Happy 4th!

For the 4th, Dan and I went and spend the day with my parents in Graham. We went to a pancake breakfast and 4th of July parade but even more important than that, we met Kate!

Convict Katie

She is a doll! And such the puppy! I have this funny little video of her attacking a bush. She's nuts. Sadly, I cannot post the video since the new camera takes only .MOV movies, which I currently can't edit.

We also made home-made ice cream. Yum!

Before the Churning

And boy, that hand churning is tough! I worked hard making the ice cream!

Working Hard!

Okay, okay. So I did just enough churning to say I helped. Dan and Dad did the majority of the churning.

Doing the Real Work

The Other Worker Bees

The Finished Product

The ice cream was soooooo good. We used maraschino cherries and it tasted so much like the snow-cream mom used to make when we lived in North Carolina after a snow. Mmm. So good.

And, of course, you can't have a 4th of July without fireworks. Or, in this case, sparklers.

Oooh, look at the pretty!

Yep, so all in all a very good time.