Happy 4th

So we've slacked off on the blogging- but our excuse continues to be that since we don't have any kids, our lives aren't as entertaining... so in about 3+ years, our blog should be AWESOME!!

Eric's big (but smaller) sister had her baby last weekon June 25th. At 6 lbs. 14 oz. After waiting some 3 suspensful days for a name, they decided on Jack Ryan Gatherum. Lacey's other little girl, Ella, nick-named him Bidu (bee-doo) when he was still a fetus, and we think we are going to stick with that sweet name. We still haven't actually been able to see the baby cuz of some minor problems with Bidu's lungs and heart, but everything is going to be ok and Bidu should be home in the next few days and we will actually get to meet him.

He sure is a cute little bugger and we are so excited to see him and welcome him to the fam!

Eric has been waiting to start his new job with ADP, so it's been a lot of fun to hang out together everyday. Since I'm out of school for the summer, it's been wonderful to be able to spend the days together and swim, boat, clean, sleep, etc. Eric starts on Monday and it will be an adjustment to have him gone all day long.... no good!

We got to have a lot of fun yesterday for the big Holiday. We went up to Kaysville with Eric's family for the parade up there which included lots of candy and a finished up with a HUGE water fight with some 10 water trucks and a couple of fire engines spraying the crowd. We stayed out of the line-of-fire for the most part, but had our own fun spraying the rest of the family around our parade spot. By the time we got home, we squoze in a nap and got ready to head up to Deer Valley with Dad for dinner and the Utah Symphony's patriotic tribute.

The symphony played the Armed Forces Medley and they asked all those that had served in the military to stand when there song was played. Here's Eric's dad standing for the Army's anthem. It was cool to see him pop up out of his seat proudly when the song began.

The 4th of July was great and we were able to swing past my parents house to do some fireworks. They were the real good kind you get from the scouts-- 'Box 'o fun'! Deer Valley let us down on the fireworks so at least we were able to catch these before the day was over. Eric's dad was nice enough to take the two of us boating today. We had to be up to Farmington early to meet him, but it was a perfect day on the lake. We think that everybody did their boating on the 4th so today, the 5th, was very calm and not crowded at all. We both had pretty good runs today-- here's some killer-sick air!

Heather's got more grace!

All in all, it has been a great holiday week and it was good to get the R & R in before the big softball tournament in St George this week... many great tales to come from that.