The 24th

We had a great 24th of July celebrating Utah's Pioneer Day. The day started out with Allison having a bath with her favorite friend, lion. He is SO loved and needed to be washed anyway. He barely survived his near drowning experience! Here he is exhausted and trying to recover :)

Next on the agenda was a trip to the aquarium with Grandma and Grandpa Spongberg. Everyone enjoyed it and they had a lot of wonderful animals. Allison loved to watch all the fish, jellyfish, rays, sea snakes, sharks, octopus, and well, everything. She would watch them and try to grab at them through the glass. They also have added a new section with South American animals. There were spiders, frogs, fish, an anaconda, and much more.

Maybe our favorite part was where you can touch the rays and some fish! This was very cool. They feel like rubber.

After the aquarium we all went up Big Cottonwood Canyon to roast hot dogs and hamburgers. This is one our families favorite activities. We love the cool air and the sound of the river. The food was delicious and the company was even better.

Allison with her Grandpa and Grandma Spongberg.

We ended the day with fireworks! It was so fun to see Allison enjoy fireworks for the first time (on the 4th of July we were in the mountains and didn't do fireworks). She really liked them!

We love sparklers!

Our neighbors had family in town from Dubai and India and in Dubai they do not allow fireworks to be done on the street so they came out and watched our fireworks from their front porch. After our little fireworks show Dave and I were going to walk up the street to see the big fireworks show put on by the city. We went over and invited them to come with us. So Ratka and her 3 1/2 yr old daughter Smita from Dubai and the grandfather from India came with us. We loved talking with them and the fireworks lit up the sky!

We sure made a lot of memories that day....