Sunday, July 3, 2011

Happy 2nd of July?

I don't know why, but this year the Stadium of Fire was held on July 2nd. Lame but whatever. Now we get to watch two different displays! Last night was a great show.

We started out the day with a couple of hours at Seven Peaks water park. After that we went home, got cleaned up and ate before heading out again. When we got to the Marriott Center Paul and I got into a pretty big argument over where to sit. It wasn't serious but the kids rarely see us upset with each other. They both started crying and asked if we were going to get divorced LOL! We assured them we weren't and the rest of the night went off like normal.

We sat in the parking lot of the Marriott center eating junk food, painting nails, playing on Ipods, taking pictures and reading while we patiently waited for the jets and the fireworks.




Watching the parachuters drop was pretty cool. 





My favorite part of the night is the fly-over. 









Some of my favorite firework shots. 











Emma Returned from Girl's Camp

Emma got home from Girl's Camp in Flaming Gorge Thursday. When she got back the first thing she wanted to do was get in the shower. She had a great time but preferred camp last year to this year. This year there wasn't water near camp to play in, her secret sister forgot to bring her stuff (She said she would bring it by after they got home but she hasn't) and they got rained on. And hailed on. And they were kept up all night by lightning and thunder. Overall it was a great experience and she is glad she went. They got to do some pretty cool things.

In the car on the 3.5 hour drive. 




Home away from home


A little visitor


that found a popcorn ball 


On the way to the cave. It took about 40 minutes to an hour to get there.


The scenery along the way






In the cave, foam!



Ice! 



One of the leaders, Kristen. 



Kristen and Syd after exploring a small cave. 


They got to go river rafting. I think this was her favorite part of camp. 













Katie took a picture of herself through the water. This shot makes me laugh so hard! 



This water was 50 some degrees. Crazy girls. 




Here is Emma right after she got home. She was totally embarrassed that I am taking a picture when she hadn't had a shower for four days. 


Her car and one other car got home a while before all the others. She was able to shower before the rest of her stuff and the others arrived. 

They had so much rain the last night at camp the tents were still drenched when it was time to pack up and leave. The girls had to go and set them up in the camp director's yard so they could get cleaned and dried out. 


Those tents are a pain to set up. It took a lot of work in the hot sun. 





After all the tents got put up and swept out they were able to collect their bags of stuff. 


I am so glad to have Emma home. We all missed her while she was away even though Andrew doesn't like to admit it.