We had a really busy three-day weekend, so by the time we got to Monday the 4th, we were all ready for it to be low key.  We had tri tip and corn on the cob, but I had forgotten to buy potatoes at the store (who forgets potatoes?).  We had a lot of left-over steamed rice, so the kids asked if I could make fried rice for dinner.

Some people have potato salad, we had fried rice.  Sort of typifies America doesn't it?

We also had a lot of birthday cake this weekend between Ariana's party and my mom's.


And then there were the water balloons.