4th of July, Updates, Pictures!

How was everyone's 4th of July? If you don't celebrate it, it's totally cool. I didn't light fireworks, but I did drink wine coolers and had pizza on the balcony with my mom. We were able to see the fireworks from our balcony and she even lit a fire in this firepit thingy. I don't know what it's called.

The first looks a lot bigger than it actually was lol But I sat out there for a bit and I seriously enjoyed the warm feeling from the fire.

I'm not much a fan of fireworks anymore. I think even when I was younger I never liked the loud sound, but I did like sparklers, the same as I do now. They're pretty! My older sister is the opposite lol She likes the loud fireworks and she likes mixing fireworks together (the same fireworks in the same bottle and lighting them at once). Of course I think it's dangerous, so I stay indoors or I'll shout at her from inside the house lol Like "Don't do that! You'll burn off your eyebrows if you do"

This picture was taken on the 3rd. Seriously people were popping fireworks two days in advance where I live lol But yesterday I went for a very long walk with my mom and nephew. We ended up walking around the neighborhood because my mom wanted my nephew to take a nap, but he didn't seem to want to do so. While walking I spotted some very beautiful things:

 It's an apple tree!!

It doesn't seem very exciting until you realize where this is. It's on someone's front lawn! This might be common for for people, but I've never seen one on someone's front lawn before. I see sakura trees (cherry blossom trees), but never apple trees. So I snapped a few pictures. I hope the owners don't mind that I was gawking at their tree lol

A lot of the houses had done their lawns very nicely.

 I didn't mean to snap a photo of their car.

I really enjoyed seeing this here! My heart was gonna explode, even though it's something so simple xD

It was a little warm during the walk and I wish I brought a bottle of water, but unfortunately I didn't think that far ahead lol Eventually it cooled down, but don't the clouds look amazing! The clouds always look a lot closer than they actually are. It really gives the feeling of depth and makes me understand that we're living in a 3 dimensional space. Most people wouldn't even care for this kind of thought,right? lol

On the way back we came across a park! My nephew really loves the slides, so he played on that for a while. My mom put him on the swings, but he doesn't enjoy the swing. Eventually two other women joined, a Granny and her two grandsons and a lady and her daughter. Her daughter said "hi" to my nephew, and he responded back by saying "hi" and waved to her lol I thought it was the cutest thing and I wanted to hug him so badly. He's only 1 and is still learning to speak, so he can't say much. But it's amazing that he understood her when she said hi. Yeah, I feel very dorky at time over the smallest things.

So the girl tried to play on the slides with him but he couldn't keep up.

After the park, we started to head back and I came across these. I'm sure my mom probably tired of me stopping to snap photos, but flowers are a must when I go out lol

They're very pretty flowers, right? Anyway, he didn't stay up much longer. We barely made it five minute away before he was down for the count lol

Also, speaking of flowers the day before yesterday I finally decided to plant a gift I got for Christmas. It's an Amaryllis flower.

Of course I enjoyed the gift, but up until now, I was afraid to plant it out of fear it would die. At the moment it isn't much, but in the end it will be beautiful like this:

Although the process may be long, I enjoy watching plants/flowers sprout! Because they go from being these tiny green buds into something that is close to looking like a plant. It's amazing! And what's even more is that I grew the plant...okay the plant grew itself, but I helped it out. :) The power of creation!

That's all for now. I hope you enjoyed the pictures. I decided to add them to not just keep slamming words into your face lol

Mon