4th of July Weekend

The 4th of July is always a great weekend for us to get together with family or friends and celebrate a great holiday. This year we were lucky enough to have lots of family around us. My brother Dave and his family, Becky, Hannah and Cate came up from Cedar City to stay with us. On the first night they arrived we met up with my sisters Melinda and Libby (who also came up but was staying with Melinda) at PF Changs for dinner. After dinner Dave and his family spent the evening hanging out with us in our backyard, making smores around the fire pit, jumping on the tramp and playing a terrible game of basketball.
On the 4th we kicked back most of the day, letting the kids play some more in the backyard, eating lunch at JCW's, Dave even took Brittany, Savannah and Cody to the mall to do some birthday shopping for Becky. Of course all I saw was the things the kids ended up buying for themselves, I hope Dave bought something for his wife for her birthday!!
Later on that evening we headed down to Payson to spend the rest of the day with Melinda and Libby and their families.
Before dinner the kids swam in Melinda's hot tube, while the older kids played some rock band.

After all that, the kids worked up a big appetite and were in need of some yummy nourishment !


We still had some daylight to kill before starting the fireworks show, so the Taylor's broke out the bikes and 4 wheelers and let the kids go crazy! Of course the adults wanted to have some fun as well.



Finally it was dark enough, thanks to the black rain clouds, so we quickly fired up the big show and got things going before we all got soaked!
Thanks again to Melinda and Jason for letting us all come down and use their home as our play ground for the evening. We really had a great 4th of July and hope to be able to spend every 4th of July with our families!