Fourth of July Weekend!

I love the Fourth of July! I'd have to say that it's probably my favorite holiday. There's nothing better than a holiday during the summer made up of sun and bbqs and chillaxing all day - not to mention celebrating our freedom as a nation and wearing/decorating everything red, white and blue! We started our holiday weekend last night by going out to mexican food and shopping. It was great!

Will picked up some new running shoes ...

since he's got the "bug" now too.

The most exciting part of last night for me would have to be finding a fireworks stand way in SW Denver!! Back home there are fireworks stands on EVERY corner - but fireworks are illegal here (probably because its so dry) but I was so excited to find a stand in some "unincorporated" corner of Denver. I really just wanted some sparklers since they're my favorite - but we bought just a few little extra items too.... because we don't want to get in trouble of course (since we live so close to downtown).

Our fireworks "spread"

Not as much as I'd have in Washington - but I'm happy anyway....

Plus I didn't want to shell out $100 in fireworks!

Today Will and I went to Cherry Creek State Park for some jet skiing with his dad, sister and friend Dwayne - his mom joined us later on in the day. It was pretty fun - and we got quite a bit of sun!! We were originally going to go camping this weekend - but decided it would be more fun to stay around here and do some of the things we don't normally get to do.

A lovely photo of Dwayne and Will - hamming it up of course.

Grilling burgers for lunch.

Relaxing ... pretty much what we did all day : )

This would be Will, Dwayne and Shannon in the pic.

I think I got the most sun.

This is me near the end. I got quite red - mostly my shoulders and arms.

These are the skis - and our "spot" for the day.

I think I got the most sun since in the bottom left corner of the next pic you can see the lounge chair/floaties that I laid out on most of the time, while everyone else was sitting higher up on the beach in the shade (as in the pic earlier) Maybe next time I'll sit in the shade (probably not).

Shannon and Dwayne headed out:

In the parking lot at the end of the day:

This is later in the afternoon - chilling at home.

You can see how red I got.

We were inside because of the next photo......

Lovely Denver Summer Thunderstorms.

This one was MAJOR and this doesn't do it justice.

The cracks of thunder were setting car alarms off and freaking our cat out!

More rain...

We were smart enough to drive to Chipotle right during this storm so we got to drive through seriously flooded streets! Just running to and from the car made us soaked - and we were only about 10 feet from the door! One hour later it was sunny and totally blue skies again. Lovely. Good thing we left Cherry Creek just an hour before this storm. Hopefully our sunburns calm down before tomorrow because Water World is on our agenda!

And Just for Fun.....

This is Abby in what we like to call "her apartment". We got it so she would stop clawing the end of the bed - but since we got it for her she spends more time laying in it than hanging out with us! (She also doesn't claw it - she only sleeps on it .. and yes she still claws the bed).

We love her anyway.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!