Fourth of July Weekend!!!

We had so much fun for the fourth. We took Friday and Saturday off with Craig and Emily. First we ate a fabulous breakfast over at Craig and Emily's. We had eggs, bacon, waffles, and hash browns. YUM!! We helped with the cooking and Tyler used Emily's fancy apron she made. :)
Then after a fabulous breakfast, we packed up the Audi and headed to Denver. We spent the day at Elitch Gardens!









All of a sudden it started to rain like crazy!! So we had to take off for a little while and it was the heaviest rain I have ever seen!! The roads were turning into rivers in several spots and it also began to hail!!! But we escaped to Subway and then went back to Elitch to find half as long lines! YES!!




After Elitch Gardens we were super tired so we went and stayed in a fancy hotel! :) Ty's so good at finding good deals for super nice hotels! We end up spending less to go there than we would if we went to a motel 6!

This bed was wonderful!!!!!

The next day we woke up early and went to Golden Corral for their breakfast buffet. It was pretty yummy. Then we decided to go bowling!!! Craig wasted all our trash! But after a couple games Ty and I came in to the lead and ended up with a tied score!




After bowling we went to the mall and found the wonderful Brookestone store. We sat in those massage chairs for probably a good 45 minutes. :) It was soooooo nice! :)


After that our relaxing visit at Brookestone we went to the sunglass store where tyler was told that there is an Oakley store inside another mall not to far away. For those who don't know, Tyler LOVES Oakley shades and apparel. So we had to go! We got there a half hour before they closed and Tyler was in heaven!!! It was so funny! He was like a little boy in a candy store. We found some great deals and got him a zip up hoodie, and two t-shirts! He was so happy! I got to go shopping as well and got couple pairs of shorts and shirts on sale at Aeropostale.

Then we headed off to watch the air force band perform at a park and find a spot to watch some promisingly impressive fireworks. We asked a few of the fire fighters where the best spot to watch the fireworks would be and they told us right there on the lawn where the band was playing. They said they'd be pretty much on top of us! YES!!!!! We were so excited....well, they LIED!!!!!!!!!!!! The fireworks were like five miles away!!! Once they started everyone took off running to get closer to them. Tyler and I were able to get to a spot that was a lot closer, they still weren't "on top of us", but it was a lot better than where we were before. hah, either those fire fighters don't know what close means, or they were just trying to keep as many people far from the fireworks as possible. It ended up being a great show and one of the best finales I've seen.

After that we used a couple coupons a man was handing out and got some discounted ice cream from Cold Stone. YUM!!! We got Cake Batter ice cream with Raspberries mixed in! Delicious! After that we played some football in a parking lot while we waited for the traffic to go away and then headed home.

What a fun fourth!!! :) We love America!