July 4th and Tyson's Birthday

So, Tyson's birthday is July 5th (he was born at 12:30 am....we think he may have been a fourth of July baby if his mom had not insisted on watching all the fireworks before going to the hospital). But, all growing up, Tyson thought that the fireworks on the fourth of July were really in celebration of his birthday, even though it was the next day! Sweet little Tyson. Such a funny kid. So, for the fourth of July we went to the Provo parade, which apparently is the thing. We saw people camping out almost two days in advance! We just showed up after it had started and got the same seats, go figure. We saw some pretty cool floats and Reed was pretty enamored by the whole thing. Then, we went to Tyson's aunts for the birthday of his cousin's little boy. We brought up our homemade blackberry ice cream (yummy) and stayed for dinner. Then, we drove back down to Provo and sat on the grass across from the MTC to watch the fireworks. Lastly, we went and did our own fireworks - it was a pretty long day! It all ended around midnight and I was exhausted, but still excited for July 5th - Tyson's 25th birthday!!!

We got to give our shout out to the military! The do so much for our freedoms! Thank you :)


Go cougs!!!!!

Tyler's birthday party at Aunt Susie's

The fireworks :)


The group of us that sat together...Tyson's Uncle and Aunt and family, and our family


For Tyson's birthday I wanted to make things really special - so I decided to wrap 25 presents! It was a lot of work, but the look of Tyson's face when he saw those presents on the couch was simply amazing. He could not believe that I had actually wrapped them all. He was just so excited! I loved it! It made me super excited! So, he opened some of his presents and we kind of just played all day! He took pictures with Reed, we made some Thai food, and we even went to the mountains to eat sub sandwiches for dinner! (I really miss those mountains now). Then, we came back and I had made cupcakes and put them in the shape of a 25 - a little tradition that I started last year. Tyson doesn't really like cake (weird, I know), but likes cupcakes. So, cupcakes it was. I love birthdays! It's hard to believe that Tyson is 25 and I am 26! Time sure is going fast, but it's been great.

Tyson trying to copy Reed's face

The beautiful mountains in the West! There are no mountains out here in Virginia :(

Tyson and Reed in the mountains eating sandwiches and pringles (Tyson's favorite)

The 25 presents that Tyson received on his 25th birthday!

The aftermath of opening all the presents!
Tyson wanted these rubber band things, so that he could at least pretend to work out!

The cupcakes in the shape of a 25