4th of july/ 4 day weekend (long post)

going back to work after a 4 day weekend is the worst. 

this weekend was so much fun and jam packed. 

it felt like there was almost always something to do, which was fun :)

wednesday night my sister, her husband, and their baby got here!

so we spent the night playing games and just hanging out.

(this game got a little out of control at times, mostly due to me haha)

thursday was the 4th of july. 

we were planning on going to lava to go swimming with my family

but the weather had other plans...

right when we got there it was super cloudy and not exactly warm enough to swim.

everyone else decided to drive back to pocatello and go swimming

 since it was still hot and sunny there.

branden and i decided to hang out and walk around for a bit.

we watched people float the river and got a snow cone :)

luckily the weather was still nice by the time we got back so we went swimming 

with the rest of my family.

that night we went up to the fairgrounds to watch the fireworks. 

well once again the weather wasn't cooperating... 

it was too windy to light off the fireworks so they kept postponing it. 

finally at about 11 o'clock we decided to go lay in the back of our truck and just watch them from there so that once they were over we could beat all the traffic and get home at a decent hour. (branden had to work the next day and we are just too old and boring to stay out that late anyway :))

they finally lit them off around 11:30. 

laying in the back of the truck and watching them was the way to do it. 

i'm thinking next year maybe we won't waste the $5 to get in and just park outside and watch them from there! 

friday was actually really lazy (for me) branden had to work half of the day and then took a 4 hour nap when he got home. i spent most of the day watching old episodes of friends. 

we went to dinner with branden's parents that night and then once it got dark we went out to my moms for a bonfire. 

i had to overcompensate to make up for branden's lack of enthusiasm ;)

saturday i spent the day shopping with the girls of my family 

(plus this handsome man) 

and then we spent the night watching movies at branden's parents. 

sunday was another relaxing day. we had dinner with my family before my sister left :(

it was a great weekend and i loved getting to hang out with my family (and especially my cute nephew) for 4 days in a row! 

whew! you made it to the end of this post! congrats!