Happy 4th of July!

On the 4th of July we went to a park in St George during the day and then made our own fireworks show at night. We had our cousins to enjoy it all with!

Jeff and the girls near the park:
















Jeff & Kara's favorite part - the hot dog eating contest!:
















The kids enjoying our fireworks on our lawn (as the fireworks got bigger and louder, Kara got further and further back - she eventually ended up with her stool by the front door):
















Some of our fireworks in the street:

pics from weekend 5

Sadly, the park day had to come to an end:













































I love Utah sunsets!

Pictures from weekend 4

Park fun:

pictures from weekend 3

Brooke & Connor:
















The pirate ship we sat by at Pirate Island:
















Hayden & Connor eating snacks:

(pictures from weekend 2)

Playing at the arcade in Pirate Island:

Hayden, Brooke, & Connor:
















Brooke:

















Hayden playing:




















Connor playing:

Fun with cousins

We love having visitors! Jeff's brother Mike & his cute family are here over this fourth of July weekend! We found a really neat pizza restaurant called Pirate Island right near our house. We'll definitely be going there again... Lunch specials for $4.99 (individual pizza including drink!). Some pictures of our fun at the restaurant, at the new house with our cousins, and at the park (after it cooled down to the nineties last night) will be in multiple posts.

Brooke and Hayden at the play area inside the restaurant:















Connor:

















Brooke:
















Kara & Brooke:

Living in St George

There are some BIG creepy, crawlies in St George - I found a HUGE spider in the garage. This is what it looked like all curled up floating in bug spray. It was black and had a hard shell and was much bigger with it's legs spread before it died. Yikes! I hope this was the one and only spider like this (I know, impossible, but I can hope!).