Our 4th

We had a really nice weekend. It started with us celebrating that we had the house to ourselves this weekend by barbequing hamburgers and just having really good food all weekend. woohoo!
Saturday, we drove up Starkey and road our bikes 20 miles down to Hillgaurd. The weather was perfect and it was such a pretty ride!! We didn't want it to end. Jack and Ginger did really well together in the trailer. Ginger 'read' Jack stories and helped him with his binkie when it fell out.

Once we got to Hillgaurd, we hopped in the river to cool off and then Glen fired up the grill for Hot Dogs and S'mores! Yum!
( there was this lady there that just stared at us for a really long time and then finally asked me why I knew so much about her. I told her I didn't know anything about her. Then she asked my name (I didn't tell her my real name) and told us hers was Linda. It was kinda creepy the way she just stood like a soldier staring at us. We had seen her early on our bike ride up the mountain. She just stood and stared at us as we road past her. I think the lights were on but nobody was home or something.)

For our 4th of July dinner, we didn't do our traditional hamburgers, potoatoe salad, black berry pie etc. ( we did that sunday instead).
We were in the mood for Sushi! We made our own california rolls and salmon stacks! So GOOD!!! After that, we did some sparklers with Ginger. After the kids went to bed then Glen and I went back out to do a few more firecrackers. I think Glen's favorite part was chasing me with four lighted sparklers down our street in flip flops.

When Glen and I were dating, we did this very same thing for our 4th of July. It started with a bike ride (mountain biking) and then swimming and then fireworks.