Today I am Thankful for: The Madison Street Festival!

First off, this will probably be my last blog post until at least Thursday, I would guess. Why, you may ask? Because, I am getting all four of my wisdom teeth out at 10:00 AM on Monday morning. I don't know how the anesthesia and medications will make me feel, so I'm guessing that I won't write until Thursday unless I am miraculously doing really well afterwords. And, also guys, I'm really nervous about the whole getting put under thing, so, if you would remember me in your prayers on Monday morning, that would be great! Feel free to email me this week or text me, or call me, or whatever. I'm sure I'll get stir crazy. :)
On to my thankful theme! Today was the Madison Street Festival. For those of you who don't know, it's in down town Madison and it starts off with a parade with floats and fun things like that, and people throwing candy at you, and then the booths open and you get to go look at crafts and buy crafts and jewelry and things like that. There are also booths that display other people's art, and lots of businesses do a booth to get their name out there and they'll give away pens and stuff. My dad has a booth, so, I was there all day. It was very fun!! I blew up LOTS of balloons!! We blew up and gave away roughly 500 balloons. I'm not sure how many pens and magnets we gave away. But, I'd say it was a success! And we all went around to the other booths in our IHR T-shirts for advertising. Haha! And the Advanced Art Class from LCA had a booth and Katelyn sold some of her AMAZING clay jewelry and homemade cards. (I got a flower necklace that is beautiful. I can't wait to wear it!)
Ally and Ben came for a while, and we hung out with them, and Eric came for a while and we all hung out together, and Jacksyn came for a while also and me and her just hung out together. That was a lot of fun! We looked at all the fun booths and oohed and aahed over the cute baby things and pretty jewelry and things like that. And Sarah was there, I gave her a bunch of hugs. Haha! And the McCoy's were there, so of course, Adam and Andrew poked me, and I gave Mrs. McCoy a hug and visited for a while. That was fun. :) And Leah and Chloe were there because Hudson had to work at our booth, so I got to snuggle and kiss my little niece for quite a bit today. It was so much fun! Plus, I tried fresh-squeezed lemonade for the first time today, and it was DELICIOUS!! I highly suggest trying it sometime, if you haven't already. For real. It was amazing!
And, that was the extent of the Street Festival without me rambling on for a million pages. :) I don't have any pictures unfortunately. You'll just have to use your imagination!
Quick update on Aaron. I have gotten three letters this week! Most of their contents were not about him, but I did get some information! He said they got their woodland camis with their names on them. (That's one of their uniforms if you don't know.) This is a big deal. Having their names on them. By now they've gone 2 months being a nobody. Being called recruit and loser and other bad names by their DI's and fellow recruits. So, having a bit of an identity is a good thing! He also said he likes going to church there. He said he never learns anything new, but the messages are usually good. Apparently he has quite a few friends! This was quite a shock to me, because I hadn't heard of any until a few days ago. Hahaha! But, I am glad he has friends. And he had pre-qual for rifle range at some point this week, and he's very excited about going to the range. That's about it! You all need to come to the Madison Street Festival next year!
Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek."