Fourth of July

We did things differently this year for the holiday.  We stayed home in the morning instead of going to the Centerville parade.  Brooke and I went to a neighborhood pancake breakfast while the boys stayed home (Aiden was napping).  Then we went to the mall, just for fun.

Here are Brooke and Dallin in the food court at University Mall in Orem.

Pa was the architect in charge of the design of the food court.  It was fun to be able to show the kids some of Pa's work.  Although I don't think they understood what it was that he did.

After the mall we came home so Aiden could have a nap.  Then it was off to Aaron's parents' house for swimming and dinner.  The kids had so much fun in the little pool.

After dinner, we came home and put Aiden to bed.  Then, the older kids and I walked to a neighbor's house for a fireworks show.  I ended up having to take Brooke back home, it was too noisy for her.  Dallin had a lot of fun though.

Waiting for the firing of the parachutes

Neighbor kids running to get a parachute.

Dallin and his parachute.

Dallin laying in my lap watching the fireworks.

A crappy quality picture of the pyros responsible for our wonderful show!

Some of the fireworks

 The mess at the end!

It was such a fun, laid back day.

And by the way, we have the. BEST. neighborhood. EVER!

Date Night

Aaron was in charge of date night.  We had it on Tuesday night since Aaron had Wednesday off for the 4th.  He chose to show me how to play Magic.  Yes, I married a nerd.  We played one game, and I won.  Although, I think he let me win.  Then, when we were done playing, we made smore's.

St. George girls (plus Spencer) trip

Last week I had the chance to go down to St. George with my grandma, mom, sister, and sister-in-law.  We stayed with my brother and his wife.

On Day 1, we met at the Zupas in American Fork.  Aaron dropped me and the van off and he put all 3 kids in my parents car.  He and the kids left and the 5 of us had dinner.  Then we were off for our drive to the south!

On the way down there were so many fires!

Here is a picture of how cool the sun looked through all the smoke.  The picture doesn't really do it justice though.  When we got to Spencer and Natalie's, we got settled and just stayed up late talking.

Day 2, we took our time getting up and getting ready, then it was off to the nail place Natalie had suggested.  They had enough chairs and enough staff that all 5 of us got our pedicures at the same time!

Getting our pedicures

All done!

After our pedicures, we picked Spencer up for lunch.  We went to a place called Wunderbar, and it was delicious.  We got ours to go and took it back to the house to eat with Natalie, who was working.

We spent about an hour or so a day at the pool.  It was too hot to do any more than that.

We went shopping!

Then we went to dinner at Pancho and Lefty's(?)

Here is our whole crew!

Spencer and Natalie, our awesome hosts

MeMe and Mom

Amanda, Me, Kassie.

This shot took about 5 attempts because Spencer kept making Amanda laugh.

Day 3 was more shopping(we really didn't get that much even though we went 2 different times), lunch at a Pita place, the pool, dinner from Hungry Howie's Pizza(or something like that), and Tuacan.

Here we are ready to see Hairspray!

Hairspray was great!  Our only complaint was that the misters were broken :(.

Thanks everyone for such a fun getaway!  Especially Spencer and Natalie for letting us stay in their cute place!  And Aaron for hanging out with the kids so I could go.