The 4th of July (a week later)

I am an incredibly unmotivated and lazy person. I have been putting off writing about the 4th of July all week. But I was kindly reminded this morning by my awesome husband that it was my turn to blog AND it had been a week(or longer) since our last blog. So here I am. The sad thing is that I really love the idea of blogging. I have 100 ideas that I would love to blog about. But when it comes down to it I have a really hard time with the delivery. I think I slept through english writing. I don't write well. I have a terrible time putting my thoughts to words. So hang in there with me- I think the more I do it the better I will be.

We started our independence day by getting up at 6:30am to go to a flag raising ceremony. It took place at a good friend of Jareds. He was in the army for years and years, has since retired and he does this ceremony every year. It was a different experience for me, but it was wonderful. There was a bunch of songs performed and a couple of talks and then a little breakfast right after. It was a nice way to get in the mood for a day with family and friends to celebrate our independence. After that we went to Mom and Pop Terrys to get the ingredients we needed to cook for the BBQ later that day. Jared was in charge of making some yummy baked beans that we got from his bbq book. They were delicious! In the process of cooking those we discovered that our oven doesn't really work very well. After 45 minutes in the oven they were barely even warm. Fortunately we had started cooking early enough just in case something like that happened. So we threw them in the crockpot and headed back to the Terrys to eat some good food.


Jared was also in charge of grilling the corn. He found a really cool way to do it. You grill the corn and then put mayo, mozzarella, and magic dust(spices) on it. We found the more cheese the better. I'm not sure they are very good for my diet, but I was a good sport and ate them anyway. Ok, so no one really had to twist my arm. What can I say- corn is really good that way. And it was a holiday. So I'm good. Right?

After a few hours of eating and having a wonderful time visiting with the family we headed over to Mom and Dad Martins for the Stadium of fireworks. Their front yard is perfect for watching them. Even though we were totally stuffed we couldn't resist the cookies and other goodies my parents had out for everyone.

Overall I would say it was one of the best 4ths I've had. We had a really nice time with our wonderful families and each other.