Our Fake 4th of July

Colin and I decided to celebrate July 4th early because we're not going to be together on the actual day, and it's our first holiday together as a married couple. So we had to celebrate ;)
Anyways, I spent practically the whole day running around town buying and also making the food for us since this was a last minute decision. I was super stressed because I found the cutest American flag pie on pinterest that I was dying to make, but I needed a star shaped cookie cutter and couldn't find one ANYWHERE. Eventually I found a flower shaped cookie cutter that resembled a star haha, so I gave up and just went with that. Then to add to the stress, later in the day I slammed my finger in a gate and almost passed out (yes, again...this also happened on my birthday lol.) But none of that even matters because I finished my pie!!! This was the very first homemade fruit pie I've ever made without someone more experienced than me helping, and I encountered a few problems while transporting the pie hence the smashed crust haha. I still think it looks good for a first try! Luckily it tastes way better than it looks :) I even got two thumbs up from the hubby!

The left is what I was going for and the right is mine haha. I swear the only reason their pie looks better is because their picture was taken in light other than your florescent light bulb lit kitchen at 10 P.M. ;)

After Colin got home from work we left for the beach! The beaches here are a million times better looking than what we're used to in Texas, but the water is also a million times colder. We don't really swim here lol.

Now comes my favorite part! Here are all of the pictures we took :) I'm especially excited about these ones because I recently broke out my fancy DSLR instead of the teeny point and shoot we have. Plus I actually took the time to edit these differently, which is half the fun! So here ya go.

I was going for a simplistic modern look on the left and a modern vintage look on the right (if that makes sense lol) while I edited these ones...partial success!

These are payback for Colin purposefully shoving pieces of watermelon in his mouth when I tried taking picture of him! I had to throw in the cute one at the end though :) P.S. I just realized I need to work on keeping myself out of sunglasses reflections...whoops hehe.

MY COLIN TOOK THIS! We may have a budding photographer on our hands!

My hot husband! I like this one a lot :)

Our little picnic spot post 4th of July feasting. Notice the cute watermelon table cloth I found...$1! I was very proud of that steal haha. Also, our IBC rootbeer bottles brought quite the crowd to us since everyone assumed it was beer lol.

Last but not least, the watermelon I cut into star shapes! That cookie cutter really came in handy! Plus the cute shapes seemed to make them taste better ;)