The 4th of Forever Ago

July is a month that I always struggle to find time for blogging.

Guess that's what happens when your having fun!

For the 4th of July this year, I had to work, but got off early enough that I was able to make it to a late lunch with Russ and Misty and still do all the fun stuff at night. We went to the annual Lunt BBQ. The Lunt's are long time friends with Tyler's family and have tons of people over on the 4th and always put on a great firework show and have lots of yummy food! This year we weren't there very long and I didn't take any pictures, but it was still really fun. 

I did take a picture of my cupcake from our BBQ. 

It tasted as a good as it looks!

After eating at the BBQ we went to Kevin and Page's house to join up with my family to watch the fireworks. From Kevin's house there is a clear shot of the Thanksgiving Point fireworks so we figured it would be a perfect place to watch them from. Then we got an even better idea and climbed up on his roof and watched all the fireworks all over the Valley! And I must say, Thanksgiving Point's were pathetic compared to everyone's personal ones!

Picture of the fire from Kevin's roof

After all the fireworks we went to my parents and I watched the quail fire through my dad's scope. Yes, I'm a complete nerd. I have to admit as sad as fires are, I am really intrigued by them and was really mesmerized by this one. I think Tyler thought I was nuts. I could have stayed all night just to stare at it.

Hope everyone's 4th was as fun as ours!

Stay tuned for lots more July posts!!!

July 4, 2012

WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY AND SAFE

(hopefully fire-free!)

4TH OF JULY!!!

I will be working for part of the day, but then Tyler and I will be celebrating by barbequing

with our friends and family!

There will be fireworks involved, but we won't be lighting them. We're leaving that job up to Lehi's fire dept.

We don't want to be responsible for anything like this...

{Funny Story}

Jaynee's super awesome husband Cameron, threw her a surprise party on Friday night! They live in her grandpa's basement & he's got a fire pit out back so we had a fire--roasting hot dogs, starbursts, and making smores...you know, all that normal stuff would expect at a bon fire.

Well, if any of you know Jaynee, you know, her birthday or any event involving her can't be mellow...or normal. She likes things crazy and exciting...

This party was no exception. Her grandpa has a sunroom that connects to both the front of the house & to the backyard. We heard pounding on the door to the front, because we had left the back door open. And who was there? None of other than the fire dept.--apparently they got a call about a fire from a block away so they had to come out to inspect. There was two of them, who came and looked at our pathetic fire (it was so small it was barely putting off any heat at all.) They chuckled a little--and were like well that fire is DEFINITELY legal. But unfortunately legal or not, since they did complain we have to make you put it out. We hate to ruin the fun.

Talk about a random visit, to make things better they told us that it took a long time for them to find out where it was even at and they had to get a spotlight out just to see the tiny smoke cloud it was putting off-- so how someone saw it from a block away is beyond me!

To make things better we followed them out and turns out there were a bunch of firemen outside all suited up in their full gear--not to mention there was the fire dept. suv out front, a fire truck, and an ambulance!!! Needless to say, the whole neighborhood & Jaynee's family were either showing up or calling the house to find out what was going on.

I've been to lots of bon fires and such, but I'm not sure if any will be more memorable than this one. --Next time, I think we'll just invite the fire dept. to come join us to avoid any future 911 calls, we offered them some food and drinks last night but they declined. haha.