Parades, Presents and an Impromtu Talent Show!

Nobody does the 4th of July better than Provo Utah. 

Not trying to be all braggy about my home town but it's true :)

This was the first year our kids got to experience the Provo parade and they were loving it!

We all wore our family reunion shirts to be awesome and enjoyed front row seats on the curb.

It was TOASTY!! But These cutie pies did great even in the heat. 

One thing I love about the Provo parade is that they have floats with missionaries on them. So cool. :) And when the missionary float goes by everybody goes nuts like they're a bunch of rockstars. Love it!

 They also have the Living Legends! Holla! Brought back good memories from when Taber and I danced with them. 

The parade lasted about 2 hours and despite the molten lava temperatures the kids really did great!

Of course we had to let Cam ditch his pants and take over the iPhone but babies get special privileges.

Speaking of my iPhone, we lost it after the parade. Luckily we have an app that shows you where it is so we looked it up and someone had taken it to South Provo. We called the police and gave them the coordinates and they went after it! When they arrived at the address we gave them, sure enough, my phone was there! They totally would've arrested the dude that took it BUT.... it happened to be my innocent brother in law who was visiting friends in South Provo and unknowingly had it in his bag. hahaha! So yeah....at least we know the app works :)

After the parade it was back to the Uda house where my auntie Diane showered us all with presents! She has all boys, so she likes to spoil her nieces with girly gifts. She bought us necklaces, bracelets, lipstick and cute purses.

Naomi and I showing off some of the goodies we got from auntie. We were excited :)

We also tried to take an informal family reunion pic. My Dad is holding up the family tree in the background. He painted the tree and then we each added our thumbprints for the leaves . It came out really neat!

Here's a closer picture of the tree. There are still lots of empty branches for future grandbaby thumbprints :)

The rest of the day was filled with BBQ, games, hanging out, and even an impromptu talent show (video posted below.) We ended by watching the fireworks from my parents driveway. Awesome way to spend the 4th of July!

And now for your viewing pleasure I have included some sample clips of our talent show. It starts with a little dance by me, my awesome 5 month pregnant sister Sarah and her hubby Tau.  Sometimes we like to pretend we're hip hop dancers :) There's lots of dancing by the kids, a hula by Liz, and even an interpretive dance to Swan Lake.  If the embeded video doesn't work on the blog you can also click HERE to watch it on youtube. Enjoy!