Where Officer grew up they did a pancake breakfast in their ward every year for the 4th of July. I decided this year we should begin this tradition because he usually works on the night of the 4th so we haven't been able to do fireworks as a family. So we had our first (hoping to be annual, but needing some improvements) pancake breakfast and it was a decent turnout of about 8 families. Afterward we took our own little family picture with in our patriotic old navy shirts. The kids and I went to a family bbq later and Officer was able to drop by for a few minutes, but he had a busy night.
None of my pictures from the fireworks turned out at all but this little picture of cupcake sleeping through it all was cute!