4th of July Midway STYLE

 Our friends Rachel and Bryan invited us to spend the weekend with them at their parents cabin in Midway.  Our girls were so excited to see their friends and spend the weekend with them.  The Garner's live in St. George so we don't get to see them very often.  We went up on Saturday afternoon.  We hung out for a while and then decided to go to Provo for dinner and to watch the fireworks.  We ate at one of our favorite restaurants, The Old Spaghetti Factory.  Then we headed over to the BYU stadium.  They were having the stadium of fire that night.  We didn't have tickets but thought we would enjoy the fireworks.  We sat right out side the stadium and could here the whole concert.  The kids were able to run around and be crazy while we sat and enjoyed each other's company.  The fireworks were amazing and by far the best we have seen in a long time.  The only bad thing about that night was trying to get out of traffic.  Once we left out parking spot we drove about a half a block and quickly came to a dead stop.  We sat in our car for 20 min. with out moving an inch.  I decided to walk up aways and see what the hold up was.  I could tell we weren't going anywhere soon.  We turned the car off and the kids sat and watched a movie.  It wasn't very long before both the twins needed to go to the bathroom.  UGHHHHHH.  So I went to the closest house where the people were sitting outside and asked if my cute little girls could use their restroom.  They were an elderly couple and were so sweet.  I think the man had alzheimers because he kept telling us the same stories over and over again and his sweet wife would just let him do his thing.  We ended up visiting with them for quite sometime and then a knock came at the door.  John was telling us the line was finally moving.  It had been just over an hour since we had turned the car off.  The time actually went really fast since we were visiting with our new friends.  We finally got home very late that night and all the kids were asleep.  Once we got the kids in bed we enjoyed some late night nacho's and visited until early morning.  The next day we just hang out and were completely lazy.  The kids spent most of the day having rides on this.  (can't remember what they called it:)  They all took turns driving and riding in the back.  Once they were done riding they were insistant on riding the horses.  None of us had ever saddled a horse and the scary thing was that it was a neighbor's horse that they were keeping on the property.  So Bryan went in a spent a few minutes watching some youtube video's and within a few minutes the kids were taking turns riding the horse.

 Horse's make me completely nervous, especially since we didn't know the history of the horses. 

 Payge was having a hard time waiting for her turn. 

 She was so excited to finally get her turn on the horse but I was so nervous and was relieved when her turn was over. 

 Our girls absolutely adore their kids and I really think that Adie could have been Brilynn's twin sister.  nd Their personalities are identical and they even have a lot of the same mannerisms.  It's really fun 2 watch the 2 of them together.  Monday morning we woke up VERY EARLY and left midway at 5:30 in the morning to see the balloon festival in Provo.  As soon as we got there they made an announcement that the weather was to windy so they wouldn't be flying the balloons that morning.  It was such a dissapointment for the kids.  We were still able to walk around and watch them inflate some of the balloons. 

 Singing the national anthem. 

This darth vador balloon came all the way from Belguim.  They said this hot air balloon was close to $500,000.  I am sure they were as dissapointed as the kids were that they weren't able to fly them.  We then went back to Midway and had a yummy breakfast.  After that Bryan and John got in 1 more good tennis match and then it was time for us to head home.  Thanks Bryan and Rachel for inviting us.  We look forward to going again soon.