This year, independence day had a little bit of a different meaning for Josh. We are still very grateful for our country and our forefathers, but July 3rd was Josh's very last day of school...FOREVER!!!!! So he was really excited about that. He started the day off by waking up early to finish his VERY LAST PAPER EVER! (Trust me, I was as excited about that as he was, because that means that it was the VERY LAST PAPER EVER that I will have to edit.) Then he took a three hour test that didn't count toward his grade whatsoever but is used by the college to see how well they are teaching. When I came home around 4:00 he was zonked out on the Love Sac :)That night we went to the fireworks, and hopefully I might put pictures of that on here someday. The next morning, we woke up at the crack of dawn (okay, like 7) to run the Honeyville 5K, which is basically the one event that haunts me all year. But this year I felt like I could run at least pretty well. My goal was to beat Josh, because this will be the only year EVER that I will be able to beat Josh. And I did! :) He was really great to me, because he paced me at the beginning, and made sure that I was running a good pace, then, about half way through he told me that if he started to slow down, I should just keep up my pace. (I didn't believe him that that would ever happen, but sure enough, he slowed down, I kept running, and he congratulated me at the end.) (Since he was so great, I couldn't rub it in so much that I beat him.) I got second in my age category for the girls, and Josh got third for his age category for the boys. So I would say a job well done for the both of us!
Immediately after the 5K, we, with some of Josh's family headed out to drive to South Dakota. On the way, we stopped at Martin's Cove in Wyoming, which was one of the places that the Mormon Pioneers stopped on their trek, and one of Josh's ancestors was in the company there. The pictures are of Josh and I pushing handcarts.
Then we drove for a very long time, stayed the night in Rapid City, South Dakota, and the next morning went to Mount Rushmore!
