Great 4th Weekend - with a suprise, top-secret new fireworks watching location

We have some great friends and we have some great times together! Here are some highlights from our weekend:

Our friends Josh and Aubrey from York, PA came down on Saturday evening and we had a good time grilling, talking, playing with kids and of course eating! We just love to be with friends, especially when they come over and don't even seem to notice the giant mess of our house as we are packing.

Sunday morning was a great morning at church as Pastor Nikolai spoke in morning services. He's a pastor from Bulgaria that we are partnering with for the next couple years (at least). The Bel Air Church sent a team there in March of this year and will be heading back next August. This kind of missional partnering is so much better than the one and done deal. Its so much more in line with biblical relationships, long term difference making and just good old fashioned friendship.

Sunday afternoon we went to Jeff and Anita and Hannah Good's house. We swam in their pool and ate their food. Cool people- Jeff and Anita and Hannah.

We started the 4th off with the guys (Jahred, Isaiah and me) meeting up with our friend David Rebello and he opened up the construction yard where his dad works so we could play. Awesome. I got to drive this giant forklift and was going to do great things with it, but I stalled it out and then it had some trouble on the re-start.

With testosterone blazing we picked up the Hull gals and headed to our church picnic where we ate more food and did some frog catching and game playing.

Then we cruised home for a siesta (yeah!!!) and some down time before heading out to the world famous, internationally renowned Bel Air 4th of July parade. The good news and bad news about the parade can be summed up as follows - if needed our county has lots of fire trucks!

Then on to ice cream, grab a pizza pie and then headed back downtown for some fireworks! Bel Air always puts on a fine 4th of July display and they did not disappoint this year either. We found a GREAT and top-secret spot to watch them too. It's so great that we saw them all and were close enough to feel them. It's so secret that there was only 4 other people there around us watching the fireworks. In fact, it's so great and top-secret (with great parking and no crowds and no crazies) that if I weren't leaving I wouldn't tell anyone, so that we could go again and be the heroes who show only our friends the greatest spot ever. But because I'm leaving and am a particularly good American (in the spirit of celebrating our country), I'll be happy to reveal the top-secret location of the best fireworks watching spot ever to whoever either gives me the most money or the best sob-story about why I should let them in on my secret.

Let the bidding begin now!