Happy 5th of July!

Hope you had a blast yesterday celebrating our amazing country. 

We sure did!

And for your Friday, I give you a behind the scenes look at capturing the jumping look. 

First, I downloaded a self timer ap. Couldn't find one that allowed for multiple pictures, so you bet I was running back and forth to my phone between each and every shot. 

Commitment, folks. Commitment. 

Next, the most important part of a jumping shot. Figuring out when to dip down. Around this point in the process, you will probably end up with a picture like this:

And once you finally get the timing right, you will probably need to practice posing in the air a few times. Expect a few of these:

More then likely, you'll end up with a few where one of you never heard the beeping on the phone, and therefore, it looks like the one who did is leaping into (or attacking) the other:

But give it time, and eventually, you'll end up with one that's golden. 

Apparently, I like jumping on the 4th of July.

Happy 5th of July! From us, to you. 

What We Had For...

Dinner Breakfast.

Ingredients:

1/4 cup butter, melted

4 eggs

1 cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg

8 slices Texas toast

Blueberry Sauce:

1/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 tsp. cornstarch

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries

2 tbsp. thawed orange juice concentrate

Directions:

1. Pour melted butter on a 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan; lift and tilt pan to coat bottom evenly. In a large shallow bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, vanilla and nutmeg. 

2. Dip both sides of Texas toast into egg mixture; place on prepared pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned. 

3. For sauce, in a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon. Stir in blueberries and orange juice concentrate. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. 

4. Serve with French toast. 

Oh, and in case you didn't notice from the pics, I added some strawberries to make it a bit more festive for the 4th. 

You know what else was festive? Our pinterest-ified outfits. 

I can't even take credit for this one guys. My non-blogging roomie got the idea for these fantastic shorts. 

We got some other cute pics from the day, thanks to self timer. 

And some more self timer pics:

And for your viewing pleasure, the "Just Keep Jumping" series:

Now is the time where I should show the final, amazing jumping picture that we captured. 

And I would. 

If we finally got one. 

Which we did not. 

Regardless, we had ourselves a wonderful holiday, gloomy weather and all. 

Happy Friday!!

Happy 4th of July!

Hope you are having a wonderful time celebrating!

I know we will be, even with the June JULY gloom. 

Here's what we had for a patriotic breakfast:

Baked french toast with blueberry sauce and strawberries. 

And yes, you can expect the recipe tomorrow. Because I love you like that. 

XO.