Some good friends of ours gave us tickets to go see hairspray at Tuachan. We had so much fun. We had ben's sweet cousin come babysit Kate. She had so much fun with her!
I can't say I really enjoyed the movie Hairspray, but the actors here did a really great job.
The 4th
The Holmes family asked us if we wanted to hang out with them on the 4th. We all had a blast! We went to the carnival with them. I got a few pictures I will post of that...( I am using my phone to write this post, so my pictures may not be in order.)
After the carnival we came home and got ready for a bbq. We had way too much food. Including these fun flag cookies katie and I made. While we were eating we heard sirens coming from everywhere. I asked Ben if we should go check it out. He said he thought it was a few blocks away. After a half an hour sitting there hearing the sirens, we finally went outside and saw a fire right across the street from us. We all ran over to see what was going on. Some kids were messing around with fireworks and started the empty lot between us and the freeway on fire. Thank goodness it wasn't someone's house. It was way too close though.
Later we went to Ben's aunts house to watch the fireworks. She lives right across the street from the park they were setting them off at. This fireworks show was the best show I have ever seen. They set fireworks off from 3 other places at the same time surrounding the main one at the park. They had music playing, and the fireworks would go off to the music. It was pretty cool.
To avoid the traffic, we went into the backyard and had homemade ice cream with Ben's extended family. It has been so nice getting to know all of them. They are such sweet people. They loved having our friends there as well. ( I think this might have to do with the cute little newborn baby they have. She is a doll. Her brothers are pretty cute too!)
Our crazy spontaneous adventure
Ben's boss found out it was our anniversary last weekend so he gave him Saturday off and told him to go home early on Friday. We spontaneously decided to drive back home for the weekend. It was a very quick trip and very rushed, but so fun! Kate played with her cousins and aunts and uncles, We saw my brother and grandma, we saw our good friends bret, Bekah, and sky, and Justin, Emily and their cute boys and Jen and chad. Chad was celebrating his 23rd birthday. We are so glad we were able to tell him happy birthday in person. And to get some delicious cake. We also made a trip to the Bountiful Temple for an endowment session. We had such a great time with Ben'S parents and sister Char there. Ben's other sister Angela took Kate for us, so we could go. We are so blessed to have such a great family who loves and supports us.
Our Anniversary
We got to visit with more family and had a wonderful time visiting with them. We missed the rest of you who didn't make it over to see us. Hopefully we can see you next time!
We spent most of the evening in the car..... It was an extremely long car ride! We made way too many stops because we had a cranky teething baby. We finally made it home and got unpacked and Ben and I both had homework to do. We were up until 2, so it wasn't the perfect day, but we have had a lot of really great days that I think makes up for it.
