4th of July.

(These were the huge poles we hammered into the ground.
 haha. Such a joke.)

(35 flags and 3 hours later we were done! Finally! )

I feel like I probably should blog about the 4th..Since it's a holiday and all! Well the 3rd at like 3am...(technically the beginning of the 4th) my friend arrived home after 6 months! He was in China, teaching kids English and exploring the land. So I was up all night visiting with him! It was so fun! We looked at pictures, talked about life, laughed our faces off and caught up on the last 6 months. Time flew by, and it was suddenly 6am. Well... my brother was in charge of putting up flags throughout the neighborhood for our church and needed help. So we carried huge flags, and made total fools out of ourselves hammering 6 foot flags into the ground (Seriously, it was hard...especially we were all clueless and a tad delusional). Then Josh and I went on a little "4th of July drive" checked out the parade before it started haha, and listened to country patriotic songs. I finally went to sleep for the night at like noon.

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I slept practically the whole day... and woke up to my neighbors shooting super loud fireworks. In Utah, people are alowed to shoot fireworks in NEIGHBORHOODS! I still can't believe it. I don't understand for the life of me how this is safe, or legal? But that is to be discussed later..:) So I sat on my porch swing like a total freak enjoying fireworks almost burn my house down. Literately.

By the way my dogs, are the most "un-4th of July dogs" EVER. They HATE hearing fireworks, especially above our house.

My grandparents got into the spirit,
 and went dancing and all around town looking like this haha.
Their the cutest.

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When Mitch got off work, we hung out like we always do. We watched fireworks in NYC on Tv, for like 25 minutes, and "pretended" they were real...and layed on the ground 2 inches away from my movie screen. Then we became super patriotic and dressed up and took pictures. Doesn't he look great? He is seriously such a trooper, we took tons of cheesy pictures. I'm so grateful that he puts up with me and my strange picture taking ways.

All in all, I had a great 4th of July. I'm so glad I live in the USA, where I can worship God, where I have freedom of religion, speech, and all the other freedoms we take advantage of. I'm also so thankful for all the many people fighting so I can have freedom. How selfless is that? Risking your own life so others can have freedom? I find that simply amazing. 

Happy 4th Ya'll.