A way too busy 24th of July week

Our 24th celebrating started on the 23rd. First that day I took the boys to the free movie at the movie theater which was Aladdin I thought they would enjoy it after that we raced home for the boys to take a short nap while I got ready to go to the parade. Paul's family always goes and saves spots right at the beginning by the announcing tower because before the parade starts the give away lots of free stuff and get the most candy because it is the beginning. So we went to that and the kids had a blast. I left the kids there with Paul's sister and went and meet Paul to go to the Deseret News Marathon VIP dinner me and Paul have been helping out at since before we were married. Paul got the volunteer of the year award we ate good food and got to listen to Peter Breinholt perform. Then once that was done we raced back home to watch the fireworks and get our kids from Paul's sister. The next day Paul helped out at the race in the morning while I stayed home with the kids and got ready for that afternoon/evening were we went to Paul's parents house for swimming, BBQ and fireworks. The little kids and big kids (AKA men) had fun Paul and his brothers every year make a sparkler firework and each year it get bigger and bigger this year it was almost 3000 sparklers. Firday was back to work and we needed a break so we didn't do much, then Saturday we went up to the outlets in Park City and bought clothes for the boys for next summer since tons of clothes were on clearnace we got Children's Place polo shirts for $2 then for lunch we went to on of my favorite resturaunts Baja Cantina. Then we got home and my mom invited us up for dinner and fireworks so we went and did that Kaden and Tanner got their first experience with Pops and they learned that it is fun to throw them at people thanks to Paul and Uncle Dallas. But they had lots of fun. Kaden and Tanner watching the parade Logan first time swimming Kaden and Tanner enjoying pops

SPARKLERS

A trip to the zoo

A couple weeks ago my friend Kristi invited us to go to the zoo with her. My boys hadn't been to the zoo yet this summer because I was a little leary of taking the three of them to the zoo by myself. SO since Kristi invited us I decided to be daring and see how they woud do. They did great! They loved seeing all the animals especially the elephant. Tanner loves elephant he sleeps with a stuffed one every night. Kaden was super cute in that he was putting the moves on Kristi little girl we were watching the zebras and I look over and he has his arm around her. Unfortunately he stoppped before I could get the camera out for a picture.

Tanner point and yelling because he saw an elephant!

Kaden and his new girlfriend or al least the girl he was trying to make his girlfriend

The rhino was sooo close to the glass, I wonder if they could break it if you got them mad enough!

4th of July weekend

Kaden enjoying sparklers for the first time

Logan's first 4th of July and he slept through the firework show.

The firework view from my parents' house.

This shirt just totally fit Tanner so I had to get it!

Man what a busy weekend. We started with a BBQ at my mom's house and then we watch the fireworks from the golf course, my parents live like 1/2 a mile from the golf course so the view is great and then you don't have to fight the crowds. Then on Friday Paul and I went to Stadium of Fire. That was great Blue man group was cool Miley Cryus wasn't that exciting but the fireworks were amazing. But we didn't get home until 1:30 because of traffic. Then Saturday we went to Paul's brothers house for a BBQ and the kids played in the water which tired them out and they slept great that night which helped to catch up on some much needed sleep. But all in all it was a great weekend.