4th of July

This 4th of July was a BLAST!! We felt like Jaxon was finally old enough to really enjoy some of the festivities. We woke up bright and early to go see the hot air balloons in Provo.

Note to self: get up earlier next year to make it in time to see them filling, not the last one taking off. We had a lot of fun though and Jaxon loved watching them fly through the sky.

Jaxon hanging out on the sidewalk watching the balloons.

Jaxon and Justin, look how high those balloons were!

Then after watching the balloons we went to Mimi's and had a yummy breakfast. Then slowly made our way home. We all had a nap, then watched the Daytona 500 Nascar race.

FYI: my favorite driver, Tony Stewart, won in one of the best race finishes ever!

Justin barbequed some yummy hamburgers, and we were all ready to light fireworks when it started to rain and be really windy. That really bummed Jaxon out, the poor thing was looking forward to it all day. We turned on the Boston Pops fireworks on tv and were watching them, when all of a sudden it was a little too quiet...yeah Jaxon fell asleep watching them on tv! We ended up doing our fireworks the next night and he loved them!

Hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend! I love this time of year to reflect on what this day means to us as Americans. I am so grateful to live in this free country and really appreciate what past, present and future soldiers have done for us to enjoy these freedoms!!