4th of july weekend

well, we hope all of you had as much fun as we did over the fourth!?! we did go up to hart ranch in rapid city, s.d. but we did not end up going to rushmore as planned. we found out that they actually did them on the 3rd at rushmore and we didn't know that 'till it was too late. it was good anyway, because afterward we were watching the news and they said that they hoped to get the last of the cars out of the parking lot of rushmore by about 3:30 a.m. on the 4th. it's always packed on the fourth. we watched the fireworks on the t.v. on the 3rd and on the fourth we did a little shopping and relaxing and swimming. jacob of course loved the swimming! he was not happy when we decided to leave after about an hour/hour and a half. then on saturday, we went to "storybook island" in rapid and jacob had the time of his life! there are a bunch of characters and objects to climb on and play with and a park area and train that the kids can ride for .75 and lots more. we were only there for a couple hours, but could have spent MUCH more time there and the best part is, it was free except for the .75 train ride. then we went out for lunch and back to the cabin to rest and take naps... haha! jacob was soooo wound up after that, that he didn't want to sleep until it was about time for jason and i to go on a little date. so, we had to wake jacob up to go stay with grammy and grandpa for a couple hours while mommy and daddy went out to play glow in the dark putt-putt and go out for dinner. we had a great time being alone, which doesn't happen very often. then on sunday we got up and went to the restaurant for breakfast with grammy and grandpa. they went off to church and we played hookie and went swimming instead. we wanted to go at least one more time before we left and we kinda' wanted to get an early start back home, so we went swimming and then met up with grammy and grandpa for lunch before we left town. over all we had an awesome weekend! hope yours was good too!?!