Happy Late 4th of July....

It looks like everyone had a great 4th of July. Our family had a sort of screwball one. Don had a huge deadline looming over him at work, and we had nothing planned for the 4th, so on Monday, July 2nd, the kids and I (minus Ben) took a mini vacation down to St. George to visit Mom and Dad. And we had a great time!



Mom and Dad were the perfect host and hostess as usual. Even being willing to go to Zion Park in the 115 degree weather, but we did spare them at the last minute. We played the Wii. Dad really loved the golf and bowling. We had hamburgers and hotdogs and we even celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary with Dinner and cake.



Dad told some great stories of when he was in the military. And the boys loved spending some one on one time with grandpa. Grandpa even showed us Eragon which we had never seen before and liked. Grandma showed us "Song of the South", a present that Doug had given Mom for her birthday. Seems like every time we started to watch a movie, something would interupt it. So, Dad, you still owe Jared a viewing of "The Hunt for Red October" sometime at your convenience.



Man was it hot, tho. I will pray every night that the power never goes off there during the summer. That would be some misery!



It was way too hot to sit outside and watch fireworks, so when we left Mom and Dad's house that night, we watched the fireworks in the comfort of our car with air conditioning blasting in a vacant lot by our hotel.



The last day of our vacation we spent at 7 peaks water park. I actually went in the water (i ususally don't like to display my rotund bod)! I've never seen the park so crowded. The wave pool was so crowded that you couldn't move without bumping into someone. It was a little scary seeing all these little kids bobbing up and down in the water. A couple of em looked like they were drowning, but it all turned out fine. We really enjoyed our time together and had a lot of fun dumping each other over. Bad news was we did get sunburned even while using SPF 50 baby strength sunscreen. But we are feeling ok now.



It was nice to relax for a few days and just enjoy being together, although we did miss Ben and Don a great deal.