Monday, July 13, 2009

July 4th

For the 4th of July weekend, we decided to go down to Mom's house. The small town where she lives does a fun parade and a wonderful fireworks show so we thought it would be fun to take a mini vacation.

We left for mom's house Friday morning and when we got there she took me to get a pedicure at a local spa. It was wonderful... definitely a great start to the weekend!

The nest stop was the park... we always end up at the park!




Jackson was very upset when it was time to go!
Friday night we had cheeseburgers for dinner... a pretty typical July 4th meal, I'd say. We also made some fun red, white and blue cupcakes.
The parade was on Saturday morning, and the whole town comes out for it. There is one way in and out of Tega Cay, so it goes up this main drag. The police officers must love it because it actually gives them something to do. Jackson made out like a bandit. He got candy, stickers, a necklace and bracelet, and even a popcicle!

Don't we look cute?
We decided we would have a very non-traditional 4th of July meal so mom and I made a homemade pizza margherita. Since we were making pizza, Jackson and I made a dessert pizza as well that atleast looked like the 4th of July. Jackson saw it in his Turtle Magazine and thought it was so cool that there were strawberries on a pizza.
making the sugar cookie dough

spreading the cream cheese sauce

topping our pizza


Jackson and Caroline decided it was more fun to eat the toppings than to put them on the pizza


Jackson LOVES berries!

the finished product...YUMMY

And here was our delicious, from scratch, pizza margherita. We all reaked of garlic, but it was worth it. When Jackson woke up Sunday morning I herad him messing around in the kitchen. Here is what I walked in on...

It was that good!
Thank you, mom, for such a wonderful time. We felt spoiled all weekend!

I think Caroline's favorite part was Nanny's fridge

and Jackson's favorite part is "his" room

1 comment:

Leda Johnson said...

It looks like you guys had a lot of fun at your mom's house! I love the picture of Jackson eating the pizza. Hilarious!