happy {belated} birthday America!

Happy Birthday America!

America celebrated another awesome birthday!  We celebrated it in style!  A few weeks ago, we went garage sale-ing and found this sweet FIVE DOLLAR purchase:

Yes, we found this gem for all of $5!  It's in great condition and we've already gotten our money's worth!  So, on the fourth, we took Dafney to a beach that's a few miles from our house.  We packed up a picnic lunch & our beach gear and biked to the beach!  It's actually a really nice beach and we found a nice little spot in the shade to set up camp :)  We enjoyed our picnic lunch and then played around in the water & sand!

  Dafney even gave me the "royal treatment".  She took the sand and ever-so-gently rubbed it on my back and shoulders...isn't she just the sweetest!

We spent a couple hours at the beach and then headed home!  Sweet little girl fell asleep on the ride home ;)

After a much needed nap, we were back at it again.  We had some friends over for a BBQ.  

And, it wouldn't be the 4th of July without an ice, cold popsicle treat!  These are the best popscile's - they're "Mighty Mini's", so they are about 1/3 of the size of normal popsicles...perfect for kiddos!

We even got a family photo (minus Hannah)!  It was a perfect day spent with the ones I love!