Fourth of July

Job's cousin Bryan and his wife Natalie came down from Provo for the Fourth of July weekend. When people come in from out of town, it always means late nights and long days. We spent Friday at Navajo Lake, having a Pizza Party, Home Run Derby, and lots of fireworks. On Saturday, we hiked Kanarraville Falls and went to dinner. We didn't bring our digital camera with us on our hike because it was a hike filled with lots of water. We hiked through water, climbed up ladders on old tree trunks, and went down natural water slides. We took a disposable camera with us on the hike.
We borrowed Job's uncle Steve's Kayak to have fun with at the Lake. It was a blast and none of us fell in while on it. We also borrowed the Rindlisbacher's car to get us to the kayak and back to the lake. Thanks Kurt and Kristie. I posted some of my favorite pictures of us from the lake and all the other fun activities.

That evening we invited some friends over for a Pizza Party. This was the only picture we took during the pizza. Logan Mickel put olives on Katie's fingers and she loved it. After pizza we played Noun Cubed. Kristie brought the dessert to our Pizza Party. This is her famous Famous Fourth of July cake. It was so gorgeous and delicious.

After pizza, the four of us went over to the High School to have a Home Run Derby. Since we just had a wiffle ball set, the guys had to land on the dirt and the girls could roll to the dirt. It was so much fun. We kept going from 12 balls each and down to 1 until we had a winner. Natalie won in the end (with the help of an extra ball from Job while Bryan wasn't looking).



Lucy likes going to baseball field because she has a lot of room to run. One place she loves is under the bench in the dugout. She is getting so big and becoming more obedient day after day.

Bryan and Natalie brought small fireworks down, so after we played Home run derby, we set them off in the High School parking lot. Job, Bryan, and Natalie took turns setting them off while I took pictures of each firework.



There were these small ones that you light and then throw on the ground and they turn different colors as they spin. We threw four at once.

This is the biggest one that we saved for last. Blue Planet was way cool, except for in the middle of it, it fell on its side. Above is it standing up and below is after it fell.

We drove out to the airport to watch the city's fireworks. We were a little early, so we took pictures of us while we waited. Above: Job and Me. Below: Bryan and Natalie.

This one was the best picture of all the fireworks. It was really hard to take pictures because by the time I focused on a firework it was pretty much gone. Thank goodness for the Grand Finale.