Red White and Blue

Due to my new love affair with Pinterest... I am becoming even more cheesy than normal! Typically on holidays, I just wear an outfit with the appropriate colors. But not anymore!! On Pinterest I was seeing all kinds of cute 4th of July foods and ideas... so I HAD to get involved!!

We had Ty's family over for dinner on Sunday July 3rd, but it was close enough. My dessert table was all red, white, and blue...

The Fruit Plate...
The whole sha-bang. (not a ton of food- but there were only 9 of us eating)

The cupcakes!! I used vanilla cake mix and split it into thirds. In 1 bowl I added blue food coloring and in another I added red :) I ended up with STRIPES!! You can see the stripes through the paper a little. And since we had "red" on top, I made homemade strawberry cream cheese icing to go on top!! YUM!!

The inside (this one didn't have a lot of red, others did)

Without the flash the colors are more vibrant, but the clarity is gone. You get the idea.

On the 4th of July I took a meal to a friend who is on bed rest for 10 weeks. TEN WEEKS! and since she was "missing" the 4th of July, I took her some of my red,white, and blue cupcakes... PLUS... this fruit jar!!

strawberries, fruit dip (equal parts cream cheese and marshmallow fluff), and blueberries. topped with a cute fabric and ribbon (to hide the fact that this was indeed my spaghetti sauce jar from a few days earlier)

And that was my red, white, and blue 4th. (By the way, I wore red, white, and blue all day while we were working in our garage, but FORGOT to pick out red,white,and blue to go watch fire works. What was I thinking??)