4th of July

We began the day late doing a little shopping and arriving around lunch time, that morning I gathered some Pinterest ideas and made a 4th of July playlist (which I somewhat annoyingly played all day) to get into the spirit.

The kids and I all made red, white, and blue fruit skewers and then ate them. I hoped they be a hit and I was SO right! Connor was insanely in love with the idea and came back a couple times to make another, which made dinner unnecessary for him which is probably how he planned it.

With squirt guns and splash bombs and a bucket of water in tow, we had a water fight that I wished I dressed more appropriately for. But it was a roaring hit!

She was on clean up duty, and she loved it.

The kids and I made straw rockets and shot them off at each other. But their attention spans weren't quite long enough to have everyone finish making them and shoot and reload them(which proved mildly tricky). So it was a quick winded success I'd say.

The false forecast rained our BBQ out (and pool plans), so we had good ole' fried chicken, biscuits and potato salad.

We watched Independence Day and I made Root Beer Floats for everyone.

My Mom made her famous flag cake, and while she did we talked about the story behind it. (She started as a kid 10 or so making it for the holiday, wanting it to be perfect with all 50 stars and all 13 stripes, and dyed cake layers in between, it was her thing.) It was delicious and decadent, heavy cream you are my hero.

Fourth of July ended with a firework show we watched from my parents deck through the trees.

I miss my Fourth of July's in Rexburg and my party sister, but we made Frederick's 4th of July with the Martin's pretty special too.