FriendsLucy HolidayJulyFourth For the third straight year, we decided to celebrate Independence Day with Lucy and her family. Caroline brought the July 4th hat which was worn by Jane ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1112 Lucy ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1113 Ben ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1114 Michael ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1115 Caroline ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1116 Ben, again ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1117 and David ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1118 She also brought this hat for Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1119 who do a mad hatter act ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1120 and then a madder hatter ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1121 or was she being Bartholomew Cubbins and working towards 500 hats?

The ingredients came out ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1122 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1123 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1124 for gin and tonics and then Jane ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1125 and Lucy and Jane posed with hat ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1126 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1127 without hat ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1128 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1129 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1130 then embracing ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1131 then back-to-back ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1132 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1133 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1134 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1135 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1136 and side by side ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1137 in what will someday be their modeling portfolios.

We fired up the grill ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1138 and cleaned the grate ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1139 until we got to a good temperature ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1140 and so unpacked the food ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1141 and put it on the grill ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1142 while Michael ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1143 and Benjamin ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1144 tossed a ball, Jane and Lucy chilled ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1145 on the deck and after another round of photos ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1146 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1147 ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1148 the food was done on the grill ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1149 and ready for transportation ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1150 into the house where the food looked ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1151 quite good -- this was Michael's plate ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1152

After dinner, Lucy showed us how she could turn beer ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1153 into milk ../../../Sabbat/07.04.02July4//IMG_1154 and we all thanked Thomas Jefferson for the holiday.