Monday July 5th we woke up really early and ventured to the hot air balloon festival.  We joined the masses of tired and sleepy people.  Thanks to Driel and Grandma we had donuts, bagels, fruit, water and life was pretty great again.  Being woken up is hard on some of the kids.  Sterling and Bridget thought it was great to get up and go bright and early.  The hot air balloons were impressive up close, and very exciting to watch in the sky.  The kids, especially Sterling, really loved the pink pig!  Notice we all needed jackets in July, unusually cool morning!

After a pizza lunch we had the best water fight ever!  Logan had us save empty milk jugs just for this water fight.  Justin and Ammon taught us the fine art of how to drench someone with the spray from a milk jug.  This is not for the faint hearted…some opted to stay safe on the deck and toss a few  water bombs.  I was a bit wet, so I didn’t catch any action pics!

a needed refill of the jugs.

Justin taught Bridget and Logan the joys of eating caramel ice cream topping by the fingerful!

There’s always room for ice cream!

Bridget went shopping with Justin to get the pizza and ice cream.  She was very excited that Justin let her choose some of the food…what a little shopper.