Happy Pioneer day

For the 4th of July fireworks, Caleb was sound asleep. So for the 24th, we were excited to introduce him to fireworks. We had plans to go to a local park @ about 10pm, but we decided to do some of our own fireworks at our home before we went. Caleb went ballistic. We couldn't even do sparkelers without him crying. This video was towards the end and we didn't have any more "loud" fireworks left, so he had actually mellowed out by this point. But as you can see, he did not like the fireworks, therefore, we decided to bag the idea of big fireworks at the park. There's always next year! Poor Caleb.

We did have a fun afternoon and went to the center street parade.

Summertime fun

Over the 4th of July we went to St. George with my family. We had a great (and very HOT) time with my family and our boys had a blast with their cousins. We watched the fireworks, hiked the emerald pools in Zion's, and just enjoyed time with family.

Beautiful Zion

A tuckered out Caleb

Resting at the first pool

The second pool

All done!!!

Caleb playing at a splash pad park!

Cute cousins

Kissing cousins???

I had girl's camp last week (hardly took any pics as you can see), but I have to say I had a lot of fun. I don't know what it is, but being up in nature, surrounded by girls ages 12-18 with a few leaders, really brings out my inner teenager. I think I am known as the crazy dancing/singing leader. I got a few interesting comments from the girls. One was shocked to find out I had 3 kids (maybe because i don't seem mature enough to have children??) and then she said, "do your kids just love you?" I said I sure hoped they did, but they also think I'm crazy. When I came home, I asked J if he thought I was crazy, he said, "yes, but not all the time." I hope that's what those young women learned from me. There is a time to be crazy, but there is also time to be serious and spiritual. We did plenty of each, so I hope that is what they learned.


Heber Valley Camp

My girls hiking through stinging nettle :o

This week Mark is at a scout camp. I miss him. It's hard when we have camps back to back. He has to go again in a few weeks. :( We took J and A to see the new Harry Potter movie last weekend. It's only rated PG, so it wasn't too scary, but it was a little over A's head. He got a little bored during the movie and kept asking to go home. J thought it was great, but sad at the end. All you HP fans know what I'm talking about.

A few weekends ago we went up the canyon with our friends Heidi and Craig and their girls. Here are our kids with their whistle pops!



Oh, and I turned 30! Yay me!