American Family

Provo is the best place to be for the 4th of July.  There are so many things to do with the Freedom Festival.  We decorated our family bike for the festivities and rode down University Avenue the night before where everyone is camped out.  I read online that they have over 300,000 spectators for the parade! Crazy.  The morning of the 4th we started out by watching all of the runners line up for the Freedom run outside our house.  Then later we biked down to the parade, but only towards the end.  The kids were up late the night before, so we let them sleep in for a while.  After watching the parade, we rode down to the festival.  We walked around for a bit, ate some food, got some free ice cream, and decided to head home because we were all hot, sweaty, and tired.  Later that evening we had a BBQ at our house with Brendan's family.  Brendan's sister Taryn and her family flew in earlier that day.  It was fun for the cousins to be together.  After the BBQ, we walked up to campus and found a spot on the grass behind the BYU Alumni building to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks.  To finish the night off, we all came back to the house for some dessert.

Had to have some patriotic food. 

Hattie loved chowing down on this corn.

Hattie and Miriam both dressed in their patriotic dresses.  Hattie is 5 months older.  Hattie kept trying to get away when we sat her down.

All of the Rowland cousins.  Hazel had already had an accident in her 4th of July outfit and had changed, and her hair was crazy with all of her rolling around in the bounce house.