Happy Anniversary/4th of July/Honeymoon!

Two years ago we were married

and celebrated the 4th of July on our Honeymoon in St. John

Boy how the time flies! It's been a fast and fun two years, and we look forward to oodles more to come! In fact, instead of planning my wedding like I used to I've taken to planning our 50th wedding anniversary party.

Here we are bright eyed and bushy tailed at 6:30 AM. The Balloon Fest is something Provo City puts on annually with the Freedom Festival. I LOVED it! You get to watch them blow up the balloons, take off, and return to the field you begin at to drop a "fox tail" (if you remember the Klutz yard game with the tennis ball with a tail on the back) on a gigantic "X" without landing. Pretty crazy stuff! It starts so early because as soon as the sun comes above the mountains the Earth heats up causing air currents which keep you from being able to navigate as well.

Our anniversary was technically on Monday, but because of my slack planning we didn't get a chance to do much. Instead we saved what we really wanted to do for the long weekend. We went on a fairly easy hike in Sundance (love it) to Stuart Falls. We packed a picnic to enjoy once we got there. The picnic consisted of chicken sub sandwiches and chocolate pear cake from our favorite french bakery, Elaine's. The sandwiches were out of the world! This pretty much made our anniversary.

After our hike we went to the movies! I know...gasp! I can't remember the last time we went to the real movies not counting when we got free tickets. Buck and I have decided to just be (very) patient and wait for them to arrive on Netflix. It's not too hard since we don't have TV so we miss all the previews. We ended up watching The Proposal which was cute.

Then for the actual 4th of July we just HAD to go to the parade. I love how the Provo parade actually has these blown up characters. We sit with a friend at her family's house, so for two years we have watched the poor parade volunteers struggle with getting these giant things around the street lights! Bless their hearts...

We headed to 7 peaks to polish off the sunshine, then headed over to the BYU campus to watch fireworks from the Stadium of Fire. Too bad it's Monday already...