Friday Favorites ~ 4th of July Fun

I hope you all had a good holiday week!  Yesterday sure felt like another Monday to me back at work, but now its Friday, so that's a good thing!  Here are some highlights from our holiday...

Well, Tuesday night we were so excited to have a day off the next day, so we treated it like a Friday night and watched a movie.  Our girls had never seen the original Vacation movie, so we changed that this week.  It is still just as funny and I laughed at so many things.  We had recorded this off tv, so the cussing was all deleted.  This was a fun way to get the all-American holiday started!

Wednesday morning, I broke out the most expensive muffin mix I have ever purchased and made these huckleberry muffins.  I bought this mix from our trip to Montana.

The huckleberries are very small, dark purple, sweet berries.  I tasted one before I put it in the mix and it was so good.

Then we all enjoyed our 4th of July breakfast!

We enjoyed our morning at home.  I did some laundry and did some organizing, including going through cabinets and drawers.  I also made some patriotic oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with red, white and blue M&M's to take to a cookout that afternoon.  We enjoyed being at a friends house with new and old friends.  There was a pool and good food, so those are necessary for the 4th!  At the end of the night, they did some fireworks in the street.

We came home to our cove and a neighbor had purchased $400 worth of fireworks, so we had another firework show in front of our home.  We could see the city fireworks show in the distance, so it was a great view.  I then watched the end of the Macy's firework show with its patriotic music.  Here are some pictures from the firework show in our cove....

I didn't get any family photos through the day......I guess that is part of having older kids instead of younger ones, but it was a good mid-week holiday.

And now, happy weekend!!