The 4th.

On the 3rd Robert and I went down to Fillmore with his family.  We went down for a family reunion, and we also went down to see Robert's grandparents in the parade (they were the grand marshals).  The day before the parade we got to watch a free movie at this old school theater.  We watched "The Croods".  I love that movie!

The movie screen is behind those curtains.

The Fillmore parade sure was somethin'...  I thought the Mapleton parade was small, but boy was I wrong hahaha.  It took like an hour, but there were like 10 cars (okay maybe like 15) throughout the entire parade so each group was spread out in 5 minute intervals.  So it felt like the majority of the time I was just sitting there staring off in the distance as the next car slowly drove toward us.  On the plus side, I got a huge otter pop :)

The Grand Marshals sitting in the back seat of a spiffy car.

Someone brought coolio hats that we wore.

Making a dumb face cuz the sun was in my eyes.  And look at my horrible posture.  I look like a giraffe with my neck sticking out.

Yup.  That was the bumpin' parade. The family reunion was shortly after.  It involved lots of good food, chatting with others, and cleaning up.  We got to relax a little after all the hard work before we got back in the car to go back up north.

That night I went to my grandparent's house with Robert and we met my long lost cousin (okay not really long lost, but that's a whole 'nother story).
**Random tangent:  Saying  "a whole 'nother story" out loud sounds normal, but "nother" isn't even a word...  But it sounds just as weird saying "a whole another story".  Anyone even know what's correct??
Back to the story.  We met my cousin and her adoptive parents, and we played volleyball outside on the lawn (which is definitely not my sport).  After we got a private concert from Emma/Kandice (my long lost cousin) and her dad.  Robert sang a song as well, along with McKell and Tanaya.  After the "concert", my dad performed some magic tricks for Kandice and her parents while we waited for it to get a little darker for fireworks.  My uncle, Gary, then gave his annual reading of the Declaration of Independence, and off went the fireworks.  There was no need to go to the Stadium of Fire since some of our fireworks were pretty much Stadium of Fire worthy.  I stuck around for an attempted game of Capture the Flag (attempted because the layout was weird and we didn't really clarify some of the rules so both teams were doing different things haha.  And we just weren't getting anywhere with the game.)  The rest of the group decided to play Sardines, but it was late and Robert and I needed to get home for work early in the morning (bleh).  So here I am... at work... where hardly anyone is.

Here were some of many hot air balloons above our apartment complex as Robert and I left for work in the early morning.