I hope that everyone is having, or has had, a wonderful holiday today! I just got back from having lunch with my Aunt Carol. cousin Alison and her husband Eric, my Aunt Nancy, and my cousins Callie and Caycle. We had some fantastic BBQ at Spring Creek, and then trekked over to the new theater at Valley View to see a matinee of Spiderman 2. What a fun movie! I haven't seen the first one, but thanks to Matt's very patient explanations of the comic hero world, I understood a lot of the back story without needing to ask. :)

I had a great time hanging out with my family. Eric entertained me with stories of the jumbo margarita maker he recently built - imagine a turkey fryer custom fitted with an exposed food disposal mechanism. It can make 24 gallons of the stuff at once! I found out Callie made the color guard at the high school that she'll be going to next year (gah!), of which I'm very proud. And Cayce told funny stories about the program at her school where her teacher trains seeing eye dogs in their classroom. It was fun just to hear what was going on in everyone's lives!

Now I'm at home looking forward to some R&R and maybe a little nap. Perhaps I'll be able to see some fireworks on the horizon if I climb up onto the roof! The trees in our neighborhood have gotten pretty tall, but we used to be able to catch some good ones.

Enjoy the rest of your holidays, everyone!