We spent the 4th of July 2015 in Elko helping my parents move out of their home after 25 years. It was a crazy busy working hard weekend, but there was still a little time for fun.
We are going to play the day backwards, so here is watching fireworks atop of the hill behind K-Mart. This was an experience to say the least. We were all tired, Gracie screamed through most of them, Alden got tired of the noise and cried a lot so I cried some. Not our family's finest moment, but hey we saw the fireworks and the rest of the day was fun,
The next two pictures are our selfies from the parade. I was so excited to take Alden to this parade because in Utah you have to put your chairs out a day or two ahead of time to save your spot, then fight a ton of people to see the parade and get candy, but Elko is so much more laid back we showed up about 15 minutes early got a great spot and the boys didn't have to fight to get any candy.
Alden was so fun to watch because this was his first real experience to get candy at a parade. He didn't realize he could pick up more than one piece of candy at a time. So he would pick up a piece bring it me, then walk back out to get another piece. Also once he got a popsicle he couldn't figure out how to eat and pick up candy. I love that he was not greedy and that he had a great time with his cousins watching a good old fashioned home town parade.
And the start of the day was Home Depot days. Alden and Jonathan made Minnion Scooters and Gracie showed off her adorable outfit aunt Shawna got her just for today.
Somewhere in here we celebrated Dad's birthday and packed a lot of the house. On the 5th we came back to Pleasant Grove and saw on the news that night that a local man had hung a huge American flag in the canyon not too far from our house, and this was the last night to see it, so off we went to check it out. This a was an amazing sight that the camera will never capture well enough. We are so thankful to live in a country with so many freedoms that allow us to worship and live as we want.
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