4th of July

Since I've been gone practically the whole month of July, I've got to play catch up on my blogging of our adventures. Starting off the month, we had a fun filled weekend for the 4th of July. We headed out of town on Thursday afternoon to Star Valley, Wy. We stayed at a cabin that was a friend of Zac's parents and was very nice indeed! I didn't get too many pictures of the cabin, but it was plenty big and had air hockey and pool table for the kids to play.

Here's Rachel hanging out with Grandpa!

The boys outside the cabin


On Friday, we headed up to Jackson Hole. We spent the day there shopping and browsing around. The kids are posing for a picture here after our impromptu picnic where we had parked our cars.

The family in front of the antler arch.

Us, Zac's Mom and Dad, Sister and Niece

On Saturday, the 4th of July, we had great anticipation of some exciting fireworks. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting this kind of explosion from the screaming monster. I just wanted to get her picture taken in her cute 4th of July outfit and bow! Is that too much to ask? Anyways, this is what I got!
And....more screaming!
That morning we headed out on a hike in Afton, WY to an intermittent spring. Here's a few more pictures.


After our hike, we told our kids we were headed back home since we had to make it back home that night to be at our Church on Sunday. They were a little disappointed and kept wondering if they would get to see any fireworks. Well, on our way, we decided to tell them that we had one more stop on our trip...kind of out of the way, but a worthwhile stop. From Afton, we drove all the way down to Provo, to go the the Stadium of Fire and see the Jonas Brothers. (We weren't planning on doing that when we originally decided to go to Star Valley, but happened upon tickets a couple of days before and decided it would be a fun surprise for the boys.)

Ben was excited to go to the concert, but thought he was too cool to scream and dance like all the crazy girls. He played it very cool, and quietly sang all the words to the songs since he knows them all. I think he was only slightly embarrassed by his mother's singing and dancing!

Lucas had fun messing around, eating his snow cone, and was so excited when they played his favorite song, "Love Bug"!

Luckily, I have a brother who lives in Provo who was staying home with his baby (while the rest of his family went) and I talked him into letting me put Rachel down to sleep at his house so we could go to the concert without her! Thanks Danny!

The fireworks were amazing and we all thought (even Zac) that the Jonas Brothers put on a good show. Unfortunately, the traffic was horrible getting out of there, and we didn't get home till 2 am! At least Zac was able to be in church on Sunday! It was a fast, crazy weekend, but we all had a great time.