Birthday Weekend!

I always liked having my birthday on a holiday weekend, it makes it feel like it lasts more than a day and everyone celebrated! Lucky for me, Marc didn't have school on Thursday or Friday, so we had more time to celebrate! Since his hand is broken and he can't do too much on his own, he couldn't go get my present, but he had a fun back up plan. We went to Idaho Falls and ate lunch at Olive Garden, gotta love the all you can eat soup, salad, and breadsticks for $6.95! I forgot to take pictures at lunch! Then we went to the mall and some of the stores around there. Marc bought me Twilight and told me I could get a new vinyl lettering sign for our new apartment. We started to drive home and the sky turned dark and it started to rain pretty hard. Here is a pretty cool picture Marc took of the clouds from the car.

We waited a little bit then went to the local Farmers Market, we got some yummy kettle corn and fresh peas. It was raining pretty hard so we decided to leave. My wonderful family sent me a gift card to coldstone since they knew Marc wouldn't be able to bake me a cake. We went to look at the cakes and they now have ice cream cupcakes! We decided to get those! Here is a picture of me with my yummy cupcakes! They are so good! I highly recommend them!

After eating cupcakes we watched Twilight to finish out the night! Over all it was a fun birthday!
We decided we wanted to watch the parade in town of the 4th. We left about 45 minutes before it started and went to the park to have a breakfast picnic and watch it. We were pretty hot the sun was shining right on us! But we got a good spot and had fun! Here are some pictures from the parade!



There was an assisted living home that brought all their residents to the parade. Those poor people were melting in the sun! Then this military fire truck came by...

The poor people were soaked and couldn't run like we did to get away! Needless to say some were pretty upset!
One of Marc's favorites was this huge motorized shopping cart, he thought they should have been giving out food!

We did get free chocolate milk from the Cream of Weber Semi! I did have to fight my way through parents grabbing 10 or more for them and their kids! After the parade we walked around the park. They had tons of booths set up selling just about everything you could think of! We got some delicious homemade tamales! We have missed real mexican food, it curbed our craving!
We came home and hung out for a couple of hours then set off to another park to watch the fireworks. We left about an hour and a half before sundown thinking we could read and play games in the park. After about an hour we were getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and decided to come back home. We got bundled up to stop the bugs from biting and because it was cold and sat outside. We have a grass area off our balcony so we set chairs out there. There were 2 shows in town and we could see them both from our seats, not to mention all the people in the neighborhood that were setting off their own! Other than the people that set them off in our parking lot, pretty much 50 feet from our bedroom window, from about 11:30 to 12:30 it was a good day! We how you all had a fun weekend like we did!