The Dennis Family: July 2014

WHEW! The last 2 weeks were pretty rough on me with my Dad being in the hospital and not being close by. Plus you know me, the worrier, we have until December to find an internship for Eric and figure out our "grown up" lives. Also my work has been really inconsistent, I may start a masters program, I'm planning a ginormous pretend trip because we have no money, and trying to figure out when the next Dennis baby should come. Why do I do this to myself? My sister Kj and I like to plan :) and nothing ever goes as planned! Anyways, needless to say, I was so excited for the July 4th festivities to have a break from all the crazy. We continued the tradition of Driggs Freedom Celebration last weekend. I got choked up because for 1) I am turning into my Mom and patriotic things make me cry, and 2) I realized that it was our last year there (at least it better be ha). It was ridiculously cold for this time of year but we still loved it! We were planning a trip to WA for the 4th but couldn't make it this month. So we decided to make the best of it and we attended the Rexburg parade, had pool party and BBQ with Zach and Lizzy. Okay it was Ruby's pool and rather too small to swim. But the 92 degree weather was much better than the 65 degree Drigg's day. We spent a mere $6 on fireworks, which is totally cool when you have a toddler. Then we headed over to the very large city of Menan (population of 741) and enjoyed their firework show. It was actually way fun! We love the small town atmosphere and they did put on a large show for how small the town is. We put our blankets out on the baseball field with a bunch of strangers and celebrated our amazing country with giant fireworks that felt like they were going to explode in my face! Ruby loved it and I can't wait to start new traditions wherever we may be next year.