has us 5 but it was so much more and better with so many faces hanging around. Our next door neighbors were having a party as well - theirs were planned. I went over and told them that we had plenty of s'mores ingredients left. I "demanded" them to come on over and make some. they came on over and as the kids departed for their separate homes, we sat there in the 'darkness' with the fire going talking and having conversation.

We have said hi's in the passing and waved numerous times and smiled quite a few but this is the first time that we sat down and really talked - they were wonderful. It is amazing what a fire bowl and food can do.

We are looking forward to more spontaneous nights and the kids have already promised us (me) that when the fire is going; they were going to invade. I told them that is perfectly fine and they smiled in a sense of shock.

This morning on the way to school, we passed a few of them and greeted them with hi's. One of them waited at the corner for my boys to get there so they could walk into school together.

Yup, yesterday was almost perfect, if not perfect. Anyone up for hotdogs and marshmallows ?