Fourth of July!

We didn't have any set plans for the fourth of July and we were driving home from the gym the day before the fourth and decided to just drive to rexburg! 12 hour car ride is nothing right?! We packed as fast as we could and we started the long trek.... A very longggg trek. It actually wasn't THAT bad... Just long. Jake did most of the driving (he says I'm a bad driver) and lexie was a champ. We watched frozen over and over and as long as she had her movie and snacks she was set. We pulled into rexburg as the sun was rising and got a quick 2 hour nap before we needed to be up for the parade! (One of the main reasons we went... You just can't beat a small town Fourth of July). Lexie basically had candy for breakfast from the parade but she loved every second of it! Jakes parents were actually out of town... (And coming to see us in California the following week!) so we just hung out with his siblings! 

After the parade we went up to island park for the day to hang out at our brother in laws family ranch. We pretty much intruded on their family reunion but we know them pretty good so we were glad to be there! We rode four wheelers, went to a retirement trailer park and they did a little parade (basically just threw candy to the kids), had a great dinner and ended the night with some fireworks. 

Lexie loved playing with her cousin Brynn!! 

Jake went golfing the next day with friends and later that night his younger sister tiara and her family came and stayed with us! Lexie and Keaton are about 7 months apart (I think?) and they were two peas in a pod! 

It was a great weekend and definitely worth the drive! On our way back we stopped to have dinner in Reno and we ate at a burger place that jakes cousin recommended to us. It was inside a casino and we were just waiting there for our food when a homeless man walked up to jake and snuck him a dollar bill and then walked away. It was the weirdest thing! Well when we were filling up with gas before we came home a man walked up to jake and asked him if he had any money.... So we put the dollar to good use!