July 2013

Another fun month! On the Fourth of July, we had a delicious lunch at the Cheesecake Factory,  crab cooked by Cason for dinner, and en went downtown with the Hankla's for the fireworks. We had never gone before, but thought Lilli was finally old enough to really appreciate it. We got there early, and surprisingly enough, was pretty stress free ( nothing like the commotion of the Idaho falls fireworks).  Lilli played with Lucas while we waited for the show to start, and made some other friends- she literally makes friends where ever she goes! There was a little hiccup when Lil announced that she had to go potty and I had to go into a dark port-a-potty with her, but we survived it, and didn't miss any of the show. Lilli was AMAZED. Cason asked her which ones were her favorite color, and told her to yell any time she saw them, so every time a green firework she would say "YELL!!!!" And would shout "all of the colors!!!!!" When more than one color would go off. Later on she decided he needed to get the part started and started yelling, "everybody clap!!!!!" ( something she learned from the circus), and of course...nobody did. To which she would respond " i guess people can't hear me" , and would yell even louder. Everyone probably got pretty sick of her, but we thought it was hilarious. And to make things even better, Lucas was a dream baby and slept through almost the whole thing.

The next day, we headed to Utah to see Cason's family, and to go to Lagoon. Jesse came to the park with us,and we all had a blast! Lilli loved her first ride at kiddie land, and was so brave the rest of the day. She was game with any ride we put in front of her, even the big kid ones. She would sometimes say that the ride was " a little bit scary, but really fun". Her favorite was the bumper cars, and  one of the kiddie water rides.

After we had lunch, we changed into our bathing suites and headed over to lagoons black. What. A. Bummer. I hated it. Lilli of course loved it, because she loves water, but he was too little to go down any of the water slides, so there was nothing to do. However, when it was time to leave lilli threw a HUGE fit because she thought the water was more "funner" than the rides. But after a time out, and a slushie, we were good to go, and she of course loved all of the rides.

The day ended on a bad note with a torrential rain storm, and Cason in a terrible mood. Lilli and I went down a water ride a few times ( she would giggle the whole way down, it was adorable), and then we made a mad dash to the car, ending with us all soaked to the bone.


The following day was Sunday, and we all relaxed with Cason's family.

On Monday, we decided to head back to lagoon since we didn't get to all of the rides on Saturday. Lilli was a bit more apprehensive this time, and I don't know why, but she eventually warmed up, and had fun.

I had to be at work the following afternoon, and despite my efforts to convince Cason to drive home on Tuesday morning, he insisted that we leave that night. We were tired. We were burnt. A five hour drive did not sound fun. We got packed up only to discover that our car wouldn't start. Luckily, it was just a problem with the battery, and we got it going, but at that point it was LATE. Again, I tried to convince him to wait until morning, but it was a no go. It was one of the scariest nits of my life. I can't count the number of times that Cason nodded off behind the wheel, and I was having a hard time as well. We stopped a couple of times, but we couldn't risk too. Inch because A: we didn't know if the car would start up again and then we would be stranded at a scary truck stop, and B: any time we stopped lilli would wake up and freak out, making it impossible for us to get any rest.  Anyway... We got into a huge fight, and were miserable, but we made it home around 5 am, and I made it to work that afternoon thanks to my sister giving me a ride.

Despite the crappy end, we had a great trip. Lilli asks me at least once a week when we get to go back to " goon", and she will tell anyone about all of the fun rides she went on.

Later in the month, Nicole and Dylan came to Boise, and we had fun playing with them.