hAppY 4th oF JuLy!
Thanks to all who have made, and continue to make, the USA a free country.
This weekend was a busy one for us. On Sunday we had a wonderful church service in the park and then enjoyed barbecue, games, and fellowship. I love how out-going our new church is, it reminds me of the things I did as a child and I am really looking forward to this next weekend's camping trip with our life group. I'm sure I'll blog about it and post some pictures. :)
Later, after church-in-the-park, we went home to celebrate E's birthday since we had not been able to do it the previous weekend with Tom and C out of town. Our good friends also celebrated with us since we were marking their son's first birthday as well. I made cakes for both kids, so it was fun to diversify a bit and make both a "princess" cake and a "dinosaur" cake. Admittedly, it was a lot of work, but we have such wonderful friends who re-paid us with a delicious barbecued chicken dinner...complete with a spinach and strawberry salad straight from their garden. Wonderfully worth it.
BBQ chicken, garlic mashed potatoes and spinach/strawberry salad. Yum! |
the birthday kiddos |
E's princess cake. I used "ballerina barbie" since she had a molded top already. The cake was a 4-tier french vanilla with strawberry and butter-cream filling, and of course very pink butter-cream frosting. Dinosaur cake. This was a 3-tier chocolate cake with buttercream filling & frosting. Delish! the carnage.Today we headed to another barbecue for 4th of July...which was hot, hot, hot. I think it got up to 96 degrees or something this afternoon. I was happy to return home to air-conditioning for a bit and then head back out at 9pm to watch the variety of fireworks across town from the park across from us. It's a fun way to see everything "from above" and yet not have to deal with hordes of people (and traffic) afterwards. :) Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July weekend as well! {we were just happy to not be re-living last year's July 4th fiasco} |
Looks like you and Tom had a GREAT vacation! And my granddaughter is so beautiful!!! Thanks for the photos and the words... D
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