Our Getaway

Chad and I getting ready to leave in the Porsche
Chad and I had the opportunity to "getaway" for about 24 hours. Our friends offered their house in Park City as well as their convertible Porsche to us. It was AWESOME!! The house they own has a membership to a Posh Spa for "Members Only" but since we were their guests we got to be a member for the day. It was beautiful. We swam laps, laid by the pool, sat in the beautiful steam room and hot tub and felt so pampered. It was the perfect little retreat for us.

This is the beautiful home we stayed at in Park City

Cruising past Deer Creek, it was the most beautiful day with the prettiest blue skies. We loved it and we cannot thank the Hatches enough for staying with our kids while we were gone. We had so much fun!!!

Fun, Family, 4th of July!

I LOVE the forth of July weekend. I love the BBQs the fireworks, being with family, the parades, the friendships and of course the patriotism. We started this Forth of July weekend with an early morning trip down to Provo to see the Hot Air Balloon show.

This year they had a Darth Vader Ballon
the kids thought was pretty cool.

Chandler, Nicholas and Chayce
The morning of the Forth we have a tradition of going to the Provo Parade. It's crazy. It's more about the tradition, the food, the family than the parade itself. Chad goes down at 4:30AM to save our place. This year Raegan and Kalli slept out side with some of our friends to ensure us a great parade spot. There are over 300,000 people who come out for this parade.
Crazy and Ridiculous I know but it's tradition!!

Kylee and Kalli

McKenna and Raegan

Tyler and Grandma

Sydney got picked out of the crowd to break a board from a Karate Studio, she thought she was pretty tough.

Before the parade starts Chad always brings a football to throw around with the kids, again it's tradition!

Kalli who doesn't really even enjoy parades but wanted to spend the night at the parade spot, slept through most of the parade.

The babies did not enjoy the fire trucks or the police sirens. But they were so good despite the loud noises.

Max was all about the traditions!!!

Nicholas was awesome! He just sat in the stroller the entire time and watched and clapped, he is such a great little kid!!!

Now how many parades have you been to where the missionaries get their own entry and a standing ovation!?!
Gotta Love Utah!!!

That evening we had a BBQ with our good friends the Hatches as well as Stacey, Kirk and kids and Grandma

Teagan and Max
(they are going to get married)

Andrew, Taylor Hatch, Sydney and Raegan watching fireworks

*Sparklers*

Dylan, Talon, Andrew and Taylor

Teagan and Sydney

We love the Forth of July. It's so much fun to get to watch fireworks from Grandma's front yard. It's perfect so we can put babies to bed while the rest of us stay up late and enjoy the show.
Happy Forth of July!