happy birfday america!!

what a busy 4th of july weekend we just had celebrating America's birthday!

well on thurs. july 1st it was my girl gwen's birthday and what a fab birthday it was!

and steve had a little bit of a birthday party surprise for her, whatta nice guy!

she's such a cute pregnant woman, they're gonna be having a baby girl in oct and she's gonna be a DARLING half tongan baby!

on friday the next day steve and gwen decided to have a little cookout and also invited our other friends sana and marco.

we roasted hot dogs and made smore's.

pretty much a perfect combo.

poor brett can't aim for his mouth though. haha i think he looks adorable.

i also tried roasting peach rings....but ended up tasting like a leftover burnt marshamallow peach ring.
that night was so fun! we came home really late smelling like smoke and the smell permeated throughout the apt. good thing scentsy killed it off!

the next day being sat. the 3rd the cities of rexburg and idaho falls celebrated America's independance day mainly b/c they're such highly populated LDS communities. and i had to work, it wasn't too bad but still...a few of my co-workers and i had to get up early in the morning and get to the store and start making jambas and oatmeal like crazy to sell to the people at the parade and such. and we even enlisted our husbands' help to go up and down main street yelling, "JAMBAS for $1.50!!!!!" yup thats how brett and i spent our time at the parade. and while we were selling the goods we got free hot dogs, free jimmy john sandwiches, little discounted items, and even some candy the floats were throwing. hey we need to enjoy ourselves too at the parade.

after all that we went home and took a freakin long nap.

that evening brett and i didn't have anywhere to go for the firework festivities. we don't really have family around to party with so steve and gwen invited us to go with them to gwen's cousin's house in IF and we were so grateful for that. yeah it wasn't our family but it felt so nice to be with people just hangin out, sharing laughs, and eating good food.

where gwen's cuz lives in IF we just had to walk just a little bit and got an almost perfect view of the fireworks. afterwards going home traffic was so horrible it took us about an hour when the drive from IF to rexburg usually takes 20mins-ish....

sunday the 4th (today) we were so exhausted from the weekend we literally didn't do anything. simple as that.
HAPPY 4th of JULY EVERYONE!!!

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!

I LOVE YOU!!!