There are quite a few American families in our ward so we thought it would be fun to get together and celebrate the 4th of July. A family from Utah, the Riley's, hosted (he is in our Bishopric). They didn't have a barbecue (and its pretty much freezing so we probably wouldn't have wanted to barbecue anyways) so they made pulled pork sandwiches! We also had pasta salad, potato salad, baked beans, veggies and dip, cookies, chips, root beer and this amazing flag cake that Sister Riley made.
It was a lot of fun to be with other Americans and eat like Americans! You wouldn't think the food would be that different but the salads and pork were all very different from what you might typically have at an Aussie get together.
After lunch we went out in the backyard to light some sparklers! At first Liam and Jonas were afraid of them. I guess it makes sense that a stick on fire might scare them! After they got used to them and realized they weren't going to get burned they loved it. For the rest of the day they were talking about getting more sparklers to do in our yard. We have big plans to get more and do them at night!
We also serenaded their neighbors with the Star Spangled Banner while we waved our sparklers. Doesn't Jonas look like he is singing above? "Oh say can you see...."
Some of our other American friends...
The aftermath of our wild sparkler party!We hope you all have a great 4th of July with a wild sparkler party of your own!
4 comments:
thats awesome that she made that cake. I found that on one of my "crafty" blogs that I stalk and was tempted to try it. Glad she did so I don't have to! I did sparklers with my nieces and nephews here and they loved them too, once they warmed up to them. I'm glad you had a good fourth!
That cake does look pretty awsome! That is so cool that you found some friends to celebrate with, it looked like you all had fun.
I didn't do any sparklers. Sad, huh? We had a bunch of other ones though. CUTE cake!! LOVE the blue w/ the stripes!!! Awesome. Glad ya'll could have fun w/ the other Americans.
How fun! That cake IS Amazing!!!!!!!
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