fun-filled weekend

fourth of july is one of my favorite holidays. i love spending time outside, BBQing, watching parades and fireworks and enjoying summer. on saturday i went to the rexburg parade with my sister carissa and her husband kyle, then we went down to the fireworks in idaho falls, jared joined us after he got off work. the fireworks were great like always, and we had perfect seats, we could see them light them off! sunday after church we packed up all our camping gear picked up kyle and carissa and headed out to spend the night in the wilderness. ^kyle and carissa in a very packed car!^Our cute little campsite... poor carissa had bad allergies^we went on a little hike^and waited for our tin foil dinners to cook

^they were very yummy
Monday we spent all day outside swimming and frying like lobsters. it was a great weekend, and tuesday and school came all too quickly. luckily we only 2 more weeks left, then its GRADUATION time! i cant wait.

i did end my weekend with some sad news. i learned one of my old roommates (who was married the same summer as i was, and just had a baby girl in february) husband passed away over the weekend. ive been thinking a lot about her and her little girl this week, and it really makes you stop and think about how precious and short life is. i need to stop complaining about the daily tasks i need to do everyday and just enjoy being alive and healthy, married to a wonderful man and expecting a little one this year.

speaking of little ones, things are still moving along great (as far as i know)! i can tell my belly is growing every week, and i cannot wait to be able to feel this little one move!