Independence Day!!

I seriously LOVE everything to do with the 4th of July. The freedoms we celebrate because of our Founding Fathers. The fabulous food. The fireworks. And of course time with family and friends. 

This year we didn't spend the day with any of our friends because we were really unsure of our plans until the day before. Then it was too late to invite any one over, but next year we won't be making that mistake! 

Instead we spent the whole day together as a family, and it was amazing!

We worked around the house, we ate a ton of delicious food, and we watched the fireworks in the neighborhood. The kids played in the kiddie pool and ran through the sprinklers.

All in all it was a great day! Much better than last year, but we won't get into that right now.

My wonderful husband did do something that was mighty silly, and it threatened to ruin the whole day!

He thought it might be a good day to work in his bee hives. Now normally I wouldn't bat an eyelash to this, but I probably should have on this day! So he suited up in his helmet and face protector and got the smoker out. He wasn't however wearing long pants, just shorts which is a no-no in the whole working bees business and I'll tell you why. Within a COUPLE of minutes of taking the top off of the bee hive those ladies started coming at him with a vengeance! They got him alright, actually not once, not twice, but THREE whole times they got him! 

His legs were hurting pretty bad and he wasn't feeling too well either. 

I rushed out the door to get him some benadryl and some other meds to help him to feel better. When I came back home my dear husband was almost certain he was going to have to go to the hospital. Luckily he ended up recovering and feeling better after a few HOURS! I was so happy when he could get off the couch without feeling like he was going to fall over. Right then and there I told him he can work those bees any other day of the year except holidays! He has been fine ever since, but that sure was a close call of postponing our Fourth of July celebrations!

On the bright side of things, I did get to take a lot of pictures of our cute little kids!

My beautiful purple cone flower! I love those beauties!

 Our lovely ladies enjoyed the day too!