Independence Day

I hope you all had a fun day yesterday! Ours was a marathon celebration...

We began the day cleaning Tom's house in our Che shirts (they were given to us by a boy in the ward after his trip to Guatemala). Tom was very upset with us wearing these shirts given the holiday we were celebrating. Really we just didn't want to clean in other clothes, but it was funny to bug Tom (who also has a Che shirt, along with a Ho Chi Minh shirt, and a Mao shirt so he can't talk).

Because Tom has a pool we now celebrate all parties here, so everyone gathered about noon and we went swimming, then we had some hamburgers and hot dogs (how American is that?), and swam some more. Then someone decided we should go see a movie but the kids wanted to see Ratatouille and the men wanted to see the new Die Hard movie. We ended up finding showings that started 10 minutes apart so the guys and Ashley went to see Die Hard and the rest of us saw Ratatouille. We ended the evening with swimming, pizza, classic Nintendo, and root beer floats. I don't think we would've swam as much as we did if it weren't for the kids. They really like being in the water, so it makes it more fun for everyone else.

On another note, this week really introduced me to Arizona heat. It was in the triple digits all week, mostly around 110. Yesterday it got up to 117!!! I don't really know how to describe that heat. It's just hot, really hot. Luckily Tom has a covered porch and Roy brought over an extra canopy to cover more of the patio so we didn't get too hot!