4th of July

This year, we were able to travel to Utah and Idaho over the 4th of July weekend. Duke had an interview in SLC, so we headed there first, then we headed up to Rigby, Idaho to see my Sister's family. I haven't seen them in about a year and a half, so it was great fun to be with them!

We started the 4th celebrations with the Idaho Falls parade. We thought that we would be a part of the parade, but we lucked out to just be able to watch it ;). Aaron's landscaping business has a float in the parade and their landscapers dance to music... it's quite funny, and the crowd loves them!

We made it home for a nap, and then headed to Timmie's in-laws for some yummy barbeque. Of course, we got to do some more of this:

Celebrating my birthday... I love extended birthdays :). It also helps to have nephews help blow out the hundreds of candles (oh wait, 28) AND have ice cream cake from Cold Stone :).

We then headed back to Idaho Falls for the BEST fireworks show ever!

These are pics while we were waiting for them to start:

ahhhh, how cute :)

Idaho has awesome sunsets:

To finish off a fun weekend, we ended up in Yellowstone at Timmie's in-law's cabin. It was great up there... besides the bugs, which I really am not a fan of :) We went up the mountains and had a fire... of course, what is the only way to put it out? This was before the action...

Then, we headed home on Tuesday... the long, not so scenic drive home to Reno. The only thing missing from this trip was we originally had planned to make it to Gooding to see Duke's parents and we weren't able to make it there... I guess we'll have to make that trip soon :)