4th of july weekend

What a weekend Mr. M and I had! I am so sad that it's over!

We went up to Mr. M's grandparents cabin in the Uinta Mountains.

I was so excited, and so was Mr. M that the day we left

felt like it went on forever! Finally though, it was time to leave.

We packed up the car and made our way north to the cabin.

It was such a relaxing weekend, plus this cabin is so awesome! it

doesn't even feel like your camping. Basically you get the

best of both worlds up there.

Mr. M and I stayed pretty active while relaxing at the same time

of course! Friday night we just hung out and visited with

Gma and Gpa Jackson and Mr. M's uncle Steve and his wife Emma.

Saturday morning we went on the sweetest 4 wheeler 

ride I've been on so far! 

We took this trail that had a natural spring run off

from all the snow that was still melting. Yep that's right, snow...

CRAZY!!!

 These people got stuck in the snow!

 Mr. M making a snow angel in the snow

I got to be pretty good at driving the 4 wheeler! It was so fun.

The rest of Saturday we enjoyed some hamburgers and grilled

corn, which was so yummy! We then hung out and played some games. 

We loved just being able to relax with family!

Sunday we drove into Wyoming and went to the ward that was

held there. Wow, what a different group of people! Some of

the nicest ones you'll meet. But there were full on cowboys there with

big belt buckles and cowboys boots. It was awesome.

That night Greg, Patty and their kids joined us and we

cooked up some s'mores over an awesome campfire that

Mr. M created and enjoyed each other's company!

 Luke enjoying his s'more

Cute Jake enjoying more chocolate than he can handle!

 The JUMBO marshmallows we used

 Some of the gang by the fire

Greg trying not to get s'more in his beard

We finished the night by watching a movie

and playing a couple rounds of Settlers with the family.

(love that game!)

Monday.

The 4th of July.

My favorite day!

We had so much fun this day, even though the weather

didn't want to cooperate! It was drizzling and cold,

but I wasn't going to let it ruin our day!

We started out with a yummy breakfast.

Mr. M, Steve, and I then headed out to go do some shotgun

shooting. I have never been before and I was excited and

a tee bit nervous! But it was awesome.

Here I am shooting Steve's gun...it was so cool!

Mr. M shooting his gun...isn't he adorable?

I did pretty good! I was able to hit 3 of the clay pigeons...out

of the 50 that were thrown for me! Haha. But still, I think

for a first timer, who's never shot a gun, that's not too shabby!

Mr. M did WAY better than me of course...he's pretty awesome.

After we had used all of our boxes of shotgun shells, and

my arm was numb from the kick of the gun, we decided to call

it good and headed back to the cabin. We spent the rest of the lit part

of the day playing another round of Settlers and then eating

a BBQ dinner that was mighty tasty!

Once the sun started setting, we packed up and headed

to Evanston, Wyomin for some firework fun!

Boy was I in for a treat...holy cow!

This place was insanely sweet. There were fireworks going off

from every end and spot you could think of. We were

darting left and right to miss the things flying at us.

I have never seen something like this before.

I just had to capture it on film.

You can't really see all the fireworks, but you can

hear all of them going off in the background!

We found the rest of the family and starting lighting

all the fireworks that uncle Greg bought.

Boy what a show!

Mr. M decided to get some fireworks of his own and 

was lighting that off. He is quite the pyro-expert!

For his last firework he connected four different ones

together to create a firework spectacular.

It started out pretty good, and then it back fired. Haha.

One of the motors that was connected to the rest of the fireworks

tipped over and instead of shooting upwards, it shot sideways,

into all of us. It was hilarious! No one was hurt, but it was

pretty funny. One of the sparks ended up hitting

Luke in the bum, the one person who hated all fireworks

to begin with. Oh it was funny!

 Drew and Mr. M

Overall it was a great 4th of July.

We loved getting away for the weekend and

can't wait to get away again this weekend!