Worn out from playing at great-grandma Anns

The Freedom Festival Parade

Normally I'm not a big parade person, I don't really know why, but my parents were so my guess is that it was just instilled in me.  But this year because the weather was really nice and we had friends who saved us a spot we decided to go.  Derek really liked it, except for all the people.  He gets really nervous when he is around lots of people.  He really loved the bands, and the floats.  But his favorite was ...

Another Fly-over Perfect!

The Missionaries!

The American Fork Marching Band

... But by far his favorite was Cosmo and the BYU Truck.  He loved the giant semi, sorry I didn't get a picture a good picture this picture came from a newspaper because mine was so blurry I couldn't even make it out.  Maybe one day I will learn to take better pictures.

Stadium of Fire! - Brad Paisley

My Dad shows spoiled all of us this year by buying us tickets to see Stadium of Fire!  This is a show that is put on every year and it is the place to see fireworks.  We all got babysitters and we had a lot of fun.  This year David Archuletta and Brad Paisley were the performing acts and man were they good.  I personally am a huge Brad Paisley fan, so I loved every minute of it and so did Corey.  My camera was being kind of weird so a lot of these pictures came from different newspaper websites etc.

The F-16 flyovers are always one of my favorite parts, I always think of my Grandpa Hatch when I see these.

Chris, Dad, Dani and Tyson

Corey and I

Just waiting for the show to start!

Mom, Nate and Jen

Man he is a good looking man

You could feel the heat from these!

These fireworks were amazing!

Davis Ranch

Several weeks ago Corey went to the Mother's group.  My ward often puts together little outings like to a park for example, and this lets the women get together and the children play especially in the summer when the kids needs to get out.  Well, Corey being the stay at home Dad in our family took Derek because they were going to Davis Ranch.  Davis Ranch  is the property of one of the ladies in our ward, and she has everything a kid could dream of.  Swing sets, play houses, ponds with canoes and paddle boats, and their is a little bit of a beach on the pond as well.  The Mother's actually love it when Corey shows up because he helps take the kids in the Canoe's.  Below is Derek with one of his best buddies Marcus.  I love and appreciate that Corey wasn't just one of those guys that sat around doing nothing during his layoff, instead he went out and created lots of fun memories with his little boy.

Getting ready for the Canoe

A One Man Picnic

One day last month, Derek told Corey that he wanted to have a picnic so they took their lunches that Corey had just made and went outside, and Derek had a one man picnic!  This kid loves to be outside and will do anything to stay outside.  I thought these pictures were really quite cute.  I've been really lucky that while Corey has been laid off that he has been really good about taking lots pictures so that I don't feel quite so out of the loop.

The Zoo

Back in June Nate and Jen were sealed, afterword we decided that the family would all go up to the zoo.  It was a pretty warm day and we learned that that is not the time to go to the zoo. All the animals were hiding and sleeping, we decided that from now on we will always go early in the morning so that we can actually see the animals that we paid to see.

The had a lot of dinosaurs all through out the park.  Derek loves dinosaurs on TV in fact one of his favorite shows in Dinosaurs Train, Imagine that Dinosaurs and a train all rolled into one, that makes for great television.  However, when Derek saw the real life replica's they scared him a little.

Giddy-up Cowboy!

Glow Sticks

So some people may wonder what should you do with the glow sticks that you gave your kids to play with while your doing fireworks outside, well here is the answer!  We had so much fun shooting off fireworks with Ben, Kari and Parker Mecham our friends who were in town from California.  This has kind of become a tradition for us to do.  Even though they live far away, it seems like they always come into town on the 4th of July and we always get together make some good food, Corey makes his famous virgin daquiris, and we shoot fireworks.  This year many of our neighbors joined us in this party, and well.  We had the time of our lives.

The Tricycle Obsession

 Only our kid! This is just how obsessed with his tricycle he really is he can't leave it outside the park restroom, cause it might get lost.  Derek refuses to share his tricycle and would ride this thing all day long if we would let him.  It is so bad that during the winter he will wear a thousand pounds of clothes just so that he can ride.  When it snows we have to shovel him a riding track (mainly a figure eight) so that he can still ride.  I'm almost wondering if this is something that we are going to have to go see a therapist for later in life.

Tricycle Video

Whoo hoo!

Doughnuts are Everywhere!

Wow thats alot of doughnuts! They are EVERYwhere.

Corey took Derek to Krispy Kreme for the First time today!  Looks good, and just looking at the picture is making me hungry.
Notice the sunglasses he likes to be cool  daddy!