The Best Holiday of the Year...

Everybody knows that summer is the best season of the year, hands down. What makes it even better? The best holiday of the year.

The fourth of July.
I love it with my whole heart.
Everything about it.

I love BBQ's, fireworks, parades, America, camping, days off of work, socializing, live music, cotton candy, laying on blankets on the grass...you name it, I love it. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin. The Statue of Liberty, baseball games. Red, white and blue.

Our wonderful, amazing, brave, heroic troops. I love them a whole lot. Those that have made it back and those that paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

I was pretty worried about this July 4th being a dud, my family was all going to be out of town, and I've been in a rut as far as my social life goes. Turns out that it's been the best one I can remember!

It started Friday night when Jamie, Morgan, Kaitlyn, Jed, Andrew, Zach and I hiked up Spanish Fork Canyon at midnight to go to hot springs. Then there was longboarding to the Eaglewood firework show with Ben and Zach and meeting Morgan after for some good old In N Out happiness. Camping last night was a stroke of genius on Zach's part; everyone is apparently pretty excited about being able to legally do aerials, because from our vantage point on a ledge in the mountains we could see the area from North Salt Lake to Syracuse and the sky was COVERED with fireworks! The Kaysville parade this morning with Lindsay, Justin, Brynleigh, Andrew and Zach was incredibly fun, I had never been before! It was pretty excellent! I'm on my way to a BBQ with friends now and then MORE fireworks after.

Seriously, it's been the best. I needed this weekend.

God bless America, the land that I LOVE!!

Aroha