Happy 4th of July!

Samuel was so excited about celebrating the 4th of July with fireworks this year. We tried to escape the heat by going to the parade with Aunt Trina in Cedar City. The kids collected so much candy - more then they got at Halloween! All through the parade they were chomping down on goodies. Amber asked Samuel what his favorite part of the parade was and he said the firetrucks, even though he had to plug his ears while they were going by. Then he said Daddy's favorite was the Queen. The funny thing was that Samuel was the one that noticed the Queen and Chuck didn’t say a thing about it. During the parade Chuck told Samuel the horses were really pretty and Samuel said the riders were pretty. He has been noticing pretty girls a lot lately!






After the parade we decided to take the kids to a mud pit in Enoch. It sounded like fun, but we drove around for an hour trying to find the place. Chuck even got directions from a cop and we still had difficulty finding it. When we finally found the location we realized this was a "Redneck" activity if we’d ever seen one! It wasn’t quite what we’d pictured! The mud was really deep and the kids were not excited about climbing in, but we’d been driving for so long Chuck decided they were getting in even if they didn’t want to! Bella braved it while Samuel screamed and threw a big fit even after Chuck sat him down. Don’t think we’ll be going back another year!





The kids really enjoyed the few fireworks we set off at Wes and Trina’s home. They go to bed before it gets dark so we are still doing fireworks during the early evening. This was the first year Samuel has not cried because of the noise. He did plug his ears once during a really noisy one. We had to keep a good watch on Bella because she isn’t afraid of anything, and even tried to grab the end of a burning sparkler several times. Poor Chuck had a little accident while lighting fireworks and got a second-degree burn on his hand. Just a word of advice - when its windy and your trying to shield the fuse with your hand don't point the end of the fuse directly into your palm. It shoots a burning hot flame straight out. Oouch – it really hurt!