Sunday, July 5, 2009

Family, Fun, Fireworks, and Food!!

Happy 4th of July!! We had a wonderful time celebrating the holiday together with family!

Jonathan is now eating baby yogurt--making a huge mess and loving every bite!!


Uncle Sam and Jackson played a few fun rounds of Chutes and Ladders

Mady took really good care of Joshua all afternoon!
Uncle Sam and his sweet girlfriend, Valerie! (Welcome to our blog, Val!!)

Firecracker fruit!! It rained all day and we weren't sure if we would see fireworks that evening, so we made firecracker fruit, just in case!! The kids loved it!!

Five cousins having dinner together! Jackson, Dominic, Jonathan, Joshua, and Madalyn

Flag cake---Jackson did all the decorating on this one!

The second 4th of July cake---that's me having fun playing around with fondant!

The rain stopped earlier in the evening and we were able to take the boys to the fireworks show in Batavia. It was a really fun time!!

Jackson and Joshua LOVED the fireworks, every boom was better than the one before!! Jonathan, the fabulous little guy that he is, slept through the whole thing! Amazing!!


Happy 4th of July!! We are so blessed to be living in a country such as ours! God Bless America!

1 comment:

chloe's clan said...

Love the cakes! I have tons of cake decorating stuff and occasionally like to go all out but I have never tried fondant. It would be fun to get back into it and learn the niffty tricks of the trade. I thought about taking a class at Michaels. Have you ever done that? Sounds like a blast to me. :)