Fourth of July 2013

★☆This year the blogger in me wanted to do something new and different, but the Mommy in me gave in to my kiddos who want to repeat their favorite traditions.

 I wasn't sure I was even up for a BBQ this year, but I couldn't let my sweet children (or our friends) down! ☆★

 

The red, white and blue drinks are tradition, but the fresh strawberry lemonade was new. 

The burlap banner was my inspiration, and I ran with that as my theme.I used burlap as my tablecloth and tried to keep that color in my decor. 

The children insisted that we couldn't skip the marshmallow sparklers, or jello parfaits.

I did make new Potato chip bags.

Strawberry Pie is also a tradition that couldn't be broken. 

But a Happy Birthday America cake was new, and so were the sugar cookies.

Burgers and Hot dogs were still on the grill, and the beans were on the stove.

 Potato salad

Cheese dip

and this year we added root beer floats

Even Kitty was patriotic.

 As well as our nail color ;)

After the BBQ we grabbed our picnic basket filled with snacks  and headed to our favorite fireworks spot with our wonderful neighbors.

It was another beautiful holiday!