Independance Day

My (Nicole's) parents came down to celebrate with us on the 4th of July. We were still living in Temple at the time (we have since moved back to Bryan, but I will post on that later). My brother was invited to a lake house with a friend, so we missed out on seeing him too. It was a very fun weekend though.
Drew grilled out - chicken and (our favorite) angus hot dogs. He always does a great job grilling, much better than I could ever do. However, there were a few times (yes, more than once) that he dropped a chicken breast in the grass because they were so slippery. My mom gave him a hard time about it...actually so did I. There is even proof of me laughing at him:

Here is a pic of him trying to exact his revenge on my mom by hitting her with the raw chicken breast. Yeah, we a are a goofy family. :)
You can see the look she gave him before he did it. It can turn water to ice.


Here is a pic of the delicious food we had, once Drew finish grilling of course. In addition to hot dogs and chicken, we had watermelon, Greek salad, guacamole, green onion dip, and chips.

My lovely parents decked out in their patriotic t-shirts. I think they are so cute. We hope you had a wonderful 4th of July too!

We had planned to set off a few fireworks of our own, but never got around to it. Drew was definitely excited about it though.
After dinner we went to the local fireworks show. There was a band that played before the fireworks that was terrible - they were Elvis and Beatles impersonators. Drew said the Elvis had a range of about 4 notes, which seemed accurate. It was fun to see some of the local color though. Ah, small town America. :) The fireworks were surprisingly good. Temple has about 100,000 people, so I guess I shouldn't have been shocked that they would have a decent fireworks display, but these were really good!


Do you have any traditions for 4th of July? What did you do to celebrate this year?