Fourth of July Adventures

This weekend was basically awesome! Especially because it started on a Thursday, the day of independence! It was Carter's very first fourth of July ever, and I must say he did very good :)

Thursday morning started with a very nice run (I didn't even pass out this time) and packing up the car. Because are are literally in the middle of nowhere and have not a single family member around, we decided to take a road trip to some fun place. Well, because of our budget, thinking about the little guy, and our family's plans for the fourth, we decided on Twin Falls Idaho! Pretty much the best place ever right? What could be more exciting than a trip to Gooding Idaho too, for a free lunch and swim party?!

Carter all ready to go on our adventure :)

After traveling for about an hour we decided to pull over, because Carter bug was hungry, and so we fed his cute little face. Once he was happy and sleepy, we set off for Gooding and guess what we found when we got there? An empty pool.... so we headed back to our hotel to swim in their little pool. I don't know why we decided to drive 45 min out of the way to swim, when our hotel had one the whole time. Oh well, it was an adventure.

Our little family.... in the car ALL day

After having some fun in the pool, we decided to crash a party at the CSI campus with free chili dogs and rootbeer floats. Once we finally found it, the wind picked up, it started raining, and we found ourselves holding Carter from flying away and walking back to the car. With yet another strike out to our adventure, A&W was decided for dinner (all american food) and a drive inn movie, that would hopefully still be playing with the yucky weather.

Carter Bug with mom

Carter Bug with Dad

He wasn't sure about the water at first....

The only strike out we didn't have was the movie!!! We got to see Despicable Me 2 and Carter was surprisingly good.. well, sort of. He slept through about the first 15 minutes and then Jason had to walk around with him. Once he fell asleep, he was asleep for 30 minutes and decided he wanted to join in the fun. Jason says the movie was good from what he saw (poor guy) and me because I'm super spoiled with an awesome husband, I thought the movie was great! The first one was much better though.

Those are Carter's sparklers... no one else...

Carter wondering when we'll be home.

We ended up getting back to our hotel around midnight and jumped into bed before Carter could disagree. Sweet little thing slept pretty well and we were up again at 8:00 for some yummy breakfast and an exciting grocery trip to Winco. On the way home we stopped once for the bug to have a clean bum, and we were home before dinner :)

The rest of the night was very relaxing, and then Saturday morning came. We cleaned the house, had a visit from our landlords, and Jason mowed our "lawn" of weeds. Then it was off to another adventure at our neighbors house for a delicious BBQ with moms, babies, and daddies too. It was so nice to know that we aren't the only ones living out here, and that we have some pretty awesome neighbors and friends now.

Relaxin' with dad

Today has been most wonderful, playing with Carter, eating chili &cheesecake, and playing games together. I am so very sad that the weekend will be over tomorrow, but we only have 5 days until the next one :)

I hope your Fourth was as awesome as ours :)

Carter was pooped :)