4rth of July and Stephen's birthday

I know its been a while since the fourth of July and Stephen's birthday, but I still want to write about both those days. Last year on the 4rth of July Steve, our friend Chris, and I went on a four wheeler ride and we had so much fun that we wanted to do it again this year. So Steve, Chris, Chris's cousins and I all went on a 4rth of july ATV ride. We went and drove around on Cove mountain, which is an amazingly beautiful mountain! During part of the ride it started to rain so we went and stood under some pine trees to keep us dry from the rain and built a fire. The rain was coming down realy heavy and there was lots of thunder and lightning. The pine trees we stood under did a very good job at keeping us dry so we were enjoying the storm. When the storm ended we got back on our ATV's and drove up to a spot where we could see all the towns way down below us, it was a cool view. We hung out at that spot for a while and then got back on our wheelers and started riding again. The mountain was even more beautiful after that rain storm, it seemed so fresh! We saw a bunch of elk (mostly bulls) in a clearing so we decided to drive further down the road towards them to see if we could get a closer look at them. We parked our 4wheelers and walked quietly through some trees towards the clearing. When we got to the edge of the trees next to the clearing we just sort of hid behind them as we looked at the elk. There were so many bull elk with big antlers on their heads, it was awsome! The mosquito's were biting us like crazy though! After the ATV ride Stephen and I were realy hungry so we went to burger king and then went and watched fireworks with a bunch of Stephen's family. There is actually a realy good firework display in Richfeild on the 4rth.

On the 8th of this month it was Stephen's 27th birthday. Steve got some hammock's for his birthday so that he and I can lay outside at night and watch for meteor's, we both love to do that. The only reason we got a hammock for me as well on Stephen's birthday, is because Stephen won't even use his unless I have one too because he told me that he would just want to have me use the hammock if there was only one ( he's such a gentleman ). Stephen didn't realy want to have a cake on his birthday because he doesn't even like cake that much, in fact he didn't want any sweets because they usually make him feel sick , so He and I just went to our favorite restaraunt El Mexicano with Steve's brother, his brothers wife and kids, his parents, and a friend. El Mexicano has such extremely delicious food! Steve's dad told our waitress that it was Steve's birthday so she brought a sombrero and a mexican poncho for Stephen to wear. Steve was realy embarassed with the hat and poncho on, so after we took some pictures of him with them on he took them off. I am happy that Stephen had fun on his birthday. Stephen and I havn't laid under the stars with our hammocks yet, but we want to soon.