Our Fourth of July

For our Fourth celebration, we had Uncle Jeff and Aunt Shelby's family, and Uncle Brandon and Aunt Mindy's family with us. We had a great dinner: steak, potato salad, baked beans and a big yummy fruit salad. Then we gathered and Uncle Brandon taught us about three values that are on the penny: E Pluribus Unim (out of many, one), Freedom, and "In God We Trust." It was really good! Then Sr. D taught us about how Christ's atonement gave us freedom to act and not be acted upon unless we sin. And that if Christ gave us freedom, we should try to preserve it in our country. It was a very nice devotional that may not have happened if it wasn't that the 4th was a Sunday.

Then we had cake!!! Shelby made white cakes, cousin Rachel made cherry jello, cousin Jared poked holes in the cake and I poured the jello in. Once it had chilled in the fridge a bit, we cut the cake, squirted whipping cream on it and sprinkled it with blueberries and sliced strawberries. Emily added a flag toothpick to finish it off. It was as delicious as it looked patriotic!

We all went out and enjoyed Uncle Jeff's firework display (with a little of my own inserted in too). In Texas we can sure celebrate. We can buy stuff that shoots up in the air and explodes and Jeff had one that shot off about 90 small colorful explosions above us for our finale! Thank you Uncle Jeff!