JULY!!!!!

This months happenings were sporadic and different. We had to get creative with our limited budget, but we think we managed. It was a month full of family reunions for both Nate and Ash's families and tons of fun! Nate got to see Yellowstone for the first time.

Puzzles and Pudding nights

Epic sunsets on Cedar Hills...hill

Fourth of July fun with Ash's parents and our great friends the Burtons, while watching the sky explode with aerial fireworks (first year for legalization in Utah) from Cedar Hills was an epic show! The morning of the Fourth we attempted to hike to the Timpanogos Caves but ended up driving up the canyon to find a beautiful lake was a total plus!
Nate got Ash to make chocolate chip cookies without chocolate chips.... rare, but he was happy!

We saw 'Explosion In the Sky,' a free park concert in Salt Lake City, which made Nate a very happy person. They were epic to watch, but Ash got turned off to the concert after watching a pregnant woman light up some drugs (priceless). One of the fellow participants....

That same night after the concert in the city, we returned home and felt obligated to see the last Harry Potter opening night, despite Ash's need to wake up early for work, so what did we do....
We woke up at 2am to watch the final episode of Harry Potter in 3D..... dedication!

Nate's family came into town for the 24th of July (which is a big day for the Pioneers to settled Utah it was they day they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley). So what did we do, celebrated it with being American as possible, a Bees baseball game!
Then we headed up the road to Idaho to catch Ash's extended family's Fullmer family reunion in Island Park. And traveled up the road to Yellowstone National Park were Nate got to see some of the rarest attractions in the world.

Thermal energy at it's best Geysers, Hot Pots, and crazy wildlife like Bison. Sadly Nate didn't get to see a bear.