Happy Independence Day

Brendon and I told my parents we better do something pretty great this holiday to distract us from the fact that it would be our first year missing the 4th of July celebration on the South Lawn of the White House. Since the fires in Northern California are so terrible this year (all those fires you are seeing on the news are right by us) we decided to head to the coast to get away from the smoke.

The family picture...Me, Bren, Mom, Dad and my sister Tiffany.

We spent a relaxing weekend in adorable Mendocino, California in a cute little beach side hotel. (Our hotels is one of those behind us in the picture).

We went to the larget salmon bbq in the country. Tiffany fed Macey a hot dog which she devoured and loved!

Macey had her first experience with sand and ocean waves. I must say she was kind of a scaredy cat. Macey was sporting her patriotism at our tail gate party. We dripped a little root beer on the truck and she was all over it.