4th of July fun 2009!

This year we spent the 4th of July together with our little but growing family. All of my family was out of town but we enjoyed just spending the day together.

Our day started out with our ward Annual 4th of July Breakfast. This was our first year attending and it will probably be our last. They served french toast, scrambled eggs, and sausage. The french toast was over cooked and the eggs and sausage were undercooked. The eggs were slimy and the sausage was still pink inside. The only thing that was perfect was the store bought juice. Needless to say next year we'll make our own breakfast.

After breakfast we headed down to the Cherry Creek Shopping Center where we went to the annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival. It was so fun walking the streets of Cherry Creek and seeing all different kinds of art. Its all for sale but pretty expensive so we never buy anything. Its just fun to go and see what people can do. I think it helps to give Jared more ideas too. We just enjoy hanging out and looking at good art.

When we were done at the festival we went to the food court at the mall for lunch then we headed home. Once we got home we all took naps. We were pretty exhausted. Walking around in the sun is tiring! When we woke up we headed out again to find some poppers and sparklers for Cayden to play with. We had to go to one of those tents to get sparklers because all Wal-Mart sold was things that pop. After we found the sparklers we headed home. We fed Cayden, neither of us were very hungry because of such a big lunch, and then we took him out to the balcony to play.

I threw a popper down and he laughed hysterically at the sound it made. He couldn't quite throw them down hard enough so Jared taught him to step on them to make them pop. You would have thought he was in Heaven with how happy he was popping them. Then we brought out the sparklers and he had even more fun. Here are some pictures from our evening.

After we were done playing with sparklers and poppers we went inside for dessert. S'MORES!!!! I had been craving them for weeks so I was very excited to finally eat one. It was Cayden's first and he was a big fan. They ended up being dinner for Jared and me. Quite the nice 4th of July dinner huh???

We hope every one had an awesome 4th of July. We are so thankful for this country that we live in and for the freedom that we enjoy every day.

Ok. So this may be the last blog for a few weeks. We are headed to Florida today and can't wait for an exciting vacation!!!

~LOVE TO ALL~