4th OF JULY CELEBRATION

It seems as though we have been celebrating the 4th of July for days. We started our celebration by going to the Oakley rodeo on July 1st. We did this last year and had so much fun that we have decided to make it a family tradition. This year we took some friends of our with us (the Parker family). After the rodeo we spent a couple of days in Park City by renting a condo at the Canyons resort. Wow, it was beautiful to say the least and HUGE! What a great place to stay - I know we will be staying there again soon. We stayed up way to late that night playing card games (I felt like a teenager again going to bed at 2:00 in the morning). On Friday we took the gondola up the mountain and ate at the Red Pine Cafe. We sat outside and enjoyed the sunshine. Reagan and Addison stayed on the patio because they were afraid if they went down the stairs the bears would get them. They were on the constant look out for bears! After lunch we threw around some Frisbees on their disc course and then headed back down the mountain for some pool time! Madison was kind enough to babysit the kids that night so us adults could go to Baja Cantina for dinner. The next morning we got ready to pack it in, but not before we visited the Utah Olympic Park and saw the FLYING ACES show! What a spectacular performance. The ski jumpers train here year round and practice their jumps in the pool. There were several Olympic Athletes that performed amazing tricks. At the end of the show Jaxson was lucky enough to be given a poster with all the autographs of the athletes. (Definitely the highlight of the trip for him.) He was ready to start ski jumping right then and there. That kid wants to do it all and would if he could. After the show we headed back down to South Jordan for a baptism of Jaxson's good friend Karter Jones. We spent the evening with several of our friends at Sandy City enjoying the parade, free concert, playing with glow sticks, dance jamming and watching fireworks.

Watch the video of one of the jumpers for the Flying Aces show...