4th of July (a little late!)

I just love the 4th of July! Parades, BBQ's, carnivals, seeing family and my favorite... FIREWORKS!!! It's just such a fun day to realize how blessed we are to live here, and to celebrate just that. This year we had a cram packed day of fun. It all started at 9am when we went to the Provo parade. We had parked Dustin's van at Provo High the night before so we went to check on it first and it wasn't where we had left it. Turns out that parking lot is where half the floats took off from and so they picked up his van and just moved it (nice of the towing company huh!) Some of the floats were already gone and there were tons of open parking spots so we just parked there (really close to the parade!)
We watched for about an hour then took off to go to Bekah's birthday party. We had a picnic lunch, opened presents and ate cake. She had the COOLEST cake ever as you can see from the pics. It was a flag cake and instead of candles we used sparklers. It looked SO cool when they were all lit but when they burnt out, the cake was all black. Oops! So we didn't really eat cake, we just looked at it! Ha ha! These are the pillowcases I made her for her birthday! Then we came back to Provo and positioned the Monster Sak van where it could get some good advertising, then headed home to catch a quick power nap. 4 o'clock rolled around and we went out to Springville for Dustin's family BBQ. While we were all eating we heard a knock on the door and Mom and Pop Robison came walking through the door. SURPRISE!!! We had no idea they were coming. Then we went over to the park and played water baseball where all the bases are little blow-up pools and you have to slide into home on a slip and slide. It was really fun. (I was too busy playing and getting soaking wet that I didn't get any pics but just know... it was really fun!)

That night everyone came over to our house to watch the stadium of fire from our roof. We lined that whole roof top.


While we were waiting for the fireworks this field at the bottom of our hill caught on fire. It was pretty crazy looking. When the fireworks started we didn't know what to watch. Some people went down to check it out and the cops told them to get away because something was about to blow up! Luckily the firefighters got everything put out and no houses were burnt. Then we went inside to have cake and icecream for Roxanne's birthday. After everyone left we went down to pick up the Monster Sak van and got stuck in Hannah Montana traffic. Somehow Dustin ended up home in about 15 minutes but the way I was turned, after dropping him off, it took me about an hour to get home! Crazy! It was a long, crazy fun day and we both slept really good that night. Happy 4th of July!