Happy July 4th!

Here at The Shoe, we are thanking God for our freedom and for those who have bravely fought for it.  We are so grateful.

In honor of the holiday, my babies created the above Fourth of July masterpiece.  Which is not only beautiful, but it’s also delicious!  Nana and Dee came over today to install some much needed blinds around the house (here’s what it looked like in our living room.  I think they could have squeezed in another ladder..what do you think?:

We are hoping that by putting blinds up in the living room, we will be able to reduce our crazyhuge power bill.  The blinds in the bathroom were installed at the neighbors request). 

BUT BACK TO THE CAKE.  So, Dee comes in the door with a 50 (or 10.  Not sure which) foot ladder to hang blinds, and Nana, in typical fashion, comes in with A Project.  The cake, complete with ingredients and instructions.  I love that woman.  So while mommy got to sit on the couch and eat bonbons, Nana and the kids made this delicious 4th of July cake…slicing strawberries, counting blueberries and sneaking tastes when Nana was not looking.  They had a blast!  And the cake?  WAS SO YUMMY!…I mean..is so yummy…because…there’s still leftovers.  Yeah.  We totally did not eat the whole thing already.  Ahem.  Here are some action shots:

 

Tonight, since Matt doesn’t have to work tomorrow, we decided to go down to a friends house to watch some fireworks they were setting off.  The kids have never been able to stay up late enough to see the fourth of July fireworks so we decided to bend the bedtime rules (just this once!)  We headed up there around 8:30. Unfortunately, by 8:45, Mommy and TheBen had hitched a ride home on a neighbor’s golf cart to get the boy away from all the scariness.  Turns out Ben is DEATHLY afraid of both loud noises and bright colors.  Fireworks?  Notsomuch for the kid.  He absolutely freaked out at the first big ‘pop’ and it was downhill from there.  Mommy kindly took him home to his nice warm bed and quiet room where he passed out after 35 seconds of ‘rockrock’.  Poor kid…maybe next year he will be ready. 

Gotta run now…Matt and the other kids should be home any minute and I’m dying to know what they thought of all the fun…Happy Fourth!