4th of July

This year, Independence Day fell on a Wednesday. It's very strange to get one day off in the middle of the week. Wednesday night felt like a Sunday night and Thursday felt like a Monday to me. Luckily, they weren't!

A friend of ours had some people over to her house to grill and play games outside, so we went over. It was HOT! So hot that when we were loading up our truck with our grill, I had to go inside twice because I was getting light headed. Luckily, our friend had a baby pool, we brought a beach ball that sprays water, another friend brought a sprinkler and we had a few tarps to put down as a slip n slide! And honestly, I don't know who had more fun on the slip n slide - the adults or Owen. He was the only kid there, but had a BLAST!! But so did all the adults, pretending to be kids again : ) Of course, I was unable to participate in the slip n slide since falling to the ground and sliding on my belly would be very frowned upon right now, but I got to take some pictures and spray everybody with the hose.

Owen's maiden voyage on the Slip n Slide. Had to have Daddy go with him : )

Another time. Daddy goes down much faster! And Owen mostly just ran all the way down and slid the last few feet.

Going solo

He was always last : )

The adults that participated were all very sore the next day (and probably today and will be for awhile!).

We also played bags, beerbee (a frisbee game), grilled burgers and dogs and had some yummy dips. If you like Pickle Rolls and have never had Pickle Roll DIP, here is the recipe. Make it, enjoy it, and thank me later. YUM!

1 (8oz) container sour cream
1 (8oz) block of cream cheese, softened
Ham or corned beef, diced
Dill pickles, diced

I just combined the sour cream and cream cheese and cut up some Oscar Meyer ham into little squares and dill pickles into little chunks and just kept adding until I felt it was a good combo. I also added some of the pickle juice. Make it and refrigerate it for awhile before serving so the flavors settle into it. It's so good. Serve with crackers or chunks of plain bagels. I might just have to make another batch. "Pregnancy craving".

Anyway, there are fireworks in town tonight and tomorrow night, and I told Owen we could go tonight and he's so excited. He loves fireworks and if you ask him, he'll tell you he likes the green ones. : )