4th of July

We recently thought about the almost six years that we have been married and realized that for all of those years except for one we have spent the 4th of July in Utah.  We love going to the freedom festival and enjoying the parade and picnic with family and close friends.  Given that we are new parents, and this is Ava's first 4th of July, we had two outfits picked out; the outfit below was Christina's choice for the day and the outfit that will come in later posts is the outfit that Brandon wanted for the day.  Obviously Christina's vote was weighted a little more than Brandon's.

We completely enjoyed the fourth of July, and while little Ava didn't seem to pay to much attention to the parade she sure looked cute in her holiday apparel. While these shoes may look cute the right shoe kept on falling off all day.  Definitely not a quality pair of shoes but the looks make up for it!

This picture was planned and taken multiple times in order to get the best view of the parade passing by.  As you can see the parade is packed every year and people camp out the night before to get the "good spots".  We came as the parade was starting and were still able to enjoy most of the colorful floats and balloons.

As discussed earlier the right shoe kept on falling off; fortunately for us Ava loves to wear shoes (mostly so she can chew on them) so she wasn't a bad sport about sitting there while we put them back on.

While at Ron and Patty's house (mom and dad's) we took the opportunity to have a photo shoot with one of the up and coming photographers in the area (he will soon be moving to Tennessee).  These photos are untouched and we can only imagine what they would look like if we touched them up a bit.

Happy 4th of July to everyone!  We are so blessed to be living in a country where we have all of the rights and freedoms that so many have fought for.  Hopefully we continue to be a choice land and choose leaders that will fight for those freedoms!