We had a very international Independence Day this year. Celebrated in Sweden with some American friends, some Swedish friends and some Japanese friends. It was a great time!
We started the day by making star shaped sugar cookies. The kids decorated them. And their reward for NOT licking their fingers after every cookie was that after all the cookies had been decorated they got to eat the sprinkles the didn't quite make it onto the cookies while they were decorating...
Lilli discovered that it was quicker and easier to just like the sprinkles directly off the table rather than using her fingers to pick them up. Tipton followed suit.
And sadly, that was when I stopped taking pictures. We were having too much fun to take pictures once our friends arrived. Tipton and Lilli played with Karen, Eren, Nora, Molly, (Shae), Nicolas and Josh. I sat and talked with Motoko, Heather, Lina and Susanne. Dave ran around cooking burgers and hot dogs and playing host and talking to Kouji.
It was a beautiful day/evening. We all sat out in the garden while the kids ran around playing hide and seek and having all sorts of fun.
Earlier in the week Tipton, Lilli and I made star-studded leis for all the kids. And my Mom had sent patriotic party blowers. For the meal we had burgers and hot dogs, potato salad (made with dill relish that my mom had sent, as dill pickles do not exist over here) and french fries. For dessert we had star shaped sugar cookies, rice krispie treats, caramal cork (aka "crack") and a Bavarian apple tort. I was going to make an apple pie, but my pie plate isn't really deep enough, and with such an international gathering I thought we should have an "international" dessert. And ice cream. Ha ha - reading what we had to eat, I made more food for dessert than for the actual meal! Ha ha ha!
There were no fireworks (the sun was still out when everyone left a little after 10:00), but there were plenty of good friends and to me that is much more important!
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