We've had it planned for a couple months for my Mom's 60th Birthday. It was a great concert and lots of fun! Two other bands opened up for him...the first one was called Trailer Choir (I hadn't heard of them), but they were actually pretty good and really funny...one of their lead singers was a big 300+ lb. guy dancing all around! And I guess they have the #37 song on CMT's Top 20 countdown right now. After they played, Little Big Town came out.
They were really good too...
...but I ran down to the front and took a few pictures and videos during part of it. What a wild crowd...as I'm standing there taking a video a huge fight broke out right in front of me and a couple cops came in and dragged some guys off! (nothing like a concert at the Uinta County Fair!) 
Last week we went to the pool one afternoon with my friends Angie and Aurora and their kids. It was a fun outing for the day. The older boys (all able to reach the bottom of the smaller pool this year!) had fun just playing around together while us Moms sat on the edge with the younger ones while they splashed and played in the shallow water.
They are so similar in their actions and size and with their fair skin and red hair they look like they could almost be little twins! 
They looked so cute sitting by eachother and kicking their legs splashing in the pool. 
Anyway we'll have to try to do it again before summer is over. 
Today is my Mom's 60th Birthday! 
(yes I know "Fourth" is spelled wrong...but hey a kid did it!)
...for a barbeque and let the kids do some party poppers and snaps. 
Even the little ones loved pretending...
After being stuck in traffic for an hour and a half last year on our way home from watching them, we decided to just go watch them at Lundstrom park and leave before they were over. We had planned on meeting up with the Villas but never did find eachother. The park was packed and it was pitch dark. But we still had fun just the four of us. The kids had their glow sticks and loved running around with them, then we all sat on a blanket and watched the fireworks.
Ashton loves the fireworks every year, but it was so fun to see Gunnar's reaction since this was really the first year he saw them. He would look up in the sky at them with wide eyes, then look over at me, like "WOW...did you see that Mommy??" 
He even made all the oooh....ahhhh... sound effects! It was so cute to watch! He LOVED them! So as planned we picked up our stuff and left after about 25 minutes, beat the traffic and were home in about 10 minutes. Saturday we slept in a little then got up and made it out to the Hyrum parade with about 10 minutes to spare before it started. It is such a huge parade and soooo many people go to it. I really didn't think we'd find a spot, but we actually didn't walk far and found a really good one. 
Ashton absolutely loves parades...and really what kid doesn't like going and getting candy thrown at them for no apparent reason?? He waved at every float in the hopes of getting their attention and getting some candy thrown his way...
He came home with way too much taffy to add to the basket of Easter candy I think we still have left.
It was fun to have them all at our house to eat good food, and the kids had a blast together. 
Oh and Deborah's little boy happens to be a Gunnar too!
We also invited our great friends and back yard neighbors Kent and Debbie over and Debbie brought some of her fabulous cookies to share. Yum! 
I think Gunnar will follow in his footsteps...he already had no fear of them and loved watching everyone set them off and even threw a few snaps...
So Lars and he started before dark setting some off, then 3 other families in the neighborhood came to join us and we took our party across the street to the big open spot and everyone set theirs off together. 
It was a fun night and just a really fun weekend!
I'm finally getting around to posting stuff from the rest of our Bear Lake weekend. On Saturday like I said we got up pretty early since it gets light so early and our room was so bright. So we ate our cereal and yogurt that we brought with us and then just kind of hung out in the room for awhile. Then Lars took the boys back to the park while I got ready for the day and by the time they got back and I was ready, it was time for Gunnar to take his morning nap, so I laid him down and read my book for a little while (till I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer) and I napped a little with him. Lars and Ashton walked down to the beach and set up our chairs and umbrella to save our spot for the day, then hung out there while we napped. I have to say that it was so nice that I "had" to stay in the room with Gunnar while he was napping those few times. These days naps are rare for me (and I miss them so much!) so to sit there and read my book till I was too tired and then just get to fall asleep for an hour with no interruptions really made it a vacation for me!
And here is their youngest (for a couple more months!) Alex with Gunnar. They were both rolling around in this muddy puddle and eating sand.
After lunch we came back to our room again Gunnar and I had another nap.
He loved it! He wanted to play another game, but they decided to go to the beach again instead.
The boys had more fun playing in the sand and water and chasing seagulls...
And Ashton walked around carrying this little chair bag for a long time saying he was a garbage man as he picked up little pieces of trash to put in it...
Gunnar's cute little sandy feet...he had it everywhere you could imagine!
...then we decided to head back to the room and get cleaned up and go find someplace for dinner. We ended up going to Lakeside Pizza and it was pretty good and not very busy. Then after going back to our room for a few minutes we went and got ice cream at the little ice cream store on the resort.After all what is a vacation without ice cream???
Then it was time to go get ready for bed. The boys slept pretty good again and even slept in till 7:00 that morning. After we got up we got ready and packed up all of our stuff and checked out by 9:00.
Ashton thought it was so fun to be the one to open the door to our room...
After we checked out we stopped off for breakfast and then it was time to head home...
Bye-bye Bear Lake!
It was such a fun weekend...I think we'll make it a yearly trip now!
