Welcome to Boom Town pre boom town

I totally believe when one door closes, a better door opens or the door you are meant to walk through opens.  We had a big major door close in our face this week. This was a door that we saw being shut a little over a year ago, but kept our foot stuck in so it couldn't.  This week they knocked our foot out and slammed it shut.  Neither of us are surprised, although we are both very hurt by it.  We have always believed in community, in investing our money here and not elsewhere, and we are being forced to go elsewhere.  Sometimes we pay twice what we would pay going somewhere even a town over just to support small businesses here.  We don't feel the support right now and it honestly hurts.  We did find a new door, and I know I am being super vague here, but we've knocked, they've cracked it, and we are working on opening it fully.  As soon as I know something one way or the other, I will update here fully.  Just keep sending those good thoughts, good vibes, prayers, and good juju our way.  We are not done fighting, we believe in our little business, and we feel that there are many in our corner that want us to succeed.  

On to the week!  Three runs, one work out, and lots of cleaning at the house getting ready for the 4th.  If you aren't from this area, 4th of July is huge in our little town because we become known as BoomTown!  We have the largest hand fired fireworks show in the county and it's 31 minutes of pure awesomeness.  Check out the pyro crew's Facebook page here.  They have several videos that are just amazing.  My favorite part of the show is purple rain and the shirts this year for the show are purple rain themed!  

We welcome our friends and family into our home and have a whole day of awesome fun.  I can't wait even though they are saying we may get rain this year.  The storms held off last year till we were done and back to the house.  Praying for that this year as well as the forecast doesn't look great at this point. 

No racing this weekend for the ginger racer, but we did have a busy weekend.  First up, we headed back the K for a Royals game with Andrew's buddy Cole.  We got seats in the outfield, and they were perfect.  We were close to all of the food vendors, the kid's activities, and in homerun territory.  We saw an amazing game with Salvy hitting a long dinger and the kids got to have a great time exploring ALL of the field.  They had fireworks post-game and the storms stayed south of us only spitting a little bit of rain as we were walking back to the car.  The best part was as we were walking in a guy that was dressed as a staff member asked if we were excited about the game.  We talked for a minute, and I told him that it was Cole's first game.  He said make sure that Cole was in his seat for the 5th inning. I figured he was just going to be on the jumbotron or something.  Well around the middle of the fourth they came over (Cole and Andrew were up playing) and they brought him not only a very nice bobble head but also a fanny pack and a certificate.  

We were all blow away and Cole was so excited when he came back to discovery his goodies!  

The next night we decided to be idiots again and have a late night by going to the dirt track.  Who knew we had one only 1 hour away in Clay Center????  All of our racing buddies decided to race there and it was so nice to see all of them once again.  The Soares family, the Beckers, the wood's family, the Dougans, and the Canadays all raced, and we got to cheer everyone on.  It was so cool to see little Brex win in Jr Sprints, to see Blainey be aggressive and move up multiple times in restrictor and to see Hank, Dustin, and Micah tear it up in A class and in non-wing.  We went home exhausted but with big old smiles on our faces.  Our cups were full with racing family love.  

Have a great week y'all! I am looking forward to a 4 day weekend and my favorite holiday of all!