Happy Fourth of July!

Let's face it 4th of July is an entire week celebration! I think I have come to discover this is one of my top favorite holidays! Little Rupert Idaho has some great shindigs throughout the week of the Fourth, food, parades, fireworks, and this year there was a catapult! You sit in a bucket seat and get locked in and then they shoot you into the air and holy moly never in a million years did I think I would ever do something like that...I know I know how big of a baby am I?! Well I am the type of girl who wants to do all those exciting and exhilarating things but can never muster up the courage to do them. When I was out with a friend he told me if I wanted to he would do it too...I could tell he wanted to...but he was very kind and was not pressuring me to do it at all. For some reason I just said ok let's do it! And up we went. Once he bought the tickets on the very bottom in bold print it said, "NO REFUNDS". I knew then I was in it for the long haul! I am very glad I did it...it was really fun! And you could see the entire town of Rupert, right at sunset which was so pretty! Here is the video if you can't tell from my screaming I was pretty nervous!

(Sorry it goes sideways...I wasn't recording!)

We got to go to dinner as a family one night into the Square! All of the food is local businesses, churches, schools, clubs and such!  Mexican food is a favorite, as well as the Declo Kettle Corn! Yum! 

The Fourth came and it was the most relaxing holiday, I can safely say, we have had in a long time! We had no plans but the parade and it felt good! Summer is always hustle and bustle and don't get me wrong I love it, but sometimes it is so nice to have no plans especially on a day where you normally would have five million things to do! After the parade we went home, took a nap, and my Grandma Stocking took us out to dinner...the only place open was Pizza Hut but we didn't complain! It tasted good and we got great service! :] Later that night we lit off fireworks with our neighbors...its always so fun to see the cute kids get so excited for the fireworks they have been dying to light off for a week now! Even Holli and I got excited about the sparklers! 

Don't mind our lazy outfits...like I said it was a lazy day!

Right before fireworks a crazy storm came through, making all the little kids stress that fireworks were not going to happen haha! But after the storm passed a BEAUTIFUL sunset came! I wish I was out in the country to enjoy it more fully because it was so pretty! I could have stared at it for hours! 

Since the Fourth was kind of a lazy day my mom and dad decided we could do something fun on Friday! Neither of them had to work and we decided it would be fun to go swimming! We headed off to Lava Hot Springs...someplace I have never been before. It was really fun, until the lightning storm came and they closed the pool! But trust me I would much rather be safe than a fried body in the pool! As we were walking out we were bummed, but once we realized how tired we were in the car we weren't so bummed anymore! 

All in all this past week has been so fun! Like I said the fourth is one now one of my favorite holidays and now I can't wait for next year!