Only 365 days to go...

I would dare say that the Weber State fireworks are my favorite day of the whole summer. I have went every summer since I was born I think. My dad used to go put out blankets the night before and then we would skip church, get KFC, and go spend the entire day at Weber State. I have tried doing that since but I just can't. I guess I am not as hard core as my parents used to be because it is way too hot to sit there all day. But I still go put out blankets early and then we go later in the evening.

This year Alyssa made dinner for us before we left. She made delicious chicken enchiladas! Mmm! She was quite the homemaker this night. Then it was off to the fireworks!

We took games to play while waiting for the fireworks to start but I didn't even last one round. The fireworks are literally the best people watching event ever! And the reason that they are so good is because there are so many people that I know that walk by. I always put our blankets right in the middle of the grassy area so that we can see as many people as possible. People watching is one of my favorite things to do. Annie, Braden, and I were pretty good at it.

Kiele and Cameron ended up finding us right before the fireworks started! Cam was so into the fireworks that he couldn't even look away to take a picture.

The day turned out to be just as good as I was hoping and I can't even wait for them again next year! Only 365 days to go...

It's Where Fun Is!

Raging Waters! I don't really know what I was expecting but I was not expecting to have as much fun as I did! We decided to go on the 5th since everyone had the day off. It was kinda pricy but oh so worth it.

We started off with breakfast supplied by Lynsie and her "dumpster diving" skills. She literally goes to Krispy Kreme and Hostess stores and goes through their dumpsters at the the end of the night. She brings home boxes of stuff. They are all still sealed and everything. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

BreAnn and I showed up in the same swimsuit! It was definitely a picture perfect opportunity.

Here are Steph and I with our "Brown Protection." It is a miracle tanning cream that Steph found and let me know about. It is pretty amazing and it made it even more amazing that the only place we could buy it was from the ABC store in Vegas. That somehow made it seem more legit. (Come to find out you can buy it lots of places but it still is amazing.) We used it periodically during the day and it literally protected us from getting burned and turned our skin to a beautiful brown color. Alyssa is convinced that it is cancer cream but we just turned darker brown after a day in the sun and Lyss turned lobster red from using supposed SPF 50 lotion every 5 seconds so I am even more convinced about our Brown Protection.

Here we all are after our fun day in the sun! We love Raging Waters!

We had to end the night with a treat so we stopped at our favorite place, Sub Zero. It was so delicious. If you've never been then you should go! They freeze the ice cream right in front of you! The day was so fun and I can't even wait to get a season pass next year! Thanks guys!

Fearless!

Taylor Swift was amazing! It felt like we had been waiting forever to see her and she did not disappoint! She was so dang cute and did amazing! I had heard that she was not good live and so I wasn't expecting her to sound all that great. But she did awesome! She was very entertaining to watch!

We had to make t-shirts to show Taylor how much we loved her! Steph, my mom, and I worked really hard to make sure that everyone had a real cute t-shirt.

We had to decorate Pearl so that everyone driving down the road would know how much we love taylor! Unfortunately we got caught in a random hail storm about 5 minutes after we left and it washed most of our had work off of the windows.

We practiced out concert skills the whole way to the concert!

When we got to the Delta Center we learned that Kellie Pickler was sick and wasn't going to perform for us. We were all really heartbroken. I love Kellie and was excited for her. But Gloriana did a pretty good job getting us pumped for Taylor. Morgan especially liked them.

Here we are waiting for Taylor to come out. We're really excited!

I loved every second of the concert! But one of the best parts...

All the sudden we look right below us and this is what we see... What is going on? Remember this is literally right below us.

Ahh! Taylor is standing at the portal right directly below singing one of our favorite songs, Hey Stephen! I could not believe that she was within probably 6 feet of us! And she hugged practically every single person on the way down to the floor. It was adorable. Usually singers do something fun like this to start the concert but she was very creative and did it randomly in the middle of the concert. It was great!

This was the look on Bailley and Morgan's faces the whole time. It was fun watching them.

Apparently the girls were pretty into the song Should've said no.

Here's the whole group! We loved every second of it!

Concerts always drain us! Everyone in this picture is so exhausted except for Bailley. I guess she wasn't even tired at all!

We all woke right up though when we were this close to Taylor! I'm pretty sure that Alyssa almost got ran over by the bus while we were chasing after it. BreAnn got a thumbs up from Taylor and Lynsie got one of the Taylor guitar picks that they threw out the window. It was so worth standing there and getting yelled at by the security officer for standing in the wrong spot on the sidewalk.

Taylor was so great! I had a blast. Thanks for all the great memories everyone! I can't wait for our next concert!