God Bless the USA

On July 4th, I woke up at 9 am and Clayton and I headed to the grocery store. We came back to Steph's, where I decided to make "monkey bread" for breakfast. You make monkey bread by taking uncooked biscuits and fill them with a small cube of cream cheese, and a mixture of cinammon and sugar. After you seal them, you put them in a bundt pan and pour a butter-brown sugar mixture over them and bake them for 30 minutes. They are extremely healthy (not) but they taste good. By the time everyone woke up at 11:30, the monkey bread was ready to serve. Steph decided to try some "Daily Bread" scrambled eggs and bacon. They were just fine, though the kids didn't like them. We decided that we would head over to 1st dam up Logan Canyon and let the kids play for a while. We took some muffins to feed the ducks, but they didn't want any food. There was lots of bread crumbs floating in the water so they must have been over fed by everyone. We went over to the bridge to check the river. Jaden kept spraying everyone with his water gun and was asked repeatedly to stop. Finally, I chased him down, turned him upside down and gave him a nice cold dip into the river. He was happy with me to say the least! Later that day, all the adults went into Cafe Sabor to eat dinner and celebrate the 4th of July by eating Mexican food. The food was great but it was so nice to visit with everyonce and just relax without our children. After dinner, we headed out to Jocelynn and Kyle's to let the kids play and to roast marshmellows over a fire. It was gorgeous out in Paradise. The hillsides were bright green and sunset was perfect as it set over the Wellsville Mountains. I tried to capture some pictures but they don't do the "real thing" justice. The kids enjoyed swinging, jumping on the tramp, and eating sticky smores!
Later when it was dark, we headed over to the park and lit some of our own fireworks. The kids thought they were awesome, but some of them were loud and scared Landry and Landon. We went into Hyrum to see the firework show. Clayton would clap every time a firework went up in the air. He would also squeal. Cooper ran around with his cousins. It was such a fun weekend and it was packed with so many events. We were exhausted when we got home, but it was definately worth it. Clayton is still trying to recover. He has been taking long naps!