July 4th... 2012 Style

Happy 4th of July! I love the 4th of July (maybe not as much as Karly, but close). This month has been pretty scary because of all the fires around Utah. It seems like every day on the news there is another fire that has erupted. We headed up to The Land the weekend before the 4th and I snapped this picture of the sun just before sundown. it is a cool picture, but pretty scary!

Despite the fires around the state we still managed to have a great 4th. Here's my two favorite boys! Caden seems pretty worried about the fire danger...

Miss Makayla doesn't seem to mind the fire danger. She's content with whatever we throw at her.

Saturday morning Tyler, Tracy, and I decided to run the Tabiona 5K. It was my first 5K and I was pretty nervous about it. I just didn't want to come in last place. We forgot the camera, so I didn't get any pictures of the event, but Tyler took 4th overall and 2nd in his division. Let's just say that I did not come in last place... but I was pretty close to it. I loved running the 5K and plan on running another race at the end of the summer.

After the race we got cleaned up and headed to the parade. We love the Tabiona parade. It is such a small town but everyone in town shows up for it. This was Makayla and Caden's first parade. Makayla looked pretty stylin in her 4th of July outfit thanks to Grandma Terry! P.S. Don't you just love her piggies? She actually kept them in for the whole parade.

Caden chilled in his stroller and slept the majority of the parade. His shirt says "I Love the USA"

Our family picture. Tyler and I are sporting our very fashionable and matching Tabiona 5K shirts.

The first float came by and threw out candy. Makayla was stoked to have free candy and didn't want to do anything else but enjoy her sucker.

Check out our stylin diva!

See how cute the floats in the parade are? They crack me up!

Makayla's favorite part about the parade were the horses. When we look at her Baby Einstein book at home she loves to point at the horse, so we thought she would love to see them in person.

After the parade (it only lasted about 15 minutes... perfect for little kids' short attention span) we went to the talent show. It was pretty entertaining. It was held in the church and the whole town was there. Makayla loved the cheerleaders. Their music started then abruptly stopped and Makayla yelled out "woah!". The whole audience laughed. Makayla also clapped after every performance... too cute!!

The rest of the time we spent doing some other fun things at the cabin. Tyler and I got to go on a 4 wheeler ride and take a lot of naps! We also learned a new game thanks to Jeremy.

The kids played on the swing set. Carson insisted on pushing Makayla. He is the best cousin to Makayla

Of course Tyler had to jump in on the fun.

We tried to take some pictures of the kids in their 4th of July outfits, but it didn't work out so well due to the 3 second attention span of our little tod.

So we enlisted the help of Grandma and Grandpa. But seriously, isn't this the cutest picture picture of all of them?

Later that night we sat around the fire singing songs. We did the Hokey Pokey and
Makayla got right in the middle of the action. Do you know what I love most about my in-laws? Every single one of them joined in on the dance and sang as loud as they could!

On the actual 4th of July we went to the Magna parade with Tammy, Karly, Rico, Ryan, Tracy, Jeremy, Carson and Colton. The parade was pretty cute, but long and hot and we ended up leaving early.

Here's my cute red, white, and blue family. You probably think we planned our outfits this way, but we honestly didn't.

 I think I have the cutest kids ever!

Later that night we went to dinner with my parents. It is getting harder and harder to go to nice places to eat with two kids. We wanted to try to go to fireworks that night, but Makayla was out by the time we got back to our house. Hopefully in a few years we'll be able to take both kids to the fireworks.

 Sometimes I feel like I never take any pictures of Caden, but he just sleeps all day. I figured there's only so many pictures of a sleeping baby that are cute. Here's a few pictures of our little man when he isn't sleeping. I love this picture of the two of them. Caden smiles every time Makayla comes around.

 Craig got Terry this huge bear for Mother's day. Caden didn't seem to enjoy having to pose by it. We took a few pictures of him crying before we consoled him. Good parenting, I know.

Happy 4th of July!