Fourth of July: Part 1

As always, 4th of July Part 1:

Being in Utah, if Independence Day falls on a Sunday, we celebrate all weekend. Saturday is when they do the fireworks and Monday (the day off) they do the parade.  This year we went and saw the fireworks on Saturday.

This was as good as it got. There was too much wind so they couldn't blow the balloons up all the way. The wind was pulling the balloons away before they even heated the air.  (Speaking of Hot Air Balloons, we can see the out the windows of our house here in Heber every morning. Pretty fun!)

As soon as the Coke Bottle was almost upright the wind started blowing it back and forth it was pretty crazy. It was a cool balloon, I wish we could have seen it in the air.

The big thing Zac remembers about the Fourth of July is the hot air balloons, and for months he had been talking about riding in one. That costs about $190 per person.  Since that is not in the budget, and no balloons were being blow up or taking off. I asked an operator if Zac could get in. Zac was thrilled!

He also liked the little window where you can see the ground from the air

And Max has to be just like his brother. He even daily mimics most of what Zac does and says.

I can't remember what we did during the day-oh I remember now, Jon took a nap while I shopped for more summer clothes for the kids, we cleaned cars and shopped for a bunk bed for the kiddos. We went to 6 places with no luck. We are pretty picky.

Then we went to Pier 49 Pizza and headed to the missionary field to watch the fireworks.

Jon was a genius and brought a kite to play with. Other little kids were so jealous.

I love this picture! We kept telling Zac to look at the kite...haha

Pretty sun set

The last couple days the boys have really been into playing Barrel of Monkeys. There are also Barrel of Bunnies in there from my mom, from a few Easters ago.

Max was cold

Watching the fireworks. It can be tricky to watch the fireworks from outside the stadium, you never know when they are done. One year they did like 5 mins fireworks, 10 mins of nothing and then 5 mins fireworks, and 10 mins of nothing, like 5 times. It sucked. This year they took a break between the main fireworks show and the firework finale.  Lots of people left before the finale. I miss the days way back when you could listed to the program on the radio.

On the way home-long day for us all. And it took 45 mins to get home too....when it normally takes 10 mins.