4th of July Picnic for Two!

As you read in my post ON the 4th of July, this particular date was really pivotal to me, PLUS, I just really love the celebration of the 4th, so I tried to make our first 4th together special. Ryan had to work that morning, so I got up when he did and spent the morning being a housewife, which I adored. I got all kinds of chores done...and then I set out to put together a little picnic for two in our pirogi!!!

Ryan brought me these flowers earlier in the week, which was pretty perfect, because it meant I didn't have to go get any for our celebration! :) I did get the balloon star to add to it, and it made the perfect-sized centerpiece to add to our tiny patio table.

I bought a couple of plastic tablecloths just to dress the pirogi up a bit and cut them so I had enough for two tables. I carted one of our little square living room ottomans out to the pirogi, covered it with a layer of red and blue tablecloth, put our bed tray on top of it and made that the station for the condiments. I dressed it up with the printable from the living room.

For our main dish...cheeseburger kabobs! I happen to think they're kind of cute!! I just used meatballs for the meat {didn't make them from scratch...just took them out of the freezer bag and baked them} and layered them with cheese, grape tomatoes, pickles, and sections of hamburger bun on the end!! We LOVED them - and they were cute. You really can't top cute food.

I also made pasta salad from the Dashing Dish website...with a few alterations to change ingredients for ones we liked a little better.

So here was our little table. Not terribly fancy, but we enjoyed it!!

Ryan stopped on the way home and got Polar Pops for us because pop just sounded SO GOOD with this meal. I appreciate that their cup color scheme fit right in....

And take a good look at my hair because this is the smallest it was ALL DAY.

After lunch, we had dessert - which was a Pinterest find...little patriotic no-bake cheesecakes!! And, of course, coffee.

After lunch, we were both pooped - I mean, seriously, getting up at 5:00 a.m. on a HOLIDAY will do that to you!!! - so we curled up in the hammock and took a TWO HOUR nap. It was heavenly. After the scorcher year we had last year....this was a much more pleasant temperature holiday!!! {And by pleasant, I mean this year has bordered on downright COLD for a summer.}

So that was our patriotic picnic for two! We loved it!