The Ranch and 4th of July!

We got to go to Stadium of Fire this year for the 4th!  I had never been before, and Carrie Underwood sang (Ah-May-Zing).  AND it wasn't cheating on our annual tradition (Scott and I talked all through the 4th of July fireworks 2 years ago and kept talking until we looked up and realized the entire crowd had completely cleared out and it was 2 in the morning....we had only known each other a few days and started dating from that point on).  So it wasn't cheating to not go back to the original lawn-by-the-temple location of our first Fireworks, because these were the same fireworks - we just got to see them from INSIDE the stadium, not from across the street on the temple lawn.  These things are important and must be explained.  Anway....
Crew Loved the Stadium of Fire.  We put plugs over his ears to block some of the sound - it was LOUD!  He Loved the singing and the bright fireworks.  He snuggled right in and stared, took it all in. Oh I love this boy.  And the big one holding him. 

We also got to go to the Ranch for the 4th.  I love getting away to the Ranch with no cell phone service, no internet.  It feels a little weird for the first few days, and then I love it. My Great Grandpa bought the ranch during the great depression and it is 10,000 acres of beauty. This is Scott and I at the Ranch 2 years ago. We had just started dating.  We went last July when I was preggo and this year with Crew.  My grandpa came when he was a little boy, and he came with his grandkids when we were little, and the ranch just makes the generation gap seem so small because not much has changed in all those years.  Crew never met my Grandpa Haynes, but it sort of felt like I was introducing them when I took Crew to the Ranch.