4th of July

On July 4, 2023, our United States turned a young 247 years old. The country certainly has some maturing to do to truly grant all residents the freedoms and rights that our founding laws claim to value. And still, we enjoyed celebrating our country's birthday with patriotic colors, foods, and lots of fun! (Note, you will see zero evidence of a Cohen father figure in this post as he was largely horizontal during the festivities.)

We were dressed and ready to celebrate at breakfast. Somehow, our blue waffles turned green, but they were still yummy and patriotically pretty.

We headed outside to our driveway, where the neighborhood parade passed right in front of our house.

We strolled to the neighborhood park where we met up with the Gildens and the parade again!

Even the pups showed her spirit.

Back at the ranch, Ethan and I decided we needed a fun way to cool off. Thanks to a recent gift from Grandma, we had reusable water balloons to pelt at each other.

It turned out that we weren't the only ones who wanted to play.



Patriotic birthday fun continued with edible American flags:



Our evening portion of the celebration began back at our neighborhood park with a patriotic concert by the Austin Civic Wind Ensemble. After our picnic dinner, the 2 big kids found friends to frolic with, leaving me and Spencer left to enjoy by ourselves.


We were JUST getting started! The 4 vertical Cohens drove the short trek to Cedar Park to wait for dusk and fireworks.


The departing sun put on quite a lovely show while we were waiting patiently for the next show.

Party Planning Momma came prepared!




And finally, the culminating birthday event!