Wow, look at me all posting so much in a week! I can't even begin to tell you how good it feels to have the last few months be over with! Way too much stress and things on our plate. Between doing major updates in the house (painting the main floor, carpet, new furniture), landscaping, Emma's accident and getting ready for Rachel's grad party, this has literally been Brad and I every night in June.
I am believing that the rest of 2019 is going to be amazing!
And to get that off to an amazing start is my second favorite holiday, July 4th. The 4th is always a super special day for Brad and I, as it is the day he proposed to me, at our local parade. We were married on July 11, so July is always a special month for me.
I especially love all the red, white and blue decor. I have a huge bin that I haul out every year and of course add more things.
The only new thing I added this year was this tiered tray from Hobby Lobby which we used for the cupcakes a t Rachel's grad party. I still need to tweak a few things, but love it!
We always head into our town on the 3rd for our church festival. The festival started out very small, maybe a few hundred people and has grown to over 20,000 people now. It's kind of sad though because we don't go up for long anymore as it's just too many people.
Back when we lived in town, we would have all of our friends come over for a fish fry on the 3rd and then we'd walk up town for all the festivities. We would hire a babysitter to watch all the kiddos, some years there would be 8 kids! I seriously don't know how we did it though. Then we'd be up by 6:30 to start making a huge breakfast for everyone then walk up town for the parade. We would be exhausted by the end of the day. And that was with little kids!
Funny that the girls still love to go to the parade, that is one thing we'll never be able to give up!
Since we live outside of town, we don't have the 3rd festivities anymore, but we do have everyone over in the afternoon on the 4th for swimming and food!
We love finding new snacks and apps to make. Rachel wants spinach artichoke dip this year and we'll have the meat and cheese tray again and rice krispy bars. I'm loving all the red, white and blue charcuterie boards I'm seeing, so I might whip one of those up to!
When the girls were smaller, we enjoyed all the fun crafts...
Citronella candles
Uncle Sam faces
Cotton swab fireworks
I do miss doing these fun crafts, I can still get Alayna to make some stuff with me, which is great!
Hope you all have an AMAZING and safe 4th of July!!
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