4th of July

                                       

For the 4th we ate breakfast 4th of July style with red, white, and blue pancakes (blueish pancakes with homemade strawberry syrup and whipped cream on top.  

After that I cranked out 36 jars of delicious freezer jam.  As I look back through my posts, I know that I have so many posts about the berries in the Northwest, but it just never gets old for me.  Year after year I am amazed at the color, juiciness, and taste.  So, so good!

Then in the afternoon we headed out on a friend's boat for a tour of the sound.  It was a fantastic trip.  Benjamin loved "driving" the big boat and then really driving the dingy all by himself.  Jacob was a bit of a crazy and didn't want to be contained on the boat.  He just couldn't be held still as there were too many fun things to explore. It was quite the boat and a fun afternoon.  The kids didn't even get to do their pop-its so we celebrated two days in a row by doing pop-its on the 5th.  It was a great 4th of July!

Then we had some friends back to our house for a BBQ.  The only picture that I have of that is of the cake that the kids helped me make for dessert.  It had run a bit by the time we actually ate it so we now know not to add our fruit so far in advance. 

After that I was exhausted and put the two littlest to bed while Dad and Benjamin headed to the park to do a few fireworks. 

The kids didn't even get to do their pop-its so we celebrated two days in a row by doing pop-its on the 5th.  It was a great celebrate of our country by our family!