Happy 4th of July

We decided that since we were going to be having a baby 2 days later, that we were going to really live up the 4th of July with Jackson.  We wanted to cram all of the stuff that was going to be much more difficult to do with a newborn all into one day.  It made for a crazy day, but it was so much fun!  Here's a snapshot of what we did.

We started off the day bright and early at the Provo Hot Air Balloon Festival. Jackson sees hot air balloons around Heber on a semi-regular basis and thinks they're pretty cool, so we thought he might like seeing a bunch of them up close. He loved it. It was lots of fun to see them filling up the balloons and taking off.

 

Next we headed up to 7 Peaks for a while.  We have the pass of all passes this summer and have loved it.  We went to the water park and played (even though they don't let pregnant women go on any slides or rides) then headed to my parents house for naptime.




Jackson took this picture.  Not too bad actually ;-)

 Then we met up with Deanne, Candi and Brittany at Village Inn for some dinner (it reminded me of our good old pie nights with the 900 court).  Then we went to my first ever Real Salt Lake soccer game.  Unfortunately, we didn't win (but would of if the refs hadn't made the mistake of calling a goal off sides when it really wasn't) but we still had a really good time.  The stadium is wonderful and there really aren't bad seats.  I consider it one of my major accomplishments of our marriage that Dallin enjoys soccer.  It took some work, but now he's a fan and we'll watch the RSL games that they show on tv at home for an at-home date night.  Gold star for me.

After the game, there were fireworks.  Jackson fell asleep during the game and wasn't too happy when he woke up and they were doing fireworks.  He covered his ears and said he wanted to go home.  I guess that's what you get for keeping a toddler too busy and up too late.  He did watch some before we headed back home to really buckle in on baby preparations.  Even though he acted like he didn't like the fireworks, it was all he could talk about for the next two days....then he had something (or shall I say someone) else to talk about...

You can tell Jackson is a little out of it.  He just woke up. :-)

The next night we lit sparklers in our driveway.  Jackson really liked them too.  He's so cute.  It was strange to think that soon we would be a family of 4 instead of a family of 3.