All the world's a stage

Since Sarah and I were little girls my mom always believed it was important for us to be well educated in the art of theater, so we always attended the Utah Shakespeare Festival which is held in Cedar City Utah . Over the years we have learned to love it and have sort of made it a tradition to take a trip to Cedar City in the summer. We have missed a few summers in the past so we thought it was time to go back. Since the weather is blazing in Arizona it was a wonderful time for getaway especially to Utah .

We drove up on Friday just in time for my mom and Anthony to catch the evening performance of As You Like It. The following day we toured the beautiful town of Cedar and between all 5 of us taking turns watching Lily we were able to see 3 plays. The plays included Private Lives, Foxfire, and Biloxi Blues. Lily was able to attend the Green Show which takes place every evening in a park like area on the campus of SUU. She had so much fun watching the dancers, singers, and jesters perform. She even got to taste her first English tart! It was so neat so see my own daughter enjoying something that I enjoyed so much as a child and still do.

Sunday morning was Sarah’s 27th birthday! On our drive back home we took a detour and went to Zion National Park . On the way in to the park we found a cute little apple orchard so we stopped and took a bunch of pictures. After a short morning of sightseeing in the beautiful park we headed home.














Lily reading on the drive.

Anthony and Lily going down a slide on one of our road trip pit stops.

Uncle Jeff and Lily making wishes and throwing pennies in a fountain.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTIE SARAH!!!

ZION!!













The Green Show

Happy Birthday America

This 4th of July was full of family and friends. We were lucky enough to share the booming holiday with Uncle Louis and Aunt Linda from Phoenix and Alex, Autumn and their kids from Yuma.
On Friday night Sarah held a BBQ at her house to start the weekend off. During the day on the 4th we went to our good friends the Johnsons for a pool party. In the evening we went to the lot where the fire works are set off and had VIP seating right under the big show. We get so lucky that mom is the coordinator of the fireworks show for Laughlin so we get to be up close to the action. I figured Lily might be frightened of the loud booms since we are so close but she actually really liked it. We are looking forward to next year and are counting our blessing for being able to live in this amazing country.