Happy 24th!

SO fun to be back in UT to celebrate the Utah holiday! We were able to go with cousins to the Bountiful Handcart Days parade last night and enjoyed watching the floats, sitting in the 100 degree heat, and catching lots of candy and toys that were thrown! The kids had a 2nd Halloween. Then we went across the street and ate at El Matador and enjoyed a nice Mexican meal. We went back home and crashed! We just moved units to a much quieter setting. Our upstairs neighbors in our old place liked to stay up til 2 and 3 am which didn't enable us to get to many restful nights! We all slept in this morning and it was pure heaven! Ry had to work so the kids and I ran some errands and then came back and made our traditional spray painted flag T shirts! They always love doing it and it's so much fun to see how different they all turn out from each other. They still need quite a bit of help from Mom (spray paint + apartments is not = to very good circumstances) but they planned them and put their tape and stars on where they wanted. We went out to the Handcart days booths and then to get a bite out. We topped it off by coming back, eating pie and ice cream, and sitting on our kitchen chairs on our little apt. porch laughing and being goofy. Life is definately more simple in a small space. We know it's not forever that we'll be here and so we're just trying to "enjoy the journey" and have fun no matter what! Happy 24th everyone!