Happy Birthday America!

We had a very small Fouth celebration on Sunday the 5th. We actually went out to eat with friends for lunch. Sunday evening we didn't go to church; Daddy's stomach was very upset-probably due to lunch. So instead the kids played outside for awhile. Then we got quick baths and went outside to do some fireworks. I had bought a small pack at Kroger that afternoon. NEVER again! Half of them wouldn't light! I will be taking them back to get my money back. Thankfully our neighbor across the street was doing some too; so we got to watch theirs. There was also quite a show of huge, professional type fireworks right in our neighborhood. Someone dropped a lot of money. We have plans to grill out brats this coming weekend, in late honor of the Fourth. What a strange Fourth. Oh well.

Of course the kids thought the fireworks were loud. So they sat with their ears covered the entire time.

4th of July

We had our 4th of July party last night. I would like to make it an annual party. We had a good time. We had 12 adults and 6 kids come. The day started out rainy and we were worried that it would be a huge damper. But it cleared up and semi-dried out enough for a good time. We ended up having it in our garage instead of our backyard, cuz the backyard was still kinda squishy from the rain. Daddy grilled out hot dogs and everyone brought a dessert and a side. We had some yummy food. One friend brought bacon wrapped green beans. Yummo! I'll have to get the recipe and post it sometime in the future.

The kiddies did bubbles and sidewalk chalk. K loved the bubbles. She had them everywhere! In her hair, on her clothes, in her mouth. She got her shirt so wet--you guessed it--she stripped it off right there in the front yard. That was the end of the bubbles. We went through a HUGE container of bubbles. After we got them cleaned up from that, they did the chalk. Daddy got the bright idea to do body outlines. That was a huge hit. Then Daddy did some fireworks once it started getting dusk. Then we got out the glow sticks. They were a huge hit, until C's broke all over him and he started glowing. He was more upset over the fact that it broke than that he was glowing. We tried to watch the town's fireworks from our yard but the wind wasn't blowing right. All in all I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Two friends stayed the night (cuz they live so far away). They left this morning after cinnamon rolls and checking books out of my "library" All in all it was a great 4th of July.