4th of July 2016

Have I ever mentioned that 4th of July is my favorite holiday? It's my favorite!! These girls were awesome and went early with me to save seats for the parade. We had fun doing shout outs to the people in our ward who ran in the 5k that follows the parade route before the parade starts. We decided we want to do it as a family next year. 

Sleepy little helper.

Apparently we need to look at this bracelet. 

Melissa's family joined us so were were a big group and it was so much fun!

Loving on Uncle Scotty

Mike doesn't love parades, but he's a trooper and comes every year. I think this is his preferred way of "watching" the parade.

Brandon giving high fives to the missionaries. They always get the biggest cheers.

Neighborhood gang - Rachel, Emma, Yarelli, & Courtney

Zoo Trip

We took a zoo trip to see the baby lions. Our zoo bred lion cubs. Three were born, two boys and a girl. They were super cute and we had to take a trip to see how they were doing.

Dimple!

We also checked out the bird show. It was pretty amazing and they played a hilarious prank on the crowd. They pretended to give a girl free dove release at her wedding, but she was afraid of birds. In the end she fell into a huge pool of water. It was funny. 

We also checked out the new park they added that had water features.

Emma's 12th Birthday

Emma threw me a curve ball this birthday. She requested a pie instead of a cake. She has never been a lover of cake or really sweet things. If she keeps it up she is going to love that about herself when she gets older. Anyway, back to the pie. It has always been on my bucket list to learn how to make a great pie crust. Now it's still on my list because I haven't learned how to do it yet so this request really threw me for a loop. But what my girls wants, my girl gets so I tried my best. It turned out okay, but she was happy and that is all that matters in the end. Instead of doing a big party she chose to take a few friends to Hang Time, this huge warehouse full of trampolines and foam pits.

This is one of my favorite Emma smiles. I don't know how she does it.

Water guns, siblings watch out!

Trying to put out a candle with spit. She was pretty nervous. 

I think Maddy is in there somewhere.

Orem Fest 2016

Orem does a big festival in June called Orem fest. We thought we would check it out this year. Scott and Melissa came and it was pretty fun. A little crazy and crowded, but that's part of the fun of going to carnivals. Scott won a fish for Anya.

Emma and Anya went on one of those crazy tilt-a-whirl/ferris wheel rides and it was pretty epic. They screamed the whole way through it. When it was done, Emma literally melted out of her seat and out of the ride. She was like an oozing puddle. We were laughing so, so hard.

Hee, hee. My city is funny.