I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

July 4th, 2009

After leaving Melissa's house in Park City, we headed down to Kaysville to spend the evening with Belinda and her family. We watched the fire works with them at Davis High school. We watched them there last year to and boy do they put on a show! They have free bounce house's for the kids and you can get really close to where the fire works are. So close that by the time they were over, my neck hurt! After the fire works we headed back to their house and shot off the ones that Anthony and I had bought. We didn't get home till 12:30. Boy were we tired! It was really great getting together with Anthony's sister and her family, and tomorrow we will be headed to Pinview Reservoir for Anthony's annual family reunion! It's going to be great!
Hailey playing soccer
Alyssa in her Uncle Sam hat
Ashlynn...just excited to be with cousins!
Olivia~Sydney~Ashlynn~Hailey~Alyssa
Hailey with a mouth full off Butterfinger! Yum!
Alyssa was so enthralled with the fireworks! She's never sat so still!

Happy 4th of July!

3 comments:

kate said...

Cute. I love the pic with you looking up!

kate said...

Oh, and Phoenix has always been in the cards for our move.. it's was the back up plan. Turns out you need those with this economy.

Graham is fortunate enough to be able to work for one of his brothers and go to school so that was a major plus. I'm just praying that I can find work soon. uggh.

Elder Larkin said...

I love the firework pic at the end that's really cool.