Our Fourth of July was low energy with almost no pictures, but I’m going to go ahead and do a post anyway. We had the obligatory library flag decoration which was up for a couple of weeks around the holiday and was a big hit with neighbors.
I’d posted it on our library’s Instagram account and got a lot of love. Then the official Little Free Library account picked it up and it got a lot more love. So fun!
The boys built and decorated a Trader Joe’s cookie White House on July 2nd.
And they ate it the next day.
We had planned to attend Palo Alto’s annual chili cook off the afternoon of the Fourth, and then bike over to watch fireworks outside Shoreline Amphitheatre. We did the first activity — good chili and a nice, fairly relaxing atmosphere — but we bailed on the second. Instead, we watched The Sandlot which, surprisingly, none of us had ever seen. Once Finn got over the scary big dog, we all relaxed and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
Partway through the movie we heard the Amphitheatre’s (very long) fireworks show from our comfy spots in the living room. That was enough fireworks for us this year.