We had great fourth of July this year. We were lucky enough to be able to drive up to Washington and enjoy the celebrations with the Dickson family. I say lucky and for those of you who know Jared will understand why. Jared being the super hard worker he is rarely takes work off, but he got Friday the third off and then being super sweet let us leave right after a long day at work on Thursday to begin our twelve hour drive. That night we made it to Missuola Montana and stayed the night. We left early that morning and made it to meet my parents at Alder Lake for a day of fun. My dad borrowed my grandpa's boat and we had a day of Swimming, boating, and good food of course :)
On the fourth we realxed at the house, visited, let the kids play in th kiddie pool and then that evening we went to my Grandma and Grandpa Dicksons house for the traditional family picnic and fireworks. I was so happy to be there it has been 5 years since i've been and didn't realize how much I missed it. The only thing I wish I could have done that i didn't was take a ride in my grandpa's antique red truck with grandkids around the neighborhood as all the kids shout happy fourth a July, but i didn't think it was a good idea for Cash to be in the back of the truck :) We ended the night with watching a big firework show on the Puget Sound. And then headed home sunday morning.
