July 2 - Balloon Festival

We woke up at 5:30 this morning to go to the Balloon Festival!  You read that right: FIVE THIRTY IN THE MORNING.  It was totally worth it though.  We all had a wonderful time!

At first, we were all pretty tired.  Notice Haze in the back of the stroller with a blanket on his head.  Must take after his Mother.

But then when the balloons started filling up, we perked up a bit!

Once the balloons were all full....

....they took off and we watched them float around in the beautiful morning sky!  (The poor Piggy Bank got a hole poked in him by the cowboy balloon and had to make a crash landing in a construction site.  The kids had a rough time with this, but we managed to get through the morning.)

Nora could not get enough!  She was pointing and squealing left & right!

Me & Bryan were there too.

After a while, we got tired again and did some snuggling.

We had to get a picture of "Dark Vader and Yoga" (as Haze calls them) before we left.

And get a felfie, of course!  (Felfie = Family Selfie)  We talked about the balloons for the rest of the day!  We were so glad that we woke up to go see them!

When we came home, Hazey & Mommy spent some time waking up on Mommy's bed while Daddy got ready for work.

 

After Daddy left for work, Andlie & Haze went to work.  They came upstairs & said, "Mom!  We made ear plugs for fireworks and we're gonna sell them!"

"2 dollrs and 4 ses eer plugs for fiawrx - Happy foth fo jliy!  Fram Andlie."  (2 dollars and 4 cents - ear plugs for fireworks.  Happy fourth of July!  From, Andlie)

We left for Logan around 5:00 this evening.  The waking up before the sky woke up this morning made for a pretty quiet trip up.  (Even though it took us 45 minutes to get 15 miles.)

 

When we got to Logan, we visited at Grandma & Grandpa Allen's house and then Grampa Puppy took us all out to eat at Golden Corral!  Then to our hotel to bed for us.  (Nora wouldn't go to sleep until 1:00 am because she could see us.  Andlie woke up at 3:00 am saying that Haze was kicking her.  She ended up sleeping on the couch cushions on the floor.  Nora woke up at 5:00 and ended up in our bed.  It was a rough night.)