Thursday, July 9, 2009

Our Happy 4th of July!!! Sun Valley style!!!

Chris' parents spend every 4th of July up in Sun Valley so we went up for the day and were treated to a wonderful day with them. It all started out with a delicious breakfast put on by the Cub Scouts every year. From there we went just down the road to the antique tent sales and spent the better part of the morning there finding little treasures. I found a cute little covered wagon model to put in the kid's room (cowboy/cowgirl theme) and a blue enamelware cup for their play stove.

Then Brady rode back with Grandpa on his tandem bike (8 miles!!!) to the campsite. While we waited for them to get back to the campsite I saw these gorgeous horses alongside the road and just had to take pictures!!!




We were going to go ice skating at the famous Sun Valley Lodge but a rainstorm came in and ruined the ice! Darn it! Maybe this fall!!!

We had a wonderful dinner at the Sun Valley Golf Club and Brady got to put on the practice green! He could have stayed there for hours, he was right in his glory!!!

Sun Valley Golf Club:
We got a pretty descent shot of our family for the 4th of July.
(I made Livy's outfit, isn't it cute??)

Grandma Jones and Mom Graf enjoying the sunshine in the club's diningroom! We couldn't have had a prettier view with the mountains and the course right in front of us!
My meal was grilled lamb kebabs over a greek salad with grilled pitas and dill taziki yogurt- it was delicious!!! I'm pretty sure this was the first time I had lamb too!
Other meals we had were steamed mussels in a white wine sauce, grilled tostadas, slider burgers, kobe beef burgers and sweet potato fries! All so good!!!
This picture cracks me up!!! Chris was trying to get Olivia to give him a kiss and she msacked him instead!!! Funny girl!!
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I snuck outside while we were waiting for dinner and took some pictures:


Brady had so much fun golfing that he didn't want to leave!!!




We ended the evening with some awesome caramel apples and smores. Mom and Dad got the apples at a little candy store called Rocky Mountain Chocky Factory and there were all kinds like heath crunch, pecan, oreo, cheesecake, white chocolate coconut and apple pie (my favorite). We even had our own little portable fire pit to roast smores and keep us warm while we waited for the fireworks!
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And, a "funny" thing happened while we were waiting for the fireworks. We parked at the LDS church parking lot along the side of the road where the field was that we watched the fireworks at. Olivia had fallen asleep and it was cold outside so we decided to let her stay sleeping in the car with the windows cracked. Grandma Jones was staying in their car right next to our so she was watching Olivia and we would check on her every 10-15 minutes. Well, when Chris got up to go check on Livy he noticed that there were 3 police cars parked in front of our car (we were only about 100 feet from the car). So he walked over there and they said that a concerned citizen had called about a baby left unattended in a vehicle...long story short, we explained that Grandma was "watching" her and we were checking in on her and all was fine. Just to make everyone feel better Grandma got in our car and stayed there for the rest of the evening!
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It gave me a little fright that I hadn't thought anything of just leaving Olivia there since the vehicle was locked and in sight and Grandma was right there. I actually am a social worker and worked in child protection for almost a year so it was all really crazy that someone called in on us!
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Oh well, we can laugh about it now!

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