Monday, July 20, 2009

A festive Fourth

We had a very festive Fourth of July at our house with all the remaining Smart family relatives: Michael's parents, siblings and 3 little cousins. It was a perfect day - plenty sunny, but not roiling hot yet.
Our July girl.



Aunt Lynn was in town from Washington DC and brought Emma her special 8-year-old birthday present a week early: a new scripture tote!
After a BBQ dinner fireworks were enjoyed.
Spencer was SO excited for the fireworks. I'd taken him with me to the store a couple of days earlier and while we were there I told him he could help pick out a few fireworks for the party. So as I'm looking at a couple options in the $20 range he goes around the corner. Then I hear him yell, "MOM! I found it!" and walks back around, barely able to carry the largest boxed collection available, and about $100. The lady next to me laughed out loud.

After our little firework display we went to our secret spot to watch the the Stadium of Fire at BYU. It's taken us 10 years, but we finally found it.
It was a really fun time to celebrate with our Smart family members because it's so rare to all be together for major holidays.

1 comment:

Mauri said...

What a fun Fourth of July! And it looks like Spencer and Michael had an awesome trip together. How cool for Spencer to go on his on trip with his Dad.