Happy Independence Day!
So this week was independence day. I got the day off of course (although I was on call but didn't get called in so that's a win). We had a good day just staying at home this year. We were going to go to Texas but Braylee ended up having a Softball state tournament this weekend in Alexandria so we ended up staying home and going to go to Texas next weekend. I smoked some ribs and we had the Missionaries over for dinner and after dinner fireworks.
Then I was able to start marinating some jerky to put on early Friday morning before Braylee and I left for her Softball tournament in Alexandria.
We had a great time on the trip but unfortunately they lost both games to start and our weekend was cut short. Lydia was supposed to come up on Saturday afternoon and spend Sunday and Monday with Braylee and I was going to come back but they didn't end up making it very far, so instead the girls got to go out to lunch and hang out at the pool all afternoon Saturday and Braylee and I were home by later Saturday night. We had a good time despite the weekend being cut short. We got up there early on Friday and were able to go out to Chic-fil-A where Braylee got her favorite, fries and a chocolate shake. It was funny that I put the chic-fil-a into my google maps and it brought me to a mall, so we went into the mall food court for the lunch. Malls seem to be going out it's sad because they were so big when I was a kid but now walking through this mall half of the stores were closed and the mall was pretty dead. We had a good time though. After this we went and got checked into the hotel we stayed at and then headed to the ball park. The first game was a blow out, this team they played was good, really good. Girls were a little down after this. Braylee and I headed back to the hotel and got a good night rest and were back the next morning for game two, after stopping for some PJ's on the way to the park. This game was much better overall, they went down early 9 to 2 but then the girls woke up and started playing their game and came back to tie it up 10 to 10 and went into three extra innings all tied up. In the end it was sad the umpire made a questionable interference call the negated an important out and the girls lost 11-10 after 8 innings.
