Our First Married Fourth!

     The fourth of July was our second "big" holiday together and thus, there is always the question of whose family to spend it with. Well this time we got to be with BOTH of our families! My parents & brother came up to Jacksonville to spend the day with Ryan & I and his parents & brother! We had a delicious cook out for a late-ish lunch and then had cake to celebrate both mine & Ryan's dad's birthday! (his is on the 4th!) I also made some cupcakes and attempted to make the frosting red, white, & blue... here's what I got..

Some of them came out with Red & Blue icing....but others looks a bit more purple :/ eek!

 This first trial on the foil came out with pretty good shades of red & blue (I think I gave up on the white)

It was fun to try it though!

     We then headed out to St. Augustine to stake out our land to put our chairs out for the fireworks! Luckily Ryan's dad became friends with the people next to us & they agreed to watch our stuff while we walked around the town. We went to Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum & saw some unbelievable things! Ha...ironic huh? Then we walked around St. George's St. until we found some dinner & then headed back to our chairs! The fireworks were AMAZING and  there were thousands of people there! No exaggeration! The down side to the whole evening was that it took us over 2 hours to get out of the parking garage! We all really enjoyed the day together & the adventure to St. Augustine, but I think the verdict is still out as to whether we'll do it again! Here are so pics of the day: