Independence Day

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Wow! 4th of July weekend was PACKED! 
Friday July 1: Cars 2 and Diamond Rio with Kam and Ruth Ann's family. (What a great combination!). We hung out with the kids while Ruthie went to get a hair cut. During this time, the girls all made brownies, and the boys tossed the football around. After that, we went to watch.....CARS 2!!! It was super duper terrific! Then we all met up and went to the stadium to watch Freedom Fire and DIAMOND RIO!!! It was awesome! 



Saturday July 2: Swimming at Kathy and Craig's House and Stadium of Fire. Ben and I met up with Rena (one of my old roomates and best friend ever!) and her sister Emily. We went to the cool 4th of July shops down in Provo and looked around. Then we met up with Ben's family at Kathy and Craig's house where we had lunch and went swimming in their pool. Later that night, we went to the Stadium of Fire, sat outside and hung out with some old friends. :)


Sunday July 3:This day was the only day that wasn't jammed packed full of activities! We went to Church with Ben's parents and then had a pretty relaxing Sunday.
Monday July 4: Scout Breakfast, Provo Parade, Carolyn and Hyrum's House for lunch, Grandma and Grandpa Shurtz's condo for swimming and Grandpa's Birthday party. 
We went to Ben's parent's church at 7am to eat breakfast. The scouts had prepared a cool 4th of July Ceremony and we had yummy food! Next we went to the parade. I absolutely LOVE parades! 

Liz and Anna.

SCOOBY DOO!!

The Star Wars guys were way cool!

Llamas=neat!

After the parade, and weaving our way through parade traffic, we went to Carolyn and Hyrum's House for lunch. Good food, good company. Then we headed Grandma and Grandpa Shurtz's condo for swimming and Grandpa's Birthday party.Swimming was a blast! Ben, Sylvan and Adam were doing those cool fast sporty moves of throwing and catching while jumping in and then throwing to the next person in line. I decided to join them. It was super fun, but I'm pretty sure they are all more cool and fast and sporty than I am at doing the whole catch/jump/throw thing. Liz was taking pictures on the side, and as you can see, I could get the jumping in part, but catching it seemed to be a bit of a problem. It was fun anyways.
After we were exhausted from swimming, we ate dinner and had a really neat birthday program for Grandpa Shurtz. And...this weekend I found out Ben has more relatives that I even knew about! There were quite a few times this weekend that I turned to Ben and said "Who is that?" I got to meet a few new people and took some time to get to know a few of them better.