I love the late nights and late mornings. I love the warmer weather where nothing is required except a t-shirt, flowy skirt and a pair of well-worn flip-flops. I love popsicles and watermelon and having no school. I like our life without all the distractions that the school year brings! It has been a good summer.
July started with lots of Carr family coming into town for the 4th of July. We LOVE spending time with family...especially cousins. My children live for the time they spend with cousins. It is always a jam-packed, fun few days when everyone is together.
We spent a great afternoon up in Park City one day. Summer is just not summer without an overpriced ride on an Alpine slide!
It has now become 4th of July tradition for all the cousins to ride on Uncle Josh's World War II tank in the Freedom Festival Grand Parade. This was HB's first year riding the tank...and I suspect it will not be her last. The kids love it!
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View from the top of the tank along the parade route.
After the parade, we all congregate for buckets and buckets of KFC, rootbeer and lots of swimming.
I love, love, love this family that understands perfectly that you absolutely cannot run out of mashed potatoes and gravy...if one container is good than 25 containers must be paradise!!!
Tuckered out from all the wild festivities.
It has been sobering to watch and hear about all the wildfires that have been burning across the state of Utah. The scariest was the one that burned on the mountain right in our own "backyard".
Fun and games all day long...this sister-in-law has fabulous biceps...mine may be a little chubby but I do carry around an 18 pound chunk of delicious every day. We finally called it a tie and ate some more mashed potatoes and gravy.
During the time family was in time we tried to jam in as much "play" time as possible. Spent the afternoon shopping and lunching with the girls at City Creek one day...and HB explored the dancing fountains...and got DRENCHED in the process. Had to swing by H&M for dry clothes...
Another day the "big" cousins went and did a space mission at the local space center and the younger cousins opted for a very fancy tea party at our house. These girls know their fancy! They dressed up, made place mats, selected their teapots and cups, and held their pinkies up in the air the whole time.
Meanwhile the older cousins and a couple of friends protected the universe from hostile invaders.
The kids on board their space ship...
And of course any space adventure has to end with a sno-cone!
Wait a minute...how did this picture get in here? That IS my cute baby but I'm sure he isn't eating a sno-cone because what irresponsible mother would feed her 6 month old a sno-cone?! And he may or may not think that sno-cones are the greatest thing EVER...
So many more happy days to talk about...but we need to take a break...stay tuned for Part 2...
