4th of July

Every 4th of July we head down to Flaming Gorge, this year we had planned to bring our trailer.. however the axle fell off as we started our journey. So with a few change of plans we headed down on Friday and were squeezed into the Jolley cabin.. luckily there was room! It was the perfect weekend getaway to be in the mountains and on the river. There were a total of 9 families which meant 48 people! The kids made 4th of July shirts, we ate yummy food, found a new perfect spot for fireworks, played games.. and best of all rafted the river. With the water being so high this year it made the rapids particularly fun with lots of rollers, needless to say there was no staying dry on this raft run. Cookie was a champ, I don't think I have seen this girl every sit so still .. she loved it! After the main run down the river with all the kids we do our traditional girls raft trip.. and it seems as though every year we do this there is some catastrophe!! By the time we got on the water it was later and they had let out more water which meant more rapids.. plus we were already pretty weighted down, there were 9 girls on the 8 man raft! We hit every rapid, one which made the girls in front fly to the back.. laughed, squealed, and then got hailed on so hard we had to pull out onto the side and wait out the storm..it was a great time! Here is Jon lighting all the sparklers for kiddos!