Independence Day....

The mother in law has been begging for awhile (well, since they've been in their new house) to take a family photo on the front porch. We took advantage of a visit from grandma and grandpa to do just that... though we obviously didn't prepare ourselves very well since we were all in our post dinner grubbies and messy hair. The four year old niece was not very cooperative, as she was convinced my camera on the tripod was a telescope and she wanted to see the moon... to heck with taking pictures!

No, we are not short people, my brother in law is just a giant, and of coarse, you can't have a family photo without the dog!

digi kit by me, word art by Bethany

We had a good day.... steak, dutch oven potatoes, corn on the cob, homeade icecream, and then beautiful fireworks in town. The only mishap was remembering the watermelon the husband stuck in the freezer the night before and forgot about. We let it thaw out for awhile then cut it open, ate a bit of it (not so good frozen), and left it sitting on the island while we went off to party. We came home from fireworks at 11:00 p.m. to watermelon juice all over the kitchen floor. Talk about a sticky mess! You know it's bad when I actually can't WAIT to mop the floor. Live and learn!

Tonight, we're doing our own fireworks show in the front yard. Hopefully we won't light anything on fire like the people through the mile (we've BTDT before with illegal fireworks ourselves). EEK!