This Is America

 It was so great to spend time as a family for the 4th of July! COVID changed all our plans and traditions. But we wanted to have fun. We had purchased our Old Glory t-shirts months ago and needed to have a place to wear them.

We wanted to go to Lagoon. Lady Hiva wanted to go to Eagle Mountain Farmer's Market...so we did both!

 This photo below is what the American dream is all about. One neighbor is mowing our lawn. Another neighbor is mowing the lawn of a third neighbor. Service, kindness and love--those are the foundations of the country I believe in.

Lady Hiva wanted to stop by the fresh sour dough bread tent. I had to laugh because after she told me she has been reading comments "for weeks" and is glad we bought some bread. I...as a non bread fanatic...just will never understand how bread is a priority over everything else. 

Then we headed to Lagoon. This was one reason COVID was amazing! We had to register to go in and they limited the people. It was AMAZING!! We only waited in one line the whole day. And that line was only 10 minutes. Every other ride we walked right on and even stayed on to ride twice.

 We had to wear masks and there was hand sanitizer before each ride and after. I felt like they really tried to make it safe as possible.

 This peacock was showing off. He was beautiful. I had to laugh when he noticed I was taking photos he slowly turned and walked as if hw was on the runway.

 These two were mad thwy got soaked. Haha

 Our adrenaline-junky, rollercoaster-loving guy threw up on the sidewalk. Poor guy must have eaten something bad. Hlad we had fun before that.

 We made it back for fireworks with the neighborhood. It was fun! Our little lane was blocked off with chairs and we lit all our fireworks. Then we sat and watched the thousands of fireworks across Utah Lake from Lehi down to Spanish Fork. It was amazing. Photos don't do it justice.

We had to laugh because the sprinklers came on and we all scattered! Then we had settled in again and the nieghbors' rogue firework fell over and shot right at us! Lucky nobody got hurt! It was intense for a few minutes, but we all survived. It became a journal entry moment.

 We finished the day with a BBQ and watching Harry Potter 3. Lucky Dragon had been listening to the books with us and loving them. We finished the book today as we drove so he can watch the movie (my rule is you cannot watch the movie until you read the book)