fourth of july.

robert: "have you ever noticed that you like to go all out on holidays and have a bunch of things planned? rather than just chilling?"

...uh fine i love holidays okay. it's just who i am. #sorrynotsorry

i want to say "the fourth of july is one of my favorite holidays," but i've probably said that about every other holiday too at some point. so. i will refrain. 

anyway. we did have a really nice time this weekend, although we didn't get as much sleep as we would have liked. 

we started off saturday morning bright and early (5:30) and went to the balloon fest. 

robert isn't a huge fan of mornings, but he is a huge fan of me, and i'm a huge fan of balloons...so obviously we had to go. 

 

they were so big and there were so many of them! it was a lot fun walking around the field as giant balloons blew up around us. we even poked a couple of them just because we could. 

 (we were thoroughly entertained by the old man blowing giant flames into that balloon.)

giant. balloons. everywhere. i loved it. 

 hot husband > hot air balloons. (just for the record.)

sorry- i took about a million pictures but i couldn't help myself. it was too cool. 

 the pictures don't do it justice, but trust me: it was neat. 

we bought some plants to help cheer up the apartment (which is coming together quite nicely; perks of having parents who decided to get rid of all their stuff.)

being married is cool because your husband loves you and will probably do all of the things you always wanted to do but never could do because of little brothers; we went to the freedom days market every day it was open. we got henna tattoos. we got giant turkey legs. and robert didn't even complain when i kept wanting to go back. <3

of course, no fourth of july weekend would be complete without ice cream. shout out to maceys for giving away free mini ice creams. and shout out to robert for walking over and getting me one. 

market: round 3. fajitas in a pita. we approve. 

something great about robert is that he eats desserts (like fruit pizza) with me, even though he doesn't really like them. that's true love. 

you know what sucks about the fourth of july being on a monday? you get the monday off, but then you have to go to work the next day after staying up all night watching fireworks. 

  

.....but,

worth it.

because fireworks.

we went and saw tarzan at the thanksgiving point megaplex, and we timed it just right so that the fireworks would start right after our movie ended. (which was a great idea, because we didn't have to worry about finding good parking; we'd already parked 3 hours before!)

i'm so grateful to live in the US.
(also grateful for my cute husband who is so nice and does anything and everything to make me happy.)
it was a 10/10 weekend.
<3