Celebrating Independence Day the Only Way I Know How...With Food!

The three day weekend has been fabulous. We started out on Friday being extremely productive: weeding the front and back yards, prepping all the food for our big meal (grilled pork chops w/asian marinade, backed potatoes over the fire and grilled corn with garlic butter, yum!), shopping for food prep stuff for Saturday's extravaganza, etc. Friday night we decided to forego the large crowds and just set off some fireworks at home. I wish I had gotten some photos of it, but J totally flipped out at the noise and light, so I spent a lot of time calming her down and putting her to bed while Hubs & C played with sparklers and ate cookies (okay, I ate a shitload of cookies, too). But, here's a picture of the morning after...






Saturday we had my parents over for an all-day-long barbecue marathon. Click on the link above if you want all the juicy details, but suffice it to say that we ate and drank ourselves silly (we had actually planned ofr more dishes but decided to skip them after much alchohol contributed to a more lackidasical attitude towards our massive endeavor...also it was like 100 degrees out and we were hot as shit)

Today we got a mite more slothful and decided to expend our energies doing absolutely nothing ;) We recently acquired a summer yacht known as the Scurvy Dog:


Pirates on their way to the Scurvy Dog:


Priates playing one of their favorite pirate games (Poke Your Brother):



A good time was had by all ;) Next week we head off to beautiful rural Ohio for our long awaited family reunion with the G-side of my family. Three days of non-stop action and pig roasting (no really, we plan to roast a whole pig on a spit while consuming mass quantities of alchohol) Don't ever let anyone tell you that Mennonites don't know how to party!