Hot Air Balloons!

I love this first picture because I think I caught Sadie in the middle of saying "ball ball ball!!!" She was so excited to see such big "balls" or balloons. This morning we went to the annual balloon fest in Provo. It is such a fun thing to go to because you can walk right up next to them and see them up close as the are being filled and as they are taking off. We love the balloon fest. Sadie loved it too. She thought they were all balls at first, and then we told her they were balloons. But she couldn't say that word...so they were just balls the whole time. It was very early in the morning. We woke up at 5:55 in order to get there before the balloons took off because the funnest part is seeing them up close on the ground before they take off.

Anyway, right after we got there, they started taking off. It is so cool to look everywhere and see hot air balloons hovering just a few feet off the ground. Well, the next part of this event is where the pilots of the balloons get to come back and throw bean bags at a target on the ground or try to pop balloons that are tied to the ground but floating really high in the air. This gives them a certain number of points and the person with the highest amount of points wins. Well, I guess the air currents weren't cooperating because only 2 of the balloons could ever make it back to the field to throw their bean bags. We waited there for about an hour and a half until we finally just had to leave. It was kinda disappointing, but we got to see the big balloons take off. So that was cool.

Here they are taking off. There were probably about 15 - 20 balloons total. I don't know how they kept from colliding in the air because they all took off within seconds of each other it seemed.

This is me showing Sadie all of the balloons taking off. She loved it but it was pretty early and we had to wake her up to get there on time. So it took her a little while to warm up to them.

This is right when we got there. There were more people than I thought there would be.

Sadie and Daddy. I love these two!