4th of July

On Independence Day, we did what EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE, in Utah must have done. We went to the Freedom Festival in Provo. It was neat but so crowded. There was lots of cute shopping booths that I would have liked to have browsed, but it was so crowded that you couldn't get in them. Despite the crowd, we did do a few things.

They had colonial type areas set up for us to see what it was like back at the beginning of our country's birth. We saw how candles were made, what their beds and tents were like, how they cooked their food, and a lot of cool original artifacts from the Revolutionary war, including a cannon.

The kids are waiting in line to jump on a bouncy house.

My favorite part of the day was finding some shade and eating snow cones and relaxing for a while before heading home.

Later, we bbq'd and did some sparklers, but I forgot to take pictures. Oops.

About a month ago, our local grocery store was doing some promotional thing in their parking lot. They had a hot dog stand that was selling hot dogs and ice cream etc. for 25 cents a piece. The kids had their own few quarters with them and wanted to buy some food, even though we had just ate. Tori went over and ordered her hot dog, gave the lady her quarter, got her hot dog, raised the hot dog in the air, and yelled really loud: "I love America!" It was so cute.

And I do too, Victoria. Despite it's problems, there is no better place to be. Thank you God that I was born an American!