Sea to Shining Sea

 Welcome to Wyatt and Kassie's 4th of July party in blog form! Our party was supposed to start at two p.m. but no one ended up showing up until almost four p.m. so we had lots of time to take pictures of all the little details that we worked on for a long time. At our party, we had a photo booth where the guests would take pictures inside of it with their smartphones. Unfortunately, we were some of the only people to take pictures in it with our phones. Everyone else that took pictures was taken from our friend Brian's camera. Our photo booth was made from an old white barn door with little two foot picket fences as the sides of the booth. The picket fence pieces were placed in a pallet to help keep them sturdy. I then glammed them up with a vintage patriotic quilted square as the backdrop. Then, I placed a large piece of red crushed velvet on the top to act as a canopy. It seemed like everyone liked it.

 The tables were sent up so that we could all sit together. I bought just some plain jane plastic tablecloths at the dollar store and then used a patriotic colored nautical cloth piece to add flair to the middle table. Some plastics give me the heebie geebies and the red tablecloths, of course, gave me that feeling. Luckily I never really had to touch them except for when I taped them to the table. The centerpieces I made using my mom's Cricket cutting machine, chopsticks, foam, spray paint, and ribbon. I think they turned out beautifully but unfortunately, there was off and on rain during the 4th of July so I didn't keep them on the table because they were made of paper.

 Wyatt even got his 4wheeler started and he gave a few people rides on the back of it. Some of them even got to drive it themselves like Ariel. We were pretty sure that she was going to stall the 4wheeler down the street!

 

 Everyone was told to bring sides to go with the hotdogs that Jordann was bringing and the cupcakes and drinks we were providing. However, most of the newly 21 friends decided to bring alcohol so our fridge was stocked up with a variety of hard liquors, hard lemonades, hard ciders, and who knows what else. When everyone left, they left behind what was left so our fridge is still packed because neither Wyatt or myself are big drinkers. 

 My mom owns a cupcake business called Obsession Cupcakes. I wanted to help her advertise her business so I had her make cupcakes and cookies to show them off to the friends. She made lemon cupcakes with buffalo cookies with patriotic fur on top and Snicker Doodle cupcakes with Twizzler firecrackers on top. She even made American eagle cookies! The desserts were a huge hit at the party! If any of you want to order some cupcakes or even just check them out, her website is, http://obsessioncupcakes.com/.

 Here are the lovely friends that came to the party.

 It even got so crazy that we broke a chair!

 

My favorite decoration would have to be the lights that I put up. I even put them all up without a ladder! The lights were strung from the old fence posts to the tree and then from the house to the garage, and even from the garage to an old piece of barn wood stood up to create a great effect. The yard looks so great that I actually do not want to take them down for a while.

 The group was originally going to watch fireworks from our side yard but then I got to thinking and I thought that the trees may be in the way so I suggested that we all go watch it down the street which was actually at the lake. Everyone liked that idea so we got the tipsy group and walked down to watch the fireworks. Surprisingly, no one got hurt too bad crossing the street, train tracks, or even the large area with big rocks. When we got back, we used our new fire pit and made s'mores until the group left slowly and then we cleaned up.

 I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July because we sure did!