Monday, July 9, 2007

4th of July, Family Reunion and a big fire

We have had another crazy busy week. On Tuesday we kept our family tradition and went to see the hot air balloons down in Provo (part of the Freedom Festival) We got up at 6:15 a.m. and headed down to the field. We always go to McDonalds for breakfast then walk to the field and watch the balloons as they inflate them. The kids had fun and we were there for about an hour. We planned to go to the parade on the 4th but Tyler stared not feeling good Tues. night. I just thought he was tired from getting up so early. The first sign was him going and getting in bed and falling a sleep. Then I made Mac-N-Cheese for dinner and he didn't want any even though he had been begging me to make it for days. He ended up having a high fever and threw up a little. So, we just ended up working in the yard on the 4th. I worked on weeding and Ray worked on the sprinklers. Tyler started feeling better around 4 p.m. We had a BBQ for dinner then we went to the Owlz game. On Saturday, the kids and I decided to drive down with my brother, Mike, to a family reunion (my mom's side of the family). Ray stayed home and worked on getting the yard ready for the sod that will be delivered Tuesday (YEAH!). We stopped in Enoch for a couple of hours then went to Pine Valley. They had it at my Uncle Ernie and Aunt LeAnn's cabin. We had a lot of fun visiting with family and letting the kids play. Trent got to shoot "a real bow and arrow", he also got to go on a ride on the four wheeler. Trent was also excited that he found a "real bone"; he told me he wanted to start a "bone collection". Kara really enjoyed swinging in the "car swing" she would just laugh and squeal. She smiles a lot normally but really doesn't "laugh" that much, so I could tell that she really liked the swing. We ate a super yummy dinner there and then left around 9 p.m. I called Ray and he told me about the big fire by Cove Fort and that they had to shut down the freeway. On Sunday, Tennille and Whit went home in the morning but Mike and I wanted to go to church. Church was at 1 p.m. then we decided to leave around 3 p.m. We checked the Internet and the freeway was open so we started home and about 20 minutes later we got to where they were forcing traffic to go over SR -20 because I-15 was closed. Anyway, we went on the detour and instead of getting home in less than 3 hours ,like normal, it took us almost 6 - It was a joke! We should of just left in the morning!

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