Date night and landscaping...

Friday night at the Naturals Ball Park is Fireworks night, so we decided to have a date night. Luckily I was off work, so I wasn't exhausted:) We started off the evening by going to the place called the Venecian Inn in Tontitown, it's Italian. Very good! I had spaghetti and meatballs and if my stomach was as big as my eyes, I would have eaten the whole plate!

William & I at the ballpark.

I love him!:)

We finally decided to revamp the landscaping in front of our house, it looked pityful before! When we moved into our house almost 4 years ago there was nothing here. After we lived here about 6 months, my mom came and planted flowers for my birthday. It was pretty at the time, until I went through nursing school and had no time to take care of it. Then, the shrubs died so we decided it was time for a revamp.

So, this is the before...

and this is the after!

Much better!

In the back are Japanese Boxwoods, then dark red lillies, then Vinca's. I love having some color in the front of our house!

RN

I took my state boards, NCLEX-RN, on July 1st and I PASSED! Here is a picture of my license that I got in the mail.

Since I passed, I got to go get my new name badge and start doing nursie things at work!

This is my last week training, next week I start working on my own. I am a little scared but very excited at the same time! I have been doing lots of things on my own for a few weeks now but I always have my preceptor as my back up. I have peace in knowing that I work with some great people who are very knowledgable about Dialysis. Should be fun!

I had to include these pictures of our pets, they are my babies!

Rylee loves playing in boxes.

Jack and I one night after dinner. He's such a momma's boy!

4th of July with the Fam!

4th of July weekend we went home for a visit with the Fam. Usually we stay home for this Holiday but decided to change it up this year.

Friday night we met up with 2 of William's cousins, who are brothers, and there wives.

This is Phillip Lewallen Sr., William Lewallen Jr., and Ray Lewallen Jr....see the pattern? I think it is so neat to carry on family names!

We ate dinner at one of our favorite BBQ places in Memphis, Corky's. This is William and I at dinner. Stefanie(Ray's wife) brought boas and crowns for she and I to wear since our birthdays were about a week apart.

Stef and I before dinner, I love it! Such total Diva's!:)

Saturday we spent the day with William's dad and our niece and nephew.

It was nap time, but we still had to watch the Little Mermaid before she could fall asleep.

This is Chris Jr., another family name to be carried on:)

Saturday night we went to a fireworks show in Collierville with William's cousins and there families. I didn't get one picture:( It was a great show! There were to people who jumped out of planes and parachuted in with fireworks on there feet and an American flag on there back. Pretty awesome!

Sunday we just chilled at William's dads house until it was close to dark, then we headed to Southaven to meet my brother to watch a fireworks show. It was better than the one the night before!

Lilly and I, I can't believe how big she is!

Joseph and I

A few days before we left a sweet friend of mine painted my toe nails with Zebra stripes! I loved it, to say the least! They were very festive for the 4th.

I love going to visit William's dad because he lives in the country. I lived in the country until I was about 8 years old. Loved it! Loved walking down the gravel road barefoot and not having a care in the world about a car coming. We lived next door to my cousins and my other cousins lived about 5 houses down and 2 of my great uncles lived across the street.

Maybe one day I will be back in the country and have a green thumb, I love veggies fresh from the garden. Here's a peek at the garden William's dad has. It's much smaller than usual, but he has cut back since the grandbabies have come along.

William's dad had a hummingbird feeder on his front porch, there were 4 hummingbirds that rotated feeding. I snapped quiet a few pictures and enjoyed watching them flap there wings so fast.

Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July celebrating our countries Independence. Such a special Holiday to me since my brother is deployed with the Army.