Fourth of July in Blanding

Every year Josh's family all gets together in Blanding for the Fourth of July. The city puts on a huge celebration with a parade, a bunch of different sports tournaments, a carnival for the kids, a firework show, and much much more. Josh and I have not been able to go for a couple of years since we have been in Texas going to school. We were definately excited to finally go back down to Blanding. We always have a good time. All the grandkids love to play together at grandma's house.


This trip we actually decided to take a hike up to Bears Ears where Josh's uncle Johnny had placed a time capsule many years ago. We decided we would hike up and dig up the time capsule and see what was in it. We took J.J. and at the last minute we decided to leave Bailey at the bottom of the mountain with Grandpa Slavens. We soon found out that that was a very good idea considering the hike was a much more difficult hike than originally estimated! We had a great hike even though Josh had to carry J.J. the majority of the time.




On the way back we decided to stop at Bridges National Park. It was pretty amazing and we were surprised we had never been in all our trips to Blanding. It was Beautiful and we will definitely be making another trip there the next time we go to Blanding.



J.J. was completely exhausted after the long hike, and visit to Bridges! He was sound asleep after about three minutes of being in the car! What a hard life.

On our way out of town the boys decided that the trio would not be complete if they did not go jump in the lake in there speedo/underwear!! If you know the Slavens you know they are all crazy and always up for a fun time! So all the boys jumped in the water. It was pretty chilly, but J.J. did not want to miss out on the action and had to jump right in after his dad. I love these boys.