Wow.

Wow.  

This has been quite the week. Very stressful, and sadly mournful.

My Uncle died last Sunday night, the 22nd of July.

It has been really rough.  We just found out today that he basically died from organ failure.  His spleen shut down on Saturday, then  apparently his kidneys were having trouble and there were blood clots in his lungs. 

It was so sad.

It all started in April 2011 when his intestines were ruptured.  So he was literally filled with shit.  He got life flighted, well tried to fly him.  They had to get a second helicopter because the first one was broken.  Got him over to UH and cleaned him out, opened uhiim up.  then they kept performing rinses on him to help keep the area clean, and as things began to calm down, they were able to rinse more of the nooks and crannies

From then on they kept doing some different procedures to help keep him healthy and to begin to get ready to reassemble him.

June 25thhe finally underwent the operation to put him all together!  and sadly it didn't work out. :(

So my family and I have been hanging out with our cousins and my aunt.  helping them thru everything. They really appreciated it.

It is kinda fun learning more about them.  They're really fun to hang out with. :)
 

Whoa.

Wouldn't that stink if that were true for humans?

Celebrating the America's Independence

 At the beginning of this month, 'Murca celebrated its Independence Day!  :)  aka the Fourth of July.

 My celebration began even before the month did! haha...

The 30th of June, we had our family party.  Which was very well attended, over 100 people.
There were some fun times to be had, like volleyball.  And some times that were fun to make fun of.  Like my 40+ year old cousin  drinking so much and then vomming.  Which was mildly hilarious, I thought.  But life goes on.  :)

Sunday was a pretty chill day,  Just  hung out and  cleaned up  Then Later in the day, Cassidy and I ended up going to a shopping center that was having a celebration for the Fourth of July where the Cleveland Pops were playing!

While trying to figure out where to sit, we saw a line of people going into this fenced off area with a bunch of chairs inside of it.  we thought it was first come first serve.  After having waited a bit, we finally got to the front of the line... where they asked for our bracelets. Which we didn't have one.   womp.  But they but us off to the side, because there would be plenty of chairs left over after all the bracelet people got in.  Once the front half was full, we were led around and entered to the seating area behind the stage, where we got an awesome behind the stage look at the orchestra.

haha...  But it was cool watching everyone play in the percussion section.  :)

oh!  the reason they were passing out bracelets is because they had a goal along with everyone enjoying the Pop's........  they wanted to break the world record of most people wearing sunglasses at night!   So we got a pair of sunglasses.

During all these songs you can sing along with ( you know those different partiotic ones)  And wore them while we sang.  For 10 minutes.  Ending with God Bless America.  So we wore them the whole time

But During the time they played, they recognized the different people who have served, or are serving, in what I thought was a clever manner.   They had a melody where they played each of the branches song, (Navy - Anchors Aweigh; Air Force - Army Air Corps; Marine - The Marines' Hymn; Coast Guard - Semper Paratus;  Army - The Army Goes Rolling Along) and had the people of each branch stand as their song was played.  Ironically, the guy next to me was in the Air Force, and he had this awesome shirt on.  It said all over the back, Who is John Galt?

I was so stoked.  It was so amazing.

For those of you don't know, its a quote from one of my favorite books, Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.

 But yes, the Orchestra was so amazing to listen to.  I loved listening to them.

Afterwards, when they were shooting off fireworks, it was amazing.  They were literally being shot over our heads.  So all the cardboard packaging rained down upon us, and Cassidy caught a Piece!

This is Cassidy with her piece of Firework she caught!


It was so amazing!  And they had music playing along with the fireworks, so that just made it so much more fun to sing along with. 



On The actual fourth of July, I had made cupcakes out of funfetti mix and frosted them.  We brought the two boxes of cupcakes into the hospital and shared them between the 3rd and 4th floor nurses.  They really enjoyed them.  We hung out with my dad there for a long while, then left at like 730 and went home.  My mom stayed and watched fireworks with  my dad and some nurses from an empty hospital room on the other side of the floor.  She had fun.  My brother, Jack, didn't want to go see them in our hometown.  I ended up going and finding Emma who was working a concession booth in the local park where the Fireworks were being held. Employees are not allowed to be in the building while the fireworks were being set off. So it worked out I had brought my blanket with me.  Emma and her co-worker ended up sitting with me and my blanket, finally relaxing after having to work all night with all those firework-watching people.

The fireworks were set off nicely,  it was fun to watch.  Then I ended up going home afterwards.

Overall it was fun times.

:)

 [wow, that took me forever to post]