July 2009

In July for Independence Day we had the missionaries over for dinner and then headed to our bishop's parents' home for a birthday party/4th of July celebration. It was such a beautiful night. I wish I had taken some pictures. There was a full moon, the kids were swimming and playing with sparklers in the Watson's amazing backyard and people were letting off fireworks all around that we could see. Plus everyone at the party brought a ton of fireworks! It was such a fun way to spend the fourth. My parents were up to visit a few days before that so we had a little celebration with fireworks then too. And then again on July 5th we let the kids do a few more sparklers at bed time so there are pictures of them running around in their pajamas. We love living in a state where we are allowed to do fireworks ourselves! We did have one little fire on our grass though that we had to put out. Oops!

We also took a trip to AZ in July and got to visit my parents cabin since the kids, especially Nathaniel, had been begging to go there all summer!