Well, our 4th of July was a blast! We started off the day with our church's traditional 8:00 am 4th of July Breakfast and bike parade. We watched the scouts do the flag ceremony and then ate yummy pancakes, eggs and bacon with friends. After breakfast, the kids rode in the bike and scooter parade on their decorated vehicles. We always have so much fun watching this crazy parade and just pray that no one falls too hard! We escaped all injuries this year!
The Bateman's brought some of their fun show dogs, so KK was in heaven! They even brought a prarie dog in a big plastic ball! The animals were hit!
After breakfast we hung out at home and relaxed a little and then I started cooking for our backyard BBQ. Cherry Coke ribs, chicken curry salad, strawberry and feta cheese salad, baked beans, twice baked potatoes, grilled corn on the cob, watermelon punch, cupcakes and strawberry shortcake! My mom and I tend to cook for an army!
We ate outside in our backyard and the weather was perfect. Great food, great company... what more could we ask for?
After our BBQ we headed out to the Channel Island Harbor to walk around the street fair, see the boats and watch fireworks. It was a really pretty place to walk around and, of course, they were serving fabulous street fair food and drinks.
When people started finding places to watch the fireworks, we found a great spot right on the water's edge and set up our chairs there. It was so fun to snuggle up under our blankets, people watch and watch the boats come in and out of the harbor. Then right as the fireworks started, Dan delivered us hot bowls of clam chowder and we sat and ate chowder while watching the fireworks over the water. It was delightful!
