The Fourth of July

A continuation of 'Denied . . .'

The weekend after our pool experience, I spent in Utah with my family. We went to Stadium of Fire with the family on that Saturday, which happened to be the 2nd of July that year.  It was a real nice time spending it with family. I really love spending time with my family, it is important and fun to me. My sisters and I did our hair crazy and made a real good time of it, we even got my brother to join in :). We had fun taking pictures . . . (As you will see below)

Side Profile of our crazy hair.

Front Profile.

Jumping profile.

Kiss-ie Face Profile.

All the Girls Profile.

Parachute man coming in with the flag!

The F-16s made a grand fly by and sent my country pride free flowing.

It really was a 'Stadium of Fire'. :)

Monday, the Fourth of July, my family and I woke up at the bright and early time of 7 AM to attend a traditional early morning flag ceremony and breakfast at my grandparents church. We had been attending that flag ceremony and breakfast for years and I loved it! The crisp cool air stole any sleep from my eyes, the bright morning sun peaked over the mountain illuminating our country's flag , peacefully reminding me of the beautiful and free country that we live in. It was a beautiful, picture perfect moment listening to The Star Spangled Banner being sung while the flag was raised.

We have a great country.
We are blessed to live here.
I love America!

After the traditional pancake, bacon, egg, and sausage breakfast we headed back north to Idaho to participate in the holiday festivities there with more family. I was excited to get home speedily for two reasons:

 First: Izac and I had plans to spend most of the day together (I hadn't seen him for two days and I kinda missed him).

Second: The Fourth of July is my favorite holiday (my favorite holiday combined with my favorite man was bound to be a good day).

My aunt and uncle always have a BBQ at their house on the Fourth. Izac met us there and was able to meet my family and extended family. It was so good to see him. We shared a nice, long, warm embrace in greeting before I took him to meet the family. It is typical of my family to try and 'tease' and 'scare' newcomers to the family circle and they gave Izac his fair share of it. He took it well and joked and teased back with them. It made me happy that he like them and had fun with their kidding.

Our next adventure was to meet Izac's family . . . In Izac and I's conversations, the topic of our families came up frequently. He told me about his parents and siblings and I told him about mine. From what I had learned of our past conversations, he was pretty close to his dad. They had worked hard together and Izac learned a lot from his dad.

I was very intimidated and nervous to meet his family. I was the first and only girl that he had brought home to 'meet-the-family'. I was really worried that I wouldn't measure up to their expectations. I wanted them to like me. I was really taking a liking to their son and brother and I wanted this relationship to keep progressing. The situation distressed me and I spoke of my anguishes to Izac the whole way to his house (I am surprised that my 'blubbering-when-I-was-worried' habits didn't scare him off. . .).

My hands were clammy with the nerves that were free flowing out of my dermis. His family was also having a BBQ and we went around back to meet them, hand in hand. Everyone was real nice, kind and generous to me. It really wasn't as bad as I was thinking that it was going to be. It was one of those things that was nice to have over with though.

After the BBQ we went to the Idaho Falls Fireworks. Izac and I, being bike people, took our bikes to ride our way around the Greenbelt. It was beautiful outside and it was fun riding side by side with such a stud. He was my tall, dark, and handsome and I loved introducing him to everyone that we saw through our travels. We ran into one of my close friends and ended up sitting by them for the show. They had a great view of the fireworks, directly across the river from where they were shot off. We laid side by side, hand in hand and watched the spectacular fireworks. We celebrated the freedom that we enjoy together watching the night sky burst with flame, and listening to the musical program made just for those fireworks.

 Fireworks!

 More Fireworks!

Izac and I on the Fourth of July! (Aren't we cute? :) )

After the fireworks ended we headed back north to our apartments; we had to get my car that was parked at my parents house. After doing so we continued north. The traffic was crazy (meaning really, really bad)  because they were doing construction on the highway and everyone was coming home from the fireworks. Traffic was basically at a stand-still. We decided to take the back roads to get back to Rexburg, we ended up getting lost and playing a version of leap frog in our cars. Even though we were in different cars it was a great time! We made it fun and finally ended up getting home real late.

There on the apartment door step he pulled me into a close embrace, topping off my wonderful day, making my favorite holiday even better. He pulled his head back and rested his forehead on mine. . .

My heart was racing with his closeness. . .

All pictures came from my camera.