Happy birthday Mr. President... umm... I mean, America...

I had a moment yesterday.
It was one of those times that you know something is going wrong... but you just.   CAN'T.   stop.   it.
Yeah... one of those.

I bought a cute new blue and white dress for the 4th of July.

I had been invited out on a house boat with some friends of mine.
We swam.
We grilled.
We ate the festive food I made.

Homemade chocolate chip cookies colored to look like the flag

Chocolate, Strawberries, & Marshmallows

Then the sun was setting... we all decided to get our pictures taken in front of the sunset.
I (being the residential photographer) took everyone's cameras in hand and told them to go pose at the bow of the boat.

I was doing just fine.... until a gust of wind came up.

I had a Marilyn Monroe moment.


Except with me... I wasn't in a movie... and I had cameras in both hands that I couldn't get set down... and my WHOLE skirt decided to fly up.  So even though I was pushing down on one side... the other was coming up.


So... what do my lovely friends do??
Do they come to my rescue??
Oh. no.
They take pictures and laugh at me FIRST!!!

So... yeah... nothing like celebrating America's birthday by giving the whole lake a peep show.
Yea me.

Pogueland Pics

Here are the pics I promised from our weekend at Pogueland!!!

This is what we were greeted with first off - a black widow spider - I love nature. I love nature... Okay... I don't love this kind of nature!!! The kids didn't seem to mind though.

Anyone for chopping some wood?? The guys took this duty on - thank goodness!!!

We had an AWESOME dinner of pork steaks (or hot dogs), corn on the cob,

and who could forget the s'mores!!!

After dinner, the kids had fun swinging in the tree swing.

It was Fourth of July, so we of course had to enjoy some fun and some fireworks! Jean provided us with these lovely decorations - Thank goodness she bought them on sale last year!! I had the "priviledge" of putting them together.

Michelle provided everyone with glowing bracelets, "So we could find our loved ones in the dark." She even color-coordinated families. She's so good! :) (Our color was green!)




Then it was time to head down the hill to enjoy the fireworks!! I think the adults had more fun than the kids did - but it was TOO dark to get pics of the adults :)

***More pics to come****