down in utah, the guys and i dig a city called salt lake

4th of July was very good to me this year. My sister-in-law and her family came from Colorado, we carried on our Barfuss tradition of going to the Murray parade. I look forward to the Murray parade every year. We always get tons of candy thanks to this awesome sign:

We always have so much fun with the sign, I love the looks we get from it and it's so fun watching the people try throwing candy to make it. And some do, then Nick yells "YES!! First one today!!" Murray parade is a fun tradition. 

After the parade this year we went over to Jessica's house to have lunch and let this kids have a water party. But this year the kids got to do something special. Jessica got each of the nieces and nephews a flower to plant for Baby Jack, it was so sweet to watch them plant flowers for him. It will be such a great reminder for Jessica and her family to look outside and look at the flowers. 

After all the events with the Barfuss family, Lolly and I headed down to Utah county to go to Stadium of Fire. I was so excited when Lolly asked if I wanted to go, her friend was working backstage and had 2 extra tickets, so it was a definite plus that it was a free concert, but I was more excited to see the Beach Boys!! I love the Beach Boys and I seriously had forgotten how much I love them til I heard them live. 

Stadium of Fire is probably one of the coolest things I have been to. All the entertainment was great, the dancers, Alex Boye, the flyover, fireworks and not to mention having Scotty McCreery open for the Beach Boys was pretty awesome. I love his voice, and country music in the summer is the best, he was great! 

 And a great way to end the night was the awesome fireworks. Stadium of Fire has a great firework display, there was fire, fireworks shooting off in the stadium, and great music. All of the music was from all the James Bond movies, it was awesome! 

 4th of July was awesome this year, I always look forward to it. Next is Draper Days and I can hardly wait! I hope everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July! 

july the fourth

Our fourth of July was an eventful day, we actually had quite an eventful weekend! It was perfect. We started it off by hanging out with the Parkers on Saturday, we had a campfire with them and had tons of s'mores! Sunday was our usual routine, but we had our nephew Jeremy sleep over that night so we could all get up early and go save our spot for the Murray parade. So Monday morning Nick and I got up at 4:30 to start getting ready, and we headed out to save our spot. But getting up that early also means breakfast at McDonalds, can't forget about that! We patiently waited for our family to show up and for the parade to start. Finally it was time, the parade was about 2 hours long but it was so fun! I love parades and I love the month of July. Our family also got a wonderful photo op from the Deseret News, you can see the photo here in the photo gallery. After the parade we headed over to Training Table, I'm sure they loved that we came right as they opened with a huge group, haha! But we had fun, and who doesn't love Training Table?? Nick and I then went home for a bit and the headed over to see Nicks mom. We had a fun chat with her and then as we were going outside Erica and her family were leaving to go to the Gateway. Nick and I were planning to go there so we met up with them when we got there. After some shopping Nick and I went to dinner and then caught up with the Parkers to do some fireworks. Over all we had a great 4th of July, and I can't wait for Draper Days next weekend!! What a great month!

Nick and his hat..

i liked that the KSOP truck had keith urban AND brad paisley on it! 

that sign gets us TONS of candy

gateway!

training table!

sparklers!

the "firework dance"