Freedom Rules

This Fourth of July was a fun quick 3 day weekend. The Hansen's came to town and arrived Saturday Afternoon.

It started off fun, the boys & David got "marine cuts" up on base. We then came home and made Easy Hawaiin Kalua Pork Pizza and it's amazing! We had a nice easy evening of just hanging out and playing around.

Sunday morning, we went to sacrament meeting. We had a lot of fun listening to testimonies. For the Hansen's, they said it was nice being in a military ward and not in Utah so it was focused on America's freedom rather then the Pioneers as that celebration is also in July. One of the first testimonies was from a 12 year old boy and he talked about how he was glad we won the Revolutionary War so we could have the freedom to practice whatever religion.

After Sacrament Meeting we came home real quick, put the dogs in the kennels and left to go get some lunch and play downtown. We went to the The Corvette Diner and us adults all ate some yummy cheeseburgers! We then went to downtown and caught a 2 hour cruise around the bay. It's always lots of fun and we enjoyed seeing everything. We then went to the Maritime Museum where we toured a Russian Submarine & an American Submarine. Made me really appreciate being an American when differing the living conditions!

We finally made it home late that night and David cooked us up some amazing carne asada that we put in burritos. I'm going to say it, David is amazing with the grill! We then had ice cream cone cupcakes for dessert and they were yummy as well!

Monday morning, we all got up around the same time, but we took it easy. Donna & I made us French Toast with Berry Butter and replaced the half & half with buttermilk. We also didn't have enough maple syrup so we made Buttermilk Syrup. I had never had buttermilk syrup, but I don't know if I will ever be able to go back! It was so good.

That afternoon we headed to Coronado Beach where we had a fun afternoon and that evening we went to the La Jolla Fireworks. They were beautiful, felt like we were right under them!

We had so much fun this weekend and are missing then Hansen's when we woke up Tuesday morning. Thanks for visiting!