Flaming Gorge Days

(Pax picking up as much candy as possible. We kept having to tell him to stay back since he was going out so far in the street. He just didn't want to miss ANY candy.)

Last weekend was Flaming Gorge Days. We enjoyed the fun by going to the parade. Pax was lots of fun this year. He was a kid with a mission when it came to catching the candy being thrown. He figured out that if I held his bag he could run and pick up as much as possible in his hands and then bring it back to me. This was his best chance at getting a lot of candy ... and he did! He managed to get a HUGE bag full of it. Too bad for him that his dad's a dentist because most of it already went in the trash and the rest he has forgotten about since its sitting on top of the fridge. Oh well, the fun part is getting it all!

(Pax watching the parade. He LOVED all the trucks ... semi's, fire trucks and buses.)

(Paxton playing with his lady bug. We found her in our house on the stairs. Pax played with her while he waited for the fireworks.)

At the end of the concerts each night they let off fireworks. We have a great view of them from our back deck. So I let Pax stay up to watch them with Grandpa, Grandma and I on Friday night. He was so excited! Saturday night it was just Pax and I and he just couldn't keep his eyes open ... it had been a long day. So I woke him up when the fireworks started and he watched for a few minutes but then asked if they were over. He could barely keep his eyes open. I told him they were ... although we had barely seen any of them ... and put him in bed. It was a fun weekend. It would have been perfect if Bryce had been here too. We were really missing him while he was in Boston.

Paxton also went for a hike up to Eagle Rock with Grandpa, Uncle Eric, Hunter and Haley. He LOVED the hike. He's been talking about it all week ... the bones and claws they found, lizards, caves, etc. Living by family is so nice, especially for Paxton to have fun experiences like that.