4th

So we had an AWESOME holiday!!!!! We usually travel to see family for holidays, but now with little kiddos it is so much harder! We love staying home and celebrates with our wonderful neighbors/great friends. Our street has a little party which is so fun every year. We live in a culdesac so we pretty much block it off and party till the sun goes down! The kids all decorate their bikes, scooters, cars, etc. and we have a parade. ADORABLE. Seriously we have the cutest kids on our street. Daxton is getting so big and independent (stubborn) and wanted to ride his bike all by himself! We had a big BBQ and finished off with some fireworks. We are so lucky/blessed to live where we do and have such great neighbors and friends. See the cloud of smoke in the background? Oh, just another fire here in UT. Because of this fire our 4th plans were kind of ruined. We were going to go to a little lake up American Fork Canyon but they closed it all down so we had to change our plans. Luckily, here in these parts we have a plethera of lakes for our trusty canoe! 

We ended up at Mirror Lake in the high Uintas (past Heber) for the actual 4th of July. WOW! It was sooo beautiful and it was so fun to go somewhere we haven't been before. We took two families from our street and it was amazing! We had a blast. The lake was gorgeous, the weather was perfect, and the kids had a BLAST. Daxton didn't get a nap (for the first time in his whole little life) and he did awesome. He just wandered freely with the other kids, played in the water, and LOVED the canoe. He is so awesome! He fell asleep within 30 seconds of being in the car so that pretty much means he had the best day ever. We stopped for the all american cheeseburger and shakes dinner and called it a night with some AWESOME fireworks on the street. We couldn't have asked for a better day!