The last two days have been awesome! I've spent it with Ken, 2 sons, 2 daughters n love, ALL six grandkids, my mom, my sis, daughter n love's two brothers, and daughter n love's mom and stepdad. Both days were culinary skills throw downs, hehehehe, our family ALL loves to cook.....foods ranged from ribs and chicken with homemade dry rubs, to shrimp boiled and scampi, to bacon explosion, to strawberry cobbler.....to the strangest food made by oldest son, smoked eggs!

Ken and Ryan had made an evap system to cool the pool down, it had been 96 degrees, welllllllllllllll, it worked a little toooooooooooo good.....the pool was between 80 and 82!

Also, on Friday morn I got my call for work, I'll be filling in till school is over then I'll have full time on 3rd shift....we're soooooooooo excited, thank You Lord!

Friday night ended for Ken and me about 10 pm watching the grandchildren in a pool contest, where they dove with floating pool lights for little men thrown in the pool......it looked like a feeding frenzy of piranhas :)

Yesterday, it started a beautiful day. My oldest cooked breakfast for EVERYONE! Aebleskivers! He and my other son are praying about doing a business with these........oh man, they're awesome!!!!

We go out to the pool, the clouds start boiling and a huge storm rolls in for over an hour :( When it's through, everyone is back in the coldddddddddddd pool, and the thunder starts again. So, me, daughter n love's brother and three grandbabies, being the silly people we are, do a rain dance around the pool, singing at the top of our lungs.....then we have to do a cloud dance ( the grandkids loved it!). And the sun came back out.

Our favorite song to sing was one our 3 yr old granddaughter learned in Bible School.........

I would say "Give me a J!" and she would say " You got tha J, You got tha J!"

Give me an E! You got the E, You got the E! Give me an S! You got tha S, You got the S! Give me a U! You got tha U, you got tha U! Give me a S! You got the S, you got tha S! What does that Spell????? JESUS! JESUS! ( once she ended with You got the spell, you got the spell, hehehehe)

Then more food....we had so much, we invited the neighbors over, LOL

Finally, the grand finale!!!!! Let me explain that this is my fav holiday....it's once a year that my boys are little boys again!

Many beautiful fireworks.....big fireworks. Every year people on our end of town watch our fireworks from their yards....and each year it gets bigger. Well, two granddaughters are scared of fireworks and sit in laps, one wears ear plugs. She was in my lap with the other one on her mom right beside me. It started raining again, so our chairs were moved under the carport. Two shot cannons were being fired......very pretty. But one misfired on the second shot. It propelled sideways hit the front of son's house and bounced off it right into us on the carport! It was coming so quick all I could see was blue light and couldn't get up fast enough to get away from it, because I had the 3 year old in my lap. Daughter n love pushed the 6 year old and told her to run.....she ran right to the other side of me and stood screaming. I threw up my leg to protect the one in my lap and wrapped myself around her, and with that shielded the one standing beside me......and got hit. I have two good sized burns on my back upper thigh where it exploded on me. But, God was there with His angels, neither granddaughter got touched. As soon as I felt the explosion on my leg I grab them up and run, handing them to people to take in the house and check them. I do remember the boys and Ken saying "Are you hurt, are you hurt???" At that time it didn't matter, I wanted my grandbabies safe and unharmed! God protected them! The littlest thought she got hit in the eye, but it was actually me slamming my hand over her face to protect it. Everyone was a little shaken...of course. I guess you're asking if the fireworks were a safe distance away from us? YES. It was a freak accident. This happened at a fireworks show a few years ago not far from us.

What's my point to this, other than telling our 4th and adventure?

I quickly protected my grandchildren....they were allllllllllllll I thought about while it was happening! The burns I got are minor to what hell will be like.......are we spiritually teaching and protecting our family from the worse that could happen......burning in hell?????? Sure, it was automatic instinct of a grandmother to protect them from physical danger, but in that train of thought it should be automatic instinct as a christian to protect and teach our family spiritually, to save them from eternal burning. Yes, you will face rejection, just like I got burned, but burns heal and you start all over!

As far as our family.........WE GOT THE J, WE GOT THE J, WE GOT THE E, WE GOT THE E, WE GOT THE S, WE GOT THE S, WE GOT THE U, WE GOT THE U, WE GOT THE S, WE GOT THE S!

WE GOT JESUS, WE GOT JESUS!