Creative Overload

Anyone creative will probably know exactly what I mean by creative overload which is what I'm having today. The annual company cookout for one of my dad's companies is in a couple weeks and while I've been playing with a few ideas here and there, today I have been online pricing out things and deciding where to buy stuff. I have had a creative brainstorm for the past 5 hours and now have it all plotted out. The wheels started turning in my head and they just kept on going. I'm so excited to do this but really need to get moving because I have a lot to do in the next couple weeks!

We're doing a patriotic theme this year which my mom loves, she's very into patriotic themes, it's even how she has her pool area decorated. Over the past few years I've been able to get her to branch out onto other themes and we had a lot of fun doing it. A couple years ago we did a luau and went all out with the tropical decor. Our employees even got into it with their attire, donning Hawaiian shirts, sandals and straw hats. Last year was the 40th anniversary of dad's other company and we used that as our theme, concentrating on the company colors and elements of the business. I had a lot of projects for it including a moss dump truck and a tractor and loader made out of flowers, among other things. If you're interested in seeing last years pictures, click here.

In addition to it being a patriotic theme we're also incorporating "support the troops" into it. I mentioned this to my mom and my specific reason behind it and she was all for it, which I knew she would be. One of our employees has been in North Carolina for training since May and will be deployed to Iraq in August. I give him and all of our other troops a lot of credit for doing what they do. They risk their lives every day for our country, that's both noble and brave. I wanted to honor him by doing this so in a way it will feel as if he's with us, I know we'll all be thinking of him. Hopefully his deployment will go by as quickly as possible and he'll be coming home to his family and friends. Until then, he'll be in our thoughts. God bless him and the rest of our troops.