Happy 4th of July...

Our weekend started off with a hike in Park City with our good friend and mentor Hester. We then hurried back to meet our good friends the D-15's for some ice cream before they continued on their drive.

We were lucky to be able to celebrate the holiday with family this year albeit a day early. My grandparents were returning to Arizona from a month in Oregon and decided to come via Utah to visit us. We lived close to them for 3 years while in Arizona and have missed seeing them very often.

Each day we started with the traditional Ferguson seven fruit (minimum) breakfast. Whenever you visit their house they always have tons of fruit which I love. Each morning we had raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and pineapple. The kids were spoiled rotten by getting to go shopping for toys, going to See's to buy chocolates (for mommy!), and going to ChicFilA for lunch. Whitney had fun collecting pine cones and acorns from the backyard and making a pine cone heart with Nana. I remember as a little girl collecting pine cones from all types of pine trees so my grandma could make these beautiful pine cone wreaths.

That evening we had a BBQ of hamburgers and brats and then set off our own fireworks out front. That was a new experience for the kids because they've been illegal were we've lived before.

The evenings have been awesome here lately with the sun's setting light painting the mountains and no bugs to eat you alive!

After bathing and putting the kids in jammies we headed up the hill to where we could overlook the valley and watch seven different fireworks shows across the valley. It was fun but I missed watching them on the pier with friends last year! I'm slowly working through getting some older posts completed so keep checking back.