4th of July Weekend

Our two week vacation from work started this past weekend! We don't have any real plans to do anything, except NOT go to work. Ha! We started our weekend on Saturday with a July 2nd shrimp boil at our house. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures, and our neighbor hasn't posted any (yet?), so I couldn't steal any from him. I did, however, steal this picture from Amy's facebook. We had two of the cutest little girls at our shrimp boil - Katie and Vaughn! Aren't they adorable in their red, white, and blue???

We boiled about 4 pounds of shrimp, 2 pounds of potatoes, and 7 ears of corn. We also grilled about 25 chicken drumsticks. I was secretly hoping that we'd have a ton of leftovers that we could eat throughout the week, but, we were only left with about 8 drumsticks! Bummer! Oh well. I guess that means the food was good! I also made fruit salsa and cinnamon chips, which apparently was a huge hit! I used strawberries, mango, kiwi, pineapple, and blueberries - sprinkled with just a bit of sugar and cinnamon. Delicious and refreshing!

On Sunday, we drove out to Argyle to Clay's mom's house to go swimming! It was about 100+ degrees outside...and the pool was a nice and cool 90 degrees. Haha! Clay had driven up from Austin the day before with his new girlfriend, Andrea. And she brought with her the most delicious homemade enchiladas, rice, beans, and HOT salsa! Everything was SO good!! I may or may not have eaten two plates of everything...

On Monday, the 4th, we hung around the house being lazy and then we went to the Ranger's game with our friends, David and Krissy. We stopped at Sherlock's first for a bite to eat and a couple of drinks. When the waitress informed us that they had Strawberry Malibu snow cones for sale, we just had to try one.

DELICIOUS. So good. It would have been even better if we could have taken it with us to the ballpark, though. ha! Luckily for us, we snuck onto the Lexus club level at the ballpark and got into the air conditioned Irish pub. We sat in there until about the top of the third inning, when the sun started to set.

After watching the Rangers soundly defeat the Orioles, we stuck around for the fireworks show!

The show seemed a little short, but I'm assuming that has something to do with the down economy and budget cuts. ha! Nevertheless, it was fun! And here's a fun fact - fireworks were first used to celebrate the 4th of July in 1777!! Who knew! They actually first used fireworks on July 8, 1776, but that technically isn't the 4th of July. :)

Last, but certainly not least, I made a 4th of July wreath for our front door! I found this one on Pinterest and LOVED it, but the girl made hers by cutting out over 500 felt stars. I'm sure that took FOREVER. So, I cheated and just cut 3 inch by 3 inch squares. Same thing only different once you cram them onto the wreath!

Hope you guys had a wonderful 4th of July!!