4th of July weekend fun

Saturday
Chris and Sara were kind enough to watch the boys so that Tyson and I could go out and see a movie  IN THE THEATER that we thought we couldn't wait to see.  The Last Airbender turned out to be pretty poorly made, but the fun of actually going out on a date together was still worth it.
Then we stayed at Chris and Sara's and they fed us burgers from the grill and brownies!!  The kiddy pool was filled up, and Thomas and the boys played and had so much fun!

Sunday
Since we were out late sat night, the boys didn't get their baths or anything that night in prep for church sunday.  But we still managed to get them all bathed and fed and we got all ready and made it to church ON TIME! 
- we have to be early to church here, or we don't get a seat - there are just too many people in our ward, and the building is just too small.  So we got there with time to spare and there still weren't seats left.  They had to set up chairs between the pews and the over flow area (in the walking asile).  Turns out that there was 4 baby blessings - so it was even more crowded than usual.  Although I swear we have had 2-4 baby blessings every month here since we moved in, so maybe we should just expect it.
After church we just had a nice relaxing day at home - we made bbq ribs and corn on the cob on the grill (have I mentioned yet how much we LOVE grilling???)

Monday
We went to Newton "Lake".  (We are all trying to get out of the habit of calling it "The Dam" cuz we don't want the kids saying Dam ).
Dad had the kyaks and the canoe and lifejackets of every size.  Everyone made it up to splash around and have lunch.  It was a really great outing!  And everyone of us enjoyed it so much, we talked about doing it again next weekend :) 
We were a little ill-prepared since it was our first outing of the summer.  It's funny how it takes a little "getting into the swing of things" sometimes, to get it all right.  I remember getting the car packed up, and thinking that there was something in the garage that I needed to bring.  It wasn't until we got up there that I realized it was our camping chairs.  We also could have brought up an extra table for the lunch spread - as more people came the more food came too :)

After the fun at the "lake", we drove home, and the kids fell asleep!  We were counting on that.  We had to make a quick stop to get milk at the store, and I made Tyson drop me off and keep driving to keep them asleep. They needed the nap so they could stay awake for fireworks.
We came home ate some dinner and then just before 9pm we went to Brigham City.  The sun went down, but it didn't get dark til 10.  I kept thinking how crazy it was that I was keeping the kids up so late.  But once the fireworks started, it was worth it.
The only setback was that our usual spot we watch the fireworks from - on the side lawn at Box Elder High School - decided to run their sprinklers at 10:15 about halfway thru the fireworks show.  We all ran to the sidewalk to finish watching the show.  No harm done, just a bit of an annoyance.  I didn't get any pictures of the rest of the night, because I had taken so many at the dam, the card was full - and then the battery died as I was trying to look thru the pics to delete  a few.  Oh well.  It was memorable without pics :)