We spent most of the 4th of July planting and spreading top soil. We still have a long way to go, but at least we have a few plants in front of our house now, even if they're all really small!
Kevin's friend, Trevor, lives right next door to a house in the Parade of Homes, so they set up a lemonade stand. They have been working pretty hard at it.
Finally, what everyone has been waiting for!
We wondered if we would be able to see any firework shows from our deck. We counted at least 12 separate shows that we were able to watch, from down by Lagoon and West Bountiful to way up north by Farr West or somewhere up there. None of them were super close -Ogden's was blocked from our view- but it was really fun to sit out and watch and listen to them all. It felt eerily like a warzone, and it made us grateful that we've never been exposed to anything like that.
Cleaning up the mess the next day before church.
All in all, a fun holiday. We missed Camille, who went to Provo with a friend for the Stadium of Fire, and we had a lot of nostalgic thoughts about last year's 4th, when we were in Hawaii with Grandma and Grandpa and Niel and Amy's family, but we had a good day, and we're grateful to live in such a wonderful country.
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