Loooong weekend for the 4th

Holiday weekends are thee best. A day off work, fires, swimming, s'mores and fireworks all in one weekend? Yes please! Thursday night Jake, Mary, Aaron and I went up to my family's cabin in the Woodland-Kamas area. They spent most of the daylight fishing, while Mary and I relaxed and started a fire. We then roasted hotdogs (and the fish Aaron proudly caught), ate Doritos and s'mores, drank Mountain Dew and Diet Coke and lit some sparklers. We stayed up playing UNO in the refreshing mountain air and fell asleep watching the Bourne Identity.

Jake and Mary doing the sparklers.

We woke up and made yummy breakfast burritos cleaned up and headed over to a fishing hole with the boys. Aaron ended up catching 4 fish! Ha he's not much of a fisherman, but this weekend sure made him one. Jake caught one fish, and I think was a little let down that Aaron beat him out since he's the one that really fishes.

 Fishin the Provo River.

 It's tradition to ALWAYS get ice cream here when we are up at the cabin. I tricked Aaron a little bit on the directions home, at least he makes me think I tricked him. 

We headed back down the canyon and went swimming at Jake and Mary's pool. The weather is nice and hot, I love it when you can get out of the pool and not be cold, and that's exactly what it was like this weekend. Aaron and Jake can entertain themselves with just about anything, and they sure do at the pool. They played with the rescue floaty, used the rescue rope to play long jump into the pool, submersed the pool chairs in the water and swung Mary and I around on the rope around the pool.

After swimming we went home and got ready to go see the Holladay fireworks. There's nothing like watching fireworks to patriotic music on the 4th of July. Best feeling ever. The fireworks show lasted about a half hour, the only downside was they played Les Mis and The Phantom of the Opera during the show, definitely not patriotic music! Afterwards we drove up to Wasatch Boulevard and watched fireworks pop up throughout the valley. At first we couldn't see any, but the more we looked you could see tiny ones appearing all over the place, it was pretty neat.

 Sometimes it's hard to get him to smile or pose normal... 

 Mary and I and our 4th of July gear!

Obligatory fireworks picture.

The next day we slept in until 11 am! We were wiped out. We spent the afternoon laying out by Jake and Mary's pool again, drinking McDonald's large soda's and relaxing. We ran some errands and got ready to go up Millcreek Canyon to cook some tin foil dinners. Madi and Gavin came up with us along with Jake and Mary. Right off the bat Jake and Aaron were off to fish while the rest of us tended the fire and ate our yummy tin foil dinners Madi prepared for us.

It was a perfect night and Aaron and Jake even caught and cooked some fish.... Naked and Afraid is really getting to Aaron haha he is always thinking of ways to survive. We ate plenty of s'mores and enjoyed the night up the canyon. Around about 10:40 a cop came by to ask if we were staying the night or not. We said no (there is a sign that says no overnight camping) and quickly put the fire out and cleaned up our stuff since the cop said he was closing the gate. We raced down and there we were stuck inside the gate. Definitely a jerk move if you ask me! 

After some deliberation Jake and Mary were able to hitch hike down the canyon and find the cop(there was no cell service). He begrudgingly opened the gate, but was totally rude about it.... as Madi said- he was the kind of cop that got made fun of when he was little.  So glad we figured it out cause it was a longer ways down the canyon than we thought!