~Celebrate America Weekend~

This last weekend was the Drigg's Celebrate American Event. I personally think that it is way better than even the 4th of July show that Idaho Falls does on the 4th, so I was really excited that we decided to go this year. We went two years ago and had a ball, so our expectations were high. We weren't going to head to Driggs until about 3, so Rob actually woke up early on Saturday, and got to work. He recently bought a wrecked Ford Ranger. Yes, that does make for 3 useless trucks that we now have on our property. However, he is going to swap out the body on this wrecked one for the body on our old tan Ranger since this one still ran fine, the kid had just rolled it, and ours had a great body still, we just totally killed the transmission and stuff. Once it is done he will either sell it (the original plan) or else keep it as a fun mudding and adventure truck (his new and improved plan). Either way I told him it just had to be done before baby got here, so he was eager to start. He only spent about 3 hours on the truck, but I think he made quite a dent in those three hours. Somehow we forgot to get a pic of it before he started, but I was way impressed with how much he got done, especially since Weston followed him the entire time and waited for him to put a tool down just so Weston could pick it up, bang it on the truck, and move it to Weston's "secret tool pile." Poor Rob patiently spent a lot of time trying to find Weston's piles of tools that he needed. It was so ridiculously cute!! We got to Driggs around 4:30 and had a lot of choices of where to sit and stake out territory. However, by 7 we had to confine Weston to the size of our blanket for roaming space because there were so many people there. Weston was in heaven the whole day running around and getting into everything that he shouldn't. We got to see the beach boys perform, and the fireworks finally started around 10. The poor kid was exhausted but was so excited to see the "fire-erks." He was ecstatic when they finally started, and about half way through he crawled up on Rob's lap, cuddled into him and said "night-night." He is SO NOT A CUDDLER...EVER. Rob definitely soaked it up as Weston watched the rest of show out of the corner of his eye while he cuddled with his daddy. Seriously adorable. We got all loaded up after the show and the kid was asleep before we even pulled out of our parking space. I'd say all in all, it was a HUGE success :)

This is close to what it looked like originally; just put the hood, grill, doors and windows back on :)

less then 3 hours later!

There were kind of... A LOT of people there!

The kid was so sleepy that only taking pictures would keep him pacified