Happy July 4th!

We celebrated the 4th of July this year the traditional way - with food, family, and fun! The day before I made a special patriotic dessert pizza for our Sunday treat, so we took some pics. And I realized I've been avoiding the camera (by staying behind it instead of in front of it!) so I made Dan take a picture of my growing "baby bump"-

Here I am at 22 weeks

And here's the patriotic pizza!

Can you tell it was a hit?

Yep, we finished it off in one night

The next day, the 4th, we got all ready in our red, white and blue. Natalie and Nathan were by far the best dressed so they had to show it off of course!

Yay for the 4th!

We went to the Bischoff's for a fun family BBQ that afternoon...

The Grandma's relaxing inside

While the guys enjoyed the heat outside

Uncle Michael grilled up some yummy burgers and hotdogs!

The cousins stayed cool in the pool


Then later it was time to feed the chickens...

if only they wouldn't run away!

And after all that hard work it was time for dessert!

Patriotic Trifle with strawberries and blueberries - needless to say there were no leftovers!

(looking over this post I realize it is mainly food-oriented, sorry about that! Can I just blame it on the pregnancy?? But I must say that the food really was very good!)

We are so thankful to live in this country and be able to share this time with our family.

It was definitely a 4th to remember!