Celebrate!!

We had a great Independence Day! It was packed full of activities that had me WORN OUT by the end of the night. It's great having a day off work, but going back to work the next day was pretty much life-threatening.

We started the day off at the Lindon City Aquatics Center (fancy word for pool). Tyler is obsessed with this place because of their flow-rider. We met up with Abbie and Evan and had a jolly good time. This was Elijah's first time in a pool and we were shocked by how much he LOVED it. He wasn't scared at all...acted like he wanted to dive right in and start swimming and pretty much created an Olympic sport out of splashing. He of course couldn't nap somewhere so exciting so we left a little early and he was out as soon as that tush hit the car seat.

After he got a little shut eye at home we headed to my mom's for a 4th of July BBQ with my whole family. As I said before, Jenny's family was in town so Greg's whole crew was there. It feels like his kids are more like siblings lately. I love it. We let Elijah play on the slip & slide a little more and he practiced his splashing.

Next up was the fireworks at the Stadium of Fire. My sis found some great grass seating right next to the stadium under the fireworks. All my family came along with Tyler's family. We got to listen to the Beach Boys and even had a good view of the stage. 

The fireworks were beautiful. The flag was lighted and right in the front of the explosions celebrating July 4, 1776. It gave me chills. Elijah was okay with the first few, but after that got completely freaked out and practically jumped for me. Did I mention that he was exhausted, it was about 10 p.m. which is FAR past his bed time. After just a few seconds of nestling against my chest he was out. During all those loud bangs...he snoozed. He NEVER sleeps in our arms so this was such a gift to me.

It was a busy day, but fantastic none the less.