To cap off our Independence Day weekend, we invited our very good friend’s the Jernigan’s over for dinner on our back porch. Our upstairs neighbor Carl let us borrow his grill and Daddy did some “studying up” this afternoon to get it just right. On the menu: hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, fresh watermelon, and (drumroll, please) dirt cake. Yum!!

Needless to say, the kids had a ball. It was warm enough to splash around in the kiddie pool, and we knew we were going to have to dunk them all in the bath after all was said and done. We call these our “before” pictures…