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<\/a>Photo here was shot in a local Apex restaurant. I love the atmosphere of the place (& the food). Since July 4th is around the corner, I decided to share this creative American flag piece of artwork made from softballs–American all around:)<\/p>\n

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Our family’s planning a Pa. trip again this 4th.<\/div>\n
I’m excited. I can’t think of much more I enjoy than traveling & visiting the Mc Clan with my clan:) Kelley will not be able to go, so that is a big negative:( But hopefully she’ll have fun doing her artistic thing in her sweet bungalow while we’re gone.<\/div>\n
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Since Skye’s interning in Ky. this summer we’re planning to rendezvous with her in Wytheville, Va. A friend of friends has agreed to let her park her car at their home while she travels with us.<\/div>\n
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Last year over the 4th we traveled to Pa. also, minus Seth & Kelley (who were visiting best buds in Fla.), so it’ll be nice to have Seth along this year. Since Keith’s mom & dad are 90 & 88, we NEED to make extra trips to visit them. And we’ve found being in Pittsburgh during the BIG weekend is so cool:)<\/div>\n
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Keith’s mom’s family, the Brown’s, have a July 4th family picnic where we get to catch up with many of the McFarland\/Brown relatives:)<\/div>\n
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An annual car show in Keith’s home town of New Castle the same weekend brings together hundreds of fans, including cousins, who drive their prized cars downtown & park them to be inspected & admired. Keith & I have been once before & hope to go again this year.<\/div>\n
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We’ll visit Mom & Dad who live right in the middle of Pittsburgh as often as we can. We never stay too long–it’s tiring for everyone in a place that’s a beehive of activity. Mom has moved into her own apartment in the same facility since Christmas, so it’ll be interesting to see her “new” place.<\/div>\n
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Last year Keith, Cameron, Skye, & I watched fireworks up “close & personal” along the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. The skyline is beautiful & the display was spectacular:) Hope to do that again:)<\/div>\n
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A change this trip; we’re staying at a motel between Keith’s sister’s house in Beaver Falls & his parents in Pittsburgh. We have no idea how it will be, but thought we’d try it. In the last 4 years since Mom & Dad moved to the retirement home in the city, Keith’s sister has graciously found friends who open their homes to us while they are away on vacation. It’s been such a blessing & we’ve been so grateful, but, not always ideal for everybody. <\/div>\n
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At this point we’re contemplating whether to take one car or two. One car is small for 5 adults, even Cameron’s Subaru, but two cars seems too much?? Just not sure. (And Skye’s Neon is not one that should go!)<\/div>\n
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Praying our days spent together will bring sweet times & precious memories:)<\/div>\n
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Thank you LORD for life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness:)<\/div>\n
God bless America:)<\/div>\n
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Photo here was shot in a local Apex restaurant. I love the atmosphere of the place (& the food). Since July 4th is around the corner, I decided to share this creative American flag piece of artwork made from softballs–American all around:) Our family’s planning a Pa. trip again this 4th. I’m excited. I can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}