Happy 4th of July

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

Independence Day is always filled with friends, family, barbecues, and fireworks! This year was no exception! We began the morning early at the church Pancake Breakfast, which was filled with people (despite the on and off rain storm that usually occurs on July 4th). My mom and Barry were in charge of it, being the Ward Missionaries, and were there from beginning to end, which wore them out for the rest of the day (until my mom had to go perform a show).

After the breakfast we got to relax a little bit and Jake made his first batch of chocolate chip cookies, basically by himself. They were some of the yummiest we've eaten yet! Rachel had spent the night at a friends house and they eventually woke up around 11am or so. I believe they ate breakfast at 1p.m. :-)

We headed over to a friend's house for a BBQ and enjoyed some time in the pool, eating lots of good food, playing pinball, billiards, and watching a repeat of the amazing Red Sox game that was on earlier that day.

The BBQ was really fun because I got to combine a couple of my worlds...some of my old theater friends were at the BBQ and it was fun catching them up on my new life and having everyone get to know each other.

We've also tried to make it our tradition to take a picture in front of the Citgo sign with whoever joins us. Wanna come with us next year?

We left the BBQ at about 9pm and headed into Boston. Ray has this great route he takes and we never hit any traffic, in or out of the city. We walked onto the Esplanade and had front row seats of the amazing fireworks display put on by the city of Boston and the Boston Pops. The Rascal Flatts were the guest artist this year and we had a blast. No rain this year so we were able to comfortably watch the show. We were hoping to get a kayak this year and watch them from the water, but it didn't work out. We'll try again for next year though! There are always lots of people out on the water, in canoe's, house boats, and kayak's. The music was of special selection, some good, some not so good, but the fireworks were loud and spectacular. We all had a good time and look forward to making this a family tradition!

I think Ray, Jacob, and I gave everyone a lovely singing show as a precursor to the fireworks production. We sang loud and proud for our country. "To thee I sing!"

This was our home made pizza night on Sunday and Jake making his tough guy face :-)

We hope everyone had a festive fourth of July....until next year.