Celebrating the beginning of July

July is here...and finally so is summer!
June was a nice comfortable temperature with a lot of rain but, now it's hot.

Blade is still in school during the summer and received an "awesome" shirt and made a fun 4th of July necklace.

We purchased Stadium of Fire tickets as soon as they were on sale to the public so that we would be there to see the Jonas Brothers...the time finally arrived!

Chay helping with transportation for a little boy whose legs were "too tired".

Just hanging out waiting for the preshow to begin.

Okay, time to snack on something while waiting.

We received free flags with some free tickets that Dave was able to get through law enforcement. I was very surprised that tickets weren't sold out within days AND that free tickets were offered a couple of days before the show. Since we had tickets, that morning we gave the tickets to my friend's son and his family ...which included young girls so I'm sure they were excited!

Here they are....The Jonas Brothers!

We had young girls in front of us who were standing/jumping and screaming the entire time and so I watched almost all of the performance on the large monitor.

As always, the fireworks were impressive! We all managed to get hit with debris during the firework show. I know that I got hit hard on my leg and a little less on my cheek...nothing left a mark.

This huge 10 year old flag, which flew during the Winter Olympics in SLC, had put in its' time and it was time to retire it. It was interesting to see how they burned the flag.

Military men carried the flag into the stadium, put it into a metal container, placed a lid over the container and then the flag was burned. A person just doesn't get to see this event happen in their life.

And then more fireworks.

Since it has been hot, we decided it was time to get a pool for the yard so Blade could cool off....Nicole and Chay had this opportunity when they were young and we couldn't deprive Blade.
The amazing thing is that Chay BLEW up two of the sections because he was excited for Blade to use the pool and we couldn't find any of our pumps. Now that's love....

I blew up the last section outside while we started to fill the pool and Blade jumped right in before it was filled.

And yesterday, Blade experienced his first dentist appointment. he wouldn't open his mouth initially, which made it difficult for the hygienist to do her job but she was great with Blade and had him opening wide...

I love that there is a TV to watch while lying there. Blade watched SpongeBob, Chay watched something on the Disney channel...
And Blade definitely looked comfortable while waiting for the dentist to arrive...

And I haven't seen this much excitement on Blade's face since his birthday! He was deciding what to pick from the treat basket...he picked the airplane and played with it in the waiting room while we waiting an extended period of time for Nicole to finish.

And that' the update.
It's not that Blade is the favorite child, it's just that he's the one that it is the easiest to take pictures of and he has so many "firsts" happening.
But, Chay has grown a lot this past month...I'll have to try to capture that.

And now, it's time for me to go to work...and I mean at my "paying" job.