I know I'm days late, but I just couldn't get myself motivated to download my photos and blog anything, so better late than never!
We started out our Independence Day festivities with a pancake breakfast at the church, which included
a flag-raising by the Boy Scouts,
the children singing a patriotic song (Maren's right in the center in a white shirt),
and a first for us, a bike parade! We only found out about the bike parade the day before, but thanks to the internet and my crafting stash, we put together some pretty darn cute entries! Maren's scooter sported
Patriotic Pom-Poms made from Target bags on her handlebars, a
cool calligraphy medallion, and red tissue festooning from
Shara.
Porter's wagon was decorated with
Bethany Lowe tissue garland,
two more calligraphy medallions, a pair of flags, and the ingenious
hand-painted sheet music bunting that I received a few years ago in a swap with
Cheryl.
I LOVE how the wagon turned out! This is the back. I printed out the Martha Stewart medallions and glued them to cardboard cake boards that I had spray-painted silver, then tied them to the wagon (and Maren's scooter) with red, white and blue striped ribbon.
That afternoon we hit the pool, then came home to meet some friends who were stopping in for the night on their cross-country move. We packed up the wagon and a picnic and headed to a nearby town to enjoy their festivities.
I had fun packing some of our picnic goodies in one of my
vintage metal picnic baskets. It was a good excuse to bring out some vintage printed tea towels, thrift store silverplate, my
red-and-white polka dot post-Valentine's clearance plates, and my
estate sale vintage patriotic paper napkins.
It all looked so cute in the decorated wagon, and it was handy too--it would have been heavy to schlep all that stuff from the parking lot!
The weather was just perfect and we enjoyed a fun evening eating our picnic, visiting with our friends and enjoying some of the best fireworks I've ever seen. There were actually fireworks that spelled out U S A--how do they do that? Marvelous.
It was a wonderful celebration on one of my top 3 holidays!
They did? You couldn't see the USA from our angle. It must have been the ones we thought were swirls? They were cool fireworks and even though we got stuck in that wonderful line of traffic our spot was a great location. We were above the launch site and got a perfect view of them and since we were on the road we were able to get out before the traffic got too bad. Might have to keep that spot in mind for up coming years. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the wagon and scooter -- looks like you had a fun day!
ReplyDeleteOh....one of the things I miss most about my old hood is the kiddie 4th parade...I guess they are both too old anyway now.....wah!
ReplyDeleteHow did I miss this post? What a fun day you had - your kiddos are darling and their wagon was great!
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