4TH OF JULY

Seriously, this is like my favorite holiday next to Christmas. I just love being out, going to parades, fireworks, playing in the sun. This year, we changed things up a bit and went and spent it with Cordelle's family. They are great, and I miss seeing his cousins (which many are more my age so its fun talking to). After being pushed back a day because of the previously mentioned crazy Cedar Weddings, we left Saturday morning to meet up at Aunt Myrnas for the famous 4th of July swimming party. She has this fantastic pool in the ground where all the cousins get together and have lunch and swim. Usually we dont go up that far on the 4th so we've missed it since we've had kids, but I was glad we went cause the kids loved it! Afterwards we hung out with Krista's kids a bit, had a barbeque with my parents and went to bed early. Sunday we went up to Cordelle's brother, Keith and Brooke's house in Lewiston (above Logan) for the first time in our married life. They were blessing their 6th child so we decided nows as good as good of time as ever! :) I was mad I didnt bring my camera cause I could've gotten pics of the fun things we did with Seth, Jaq and many of their Morris cousins. We checked out the cows, collected eggs from the chickens, played basketball and ate! Cordelle spent most of the day shooting guns with his brothers. Its a GUY thing I guess, cause I went out and shot the hand guns, shot guns, 22's and what not and was quite frankly pretty terrible at it. I did hit one clay pigeon, but I am pretty sure even that was an accident because my eyes were shut the whole time. It was nice chattin' it up with the sista in laws. They are incredible women! Anyways we left there around 7 to head back to South Jordan so we didnt have to make the whole trip home to Cedar in one day and within 3 minutes, a nap-less Jaq was out and within 10, so was Seth. So needless to say, we actually enjoyed a 2 hour Sunday drive, followed by a peaceful viewing of some street fireworks with no kids to chase. Nice.
Monday was chill, but Seth got to hang out with his all time favorite person in the world, Mason. I dont think I even said 3 words to him the entire day cause he followed that kid around like a trailer on a hitch. (well...until we had to leave, then the melt-down began). We made it back for the last 2 minutes of Enoch's fireworks and then stayed up and watched Cedar's from our back porch (by the way Enoch's fireworks kicked Cedar's trash and we only saw the last 2 minutes!). Anyways pretty fun 4th for us, perhaps not as exciting for you all to read, but hey, can't win 'em all. :)