Red, White & Blue Festival

This weekend was our community's Red, White & Blue festival. I can't believe the 4th of July is so close. This year is more than halfway over- I can't get over that!
Anyways, I love this little town and all the fun events they put together for the holidays and other random occasions.
On Friday we headed over to the ASUMH campus for some games, food and a movie. Tanner immediately found his little buddy, Austin Kingery, and they had a blast together.
Little Buddies

Seriously- I love this kid! (Notice his oh-so-patriotic shirt)

We had to walk around to every booth so Tanner could see what everyone had to offer. We played a few games...
Tanner playing the golf game- The kid's got skills!

The bean bag toss...

The boys got their face painted.
Don't ask me why Tanner always looks so serious after getting his face painted...

and then we enjoyed a snow cone to cool off.
(Tanner may have eaten most of it and consequently had a tummy ache that night- yeah-I'm a responsible parent)


Then it started getting dark and they set up the big screen to play the "Movie in the Park". They have these movies throughout the summer and they are usually at the park- but this one was on campus. The movie was "MegaMind" and it was so cute.
Before the movie started

Laying down to watch the movie

Tanner did good for about the first 2 mins...but then he wanted to get up and play. Eventually Chris took Tanner home and I stayed with my Brother (who showed up for the movie) to finish watching the show.

The next day we mostly took it easy. We spent some time at Nanny and Papa's and then Tanner took a nice long nap. He has been exhausted from the crazy late-night parties. We went to a birthday party at the park for one of Tanner's little friends and then grabbed some Sonic and headed over to watch the firework show. Which was really good (as usual- ASU always puts on a great show) and the weather really cooled off.
Tanner would not take his eyes off the fireworks- not even to smile for a picture.

Tanner wasn't sure how he felt about the fireworks. At first he was scared and just wanted to snuggle me.

Snuggling while watching the show

But then Uncle David held him and they counted off each time a firework sounded. David would say "1..2..3.." and then Tanner would yell "GO" and the fireworks would light up the sky.


I think he was convinced he was actually causing them.

Either way- it made Tanner happy and he was able to enjoy the rest of the show. Then we headed home, exhausted from another late night.
Thankfully now Tanner is down for a nap- and hopefully it will be nice and long!
We had so much fun this weekend and I'm glad we went. But now its time for me to take a nap. 6 1/2 weeks and counting until baby comes! YAY!