the fourth and our journey to get here…

We listened to Shiloh (highly recommend…great questions raised for some good discussions with the girls).

 And we went a tad-bit stir crazy and were soooo excited to reach the pine trees of Park City!

I wish I had had the foresight to take footage of these girls reuniting with their grandparents.

And a few aunts and cousins they adore.

You would have thought they hadn’t seen each other for ten years!

I tucked them away snuggly with those wonderful people and left within a half hour to go catch my red-eye to meet the boys in Ohio.

…on an extremely overbooked flight.  Yow.

Luckily they had a pretty awesome celebration for the 4th on the night of the 3rd in Ohio (since we would be on flights on the night of the 4th).  We watched a pretty spectacular firework show perched on the top of a parking lot in Columbus:

 …with about a gazillion other folks with the same idea.

 The little girls spent the 4th Utah-style with some of my family:

And I can’t wait to hear what adventures Elle had on the 4th…she has been in Paris this weekend, poor girl 🙂