Happy July!

It is definitely a happy July for me (Allison), yesterday was my last day at my current job! I have decided to go back to work at Rockwall High School as the assistant athletic trainer. I truly believe that God has equipped me to work with high school students on a daily basis and has given me the desire to do so. So, I took the month of July off to finish some stuff around the house, go on a mission trip and spend some time with my sister. August 3rd will be my first day back at RHS.

Ok, enough about that. It is July 4th weekend, and Kevin got Monday and Tuesday off! As I just explained I have the whole month off, we waited too long to plan a short trip but we chose to make the best of our weekend by participating in many of the local events. Today's event was a street fair and car show in downtown Garland. Let me remind you that our blog title gives you and idea of what Garland is like, we did not have very high expectations, and we were correct in our judgment.

There were about six food booths, one had corny dogs, which was our choice of course. If you haven't had a corny dog in Texas you haven't had a corny dog, we specialize in fried foods, you know. Which leads me to the other food choice of ours, fried cheesecake. I know that sounds terrible (or good, depending on who you ask) but it is really like a cheesecake burrito, it has a crispy shell with cheesecake in it. However, our other choice of fried foods are fried twinkies, fried oreos and fried Snickers. And those are just like you think, dipped in batter and deep fried! MMM, I can feel the weight going straight to my hips just talking about it.

Well, the car show was pretty puny. We have been spoiled by big car shows in California, but as any good McNeely would, we looked at every single car. I liked the Amphicar, you know the kind of car that can drive on the street and float in the water, Kevin liked the BelAire. We could hardly believe that there was not one Mustang, which made Kevin very sad. He is convinced that he needs to get his Mustang (which is being "stored" in Ross's backyard) and put it in a car show. He thinks people would be very impressed.

Tomorrow Garland is hosting a picnic at the park a block away form our house. There will be slip'n'slides for the kids, free watermelon, wheelbarrow races and a band. We will probably go there for a little while before we head out to Sabine Creek Ranch. We will celebrating with the members of Cross Creek Cowboy Church. Yes, you read that right. In Texas there are Cowboy Churches where people show up in there wranglers and boots and sometimes (I'm not lying) ride their horses to church. So, we'll let you know how that goes tomorrow!