4th of July Fun!!

We were so excited to join the larkins up at her parents house in a tiny little town in the middle of the state called Round Mountain. It is a mining town & the mine knows how to celebrate the 4th!The morning of the 4th was the fishing derby where the kids as young as 18 months get a chance to catch some fish. Nick & Adam both tried to help Bennett catch a fish, but they kept breaking our lines. They were crazy! However I was able to reel one in (for Bennett of couse)! It was my second fish the first of which was caught at the same place two years ago. In the afternoon the mine throws a HUGE BBQ celebration with midway games, bingo, panning for gold, and some other things. We finished off the night with a talent show with Angie's family. Angie & I learned a hula from a couple girls in our ward. I messed up,but we did have fun! The next day we went for a picnic & Blaze was more than happy when I stripped him down to play in the creek. We had a lot of fun & are anxious to go again!

In the bottom right picture, Adam gave Blaze a zicada...yes, those really annoying buzzing things that invade Vegas every summer. Blaze decided to crush it. GROSS!

Busy...kind of!

Sorry for the lack of posting these days! Adam has had midterms, so computer time has been scarce! To start...Cortney's birthday was a couple weeks ago and Christina made (with my help, of course...I picked out the beads all by myself!) a beautiful necklace. I made the bracelet & then a similar one for myself with the leftovers. It was really fun. One more hobby to catch my interest...as if I have time to do the things I already know how to do!

Bennett has been honing his photography skills. He took this one of Blaze that I thought was too cute!

We had a small get together last week, to say our farewells to the Dickersons’ as they are moving to AZ tomorrow. This is what Bennett’s room looked like at the end of the night. I do have to say that the kids had fun & let us visit pretty well.

One of Adam’s patients gave him 4 tickets to the Barry Manilow show. So we enjoyed the company of Bri & Derek Cunningham. Barry does put on a good show, however we knew about 3 of the total songs…mainly because he did some cover songs. Despite such a difficulty we made it a party & had quite a bit of fun!

At the show they handed out glow sticks, so we brought a couple home for the kids to play with...they thought it was pretty cool! Look close!