Summer is FINALLY here!!

Mother Nature took her sweet time sending us summer, but we are making good use of lost time!! We have spent many LAZY days in the Burrells "swimming hole", gone fishing, been bowling, and have seen EVERY current movie.


We celebrated the 4th of July on the 3rd of July because, well, I guess that is what Utahan's do when the 4th falls on a Sunday. Anyway, Shawn, Terry, and all the kids went fishing up at Catherines Lake, and Kathy and I spent the morning getting toesies done. We then went looking for new furniture for her formal living room. TOTALLY fun.... who knew we had such different opinions about furniture! We headed to the grocery store and then headed home to get ready for a simple BBQ.




While the "guys" took well deserved rests, we all assembled in the Burrells backyard to make homemade "pinwheels" and 4th of July commemorative t-shirts. We dipped pipe cleaners that were bent to make "firework" shapes into glitter fabric paint and made firework shirts! A little messy, but fun!!


Dinner came next. We ate BBQ ribs (the best ever!), corn on the cob, BBQ beans, potato salad, and a fresh corn, avocado, cilantro salad. We drank a concoction of sprite, with red (fruit punch powerade) and blue (blue raspberry powerade) ice cubes. Looked COOL!!















After dinner came the fireworks!! Terry and Shawn both bought TONS! We started out with sparklers and snakes, but quickly progressed to the big guns! After fireworks we finished with ice cream sundaes and watermelon cookies.

GREAT DAY!!!