4th of July Weekend

My roommate, Abbey, got married last Saturday and so I flew to UT for the wedding. Elder Holland performed the ceremony. Bonus. It was AMAZING to be sitting there in the same room as him AND in the temple no less. It was a beautiful ceremony (Salt Lake Temple) and he had some really amazing things to say. I'm lucky I got to be there. Plus he said "hi" to me. Oh yeah!

The wedding was perfect timing as it was July 4th weekend. Double bonus. I love the 4th in UT. Celebrations started early on Saturday. My roommate, Amy, and I started off the celebrations with some shave ice (LOVE it!), followed by a rockin' pool party and BBQ. I got to see a lot my peeps from my old ward (MISS 'em!) and then we played some basketball in the pool. Yes, I showed all the boys up. It was a lot of fun.

After the pool party I met up with Elise & Erik for the Stadium of Fire. First time for all of us. And boy was it sweet! My favs were the sky divers that landed IN the stadium, Brad Paisley, and the fireworks. Oh. My. Gosh. The fireworks were AMAZING. Best finale I've ever seen, partly because they shook the whole stadium and my sis and I were going crazy. Just ask Erik. According to him we were screaming and shaking like crazy. Bahahaha. K, I admit it. We kind of were.....

Sunday night was a midnight BBQ (aka annual 1st BBQ of the 4th). It was SO much fun. Sariah, Amy, Dave and I were sparkler-ing it up. Take a peek.

After going to bed at 2:30 am, I woke up at 5:30 am to go to one of my fav parts....the balloon launch! Except they ended up not launching them due to weather. Bummer. Talk about disappointment. Didn't matter though. Anything with Sariah is guaranteed to be a blast.

I hit up the parade afterwards with some friends and then topped it off with a picnic up the canyon with my family. It was one of the most fun weekends ever. I miss UT tons and all my family and friends. Guess I'll just have to go back soon is all.

Celebrating the 4th of July

Because I was gone for the weekend rafting, I didn't get to see any fireworks. Darn! Who's bright idea was that?! (see picture above. Bahaha). It seems like I am always out of the country for fireworks either in Mexico, Canada, or Europe. I'll be in
China for the 24th, so again no fireworks this year :( Oh well, my sister and I still know how to party it up. On Monday, yesterday, we got up at the crack of dawn for the Balloon Fest. We got to the field just as the hot air balloons were taking off so we missed the best part, but still worth it.

Then we decided to go to the parade in P-town on the spur of the moment. Oh my gosh - it was so fun! I hadn't been to a parade in years, and it's even better when I'm with Elise. We're CRAZY! We were like little kids seeing a parade for the first time, trying to squander shirts off the Republican party to no avail, waving at everyone, trying to jump on firetrucks to ride in the parade, Elise daring me to ask some dudes if I could ride this thing.

Man! I'm SO disappointed. Although this isn't the exact one (I should have taken a picture) these dudes were riding a couch on wheels! Check that out! I've never seen anything so cool before. And Elise dared me to ask for a ride. End of story. SHOOT, I'm losing my gusty daring skills. I kept hoping they'd come back, but they didn't. I lost my chance.