4th of July weekend

We just returned from our 4th of July weekend. We were able to go up to Cindy's dad's house in Dearborn Montana right on the Missouri River. It was so much fun!! It was so gorgeous!! I love love love vacations when you don't look at a clock. We did have to sleep in a tent but it was wonderfully chilly and we all have good sleeping bags and they did allow us inside the house to shower and such so it was the good kind of camping. There was actually 19 people, 2 dogs, 2 rabbits and 1 hamster habitating with us this weekend. Just some of the highlights were:

• floating down the river in float tubes
• finding a waterfall we could hike to
• riding the four wheelers around
• eating 17 s'mores
• eating 17 soft serve ice cream cones that came from the soft serve ice cream machine that resides in their garage
• seeing 17 deer close enough to see the whites of their eyes
• watching the 4th of July parade in Great Falls Montana and seeing the 17 Lewis and Clark lookalikes in the parades
• lighting fireworks 3 nights over the river so with the reflection we could say we got 6 damn good firework shows
• Chase and Braxton only getting road rash from their dirt bike crashes when it could have been a lot worse

It was a 7 1/2 hour drive up there but it was worth it. I loved every minute of it. Thanks Cindy and Brian for inviting us. Thank you Betsy and Kyle for everything.