Days of '47 Children's Parade and Festival

I have been bummed that I couldn't do any events for the 24th of July (July 24th is actually the final night of the Mrs. United States Competition), since it is a special day for Utah. Luckily I got to do the Days of '47 Children's Parade since it was the Saturday before I left.

We had water, treats and a jogging stroller. What more could you ask for?

Palmer was such a trooper. He walked the whole parade with me.

Here I am teaching all of the kids how to wave :) This sweet little girl came up and held my hand. I didn't know who she was, but she held my had for a while.

Here we are waving to the masses. Palmer was so cute!

Afterward there was a festival that was so fun! They had characters from Star Wars walking around. This is Lincoln's favorite movie (he isn't allowed to watch it anymore because he kept wacking people with "light sabers"). Lincoln wasn't even afraid of this guy. He kept giving him five and smiling the whole time.

When I walked up to Darth Vader he said "Hello your highness!" It threw me. The other characters couldn't talk and he sounded real! Josh actually got my reaction on camera.

As opposed to the Storm Trooper, Vader wasn't such a hit. He was WAY tall and the kids were a little freaked out by him (to tell the truth, so was I!)

Just one of the many rides that they had at this festival. The kids had a great time!

Pictures of the Sistas

I forgot to post these pictures. They were taken of all of my sisters at my little sister Heather's wedding. She was married May 9, 2008. It is fun because Josh and my wedding anniversary is the 8th. It was fun to spend the time in the temple remembering our wedding day. Heather looked like a princess!

My best friends!!! I truly love my sisters!

Thank You Best Buy!

I took my camera into Best Buy to see if they could figure out what was wrong with it. I just needed a new memory card. Apparently mine was worn out (I wonder why?) So that was a quick fix! I was so excited to get taking pictures that I just took pictures of what ever I could see. Palmer and Josh were playing some random game. I am sure the people in the store thought I was a complete wacko taking pictures of my husband and child playing some weird video game....any bets on how long it will take for this one the wear out?

A View of the Miss Utah Pageant

I went to Miss Utah on Sat. July 11. It was an amazing production. The women in this pageant were unbelievably talented, poised, beautiful and intelligent. This picture is with Jen Gulbrandsen. She is an amazing woman. I actually met her while she was performing for our pageant and she was completely warm and sweet. She did an awesome job and placed 2nd! The girl who won was amazing as well. She was Miss Sanpete County Kayla Barclay.

I went to the pageant with my directors Alicia Warnock and Ruth Bentley. They are both so great! I had a really fun night with them. It is funny how much I am mistaken for Jill Stevens. Her mother even got a picture of us together because she saw me walking into the pageant and thought it was Jill. Funny...I really don't think we look alike, it must be the hair!

Tag

The rules are as follows: List 3 Joys, 3 Fears, 3 Goals, 3 Current Obsessions, and 3 Random Surprising Facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.
Here goes......

Joys
1. Gospel
2. Children
3. Family

Fears
1. My children/husband dying
2. Spiders
3. House Fires

Current Obsessions
1. Facebook
2. Mrs. United States
3. Summer!

Random Surprising Facts
1. I love to wear heels-the higher the better!
2. I used to be a tom boy
3. I love Slurpees

I am tagging Michelle Palmer, Kim Layton, Natalie Nelson, Ruth Bentley and Natalie Murray
and anyone else who wants to give it a try.

4th of July

Mom and Dad always plan such fun things for the kids on holidays. They planned a swim party for the early part of the day.

Palmer's very favorite part of the night.

Just lounging in the pool.

I used to love jumping on the trampoline with the sprinklers underneath.

Yum Ice Cream!

We had a little scare when a bag full of fireworks caught fire and exploded.

Sparklers!

Hunter wasn't too fond of the noise.

Palmer and Blake.

All of the cute cousins together.

Real Salt Lake Soccer Game

I feel like I need to stock up on Summer memories to look at when it gets cold again. I find myself looking at my own blog already remembering things that we have done. Isn't this a cute picture of the boys.

All of us waiting at the Trax station for the "choo choo train" as Hunter kept calling it.

Still not here. We waited for a long time.

Our train is here...Love trax, no traffic to fight!!

Real Salt Lake. We are huge fans

Some fans got to sit and watch the game from a boat, I don't know why that is fun, but apparently it is.

Getting tired (the game started at 8:00 p.m.) The boys were so beat by the end of the whole thing!

Hunter and his "tired eyes."

Our family...I am a picture-a-holic!!

Some famous Utah celebrities who did a little show for us.

Amazing firework show again. Hunter didn't even cover his ears this time. He kept saying "look mom stars!"

Lincoln's "tired eyes."

Palmer was ready to drop on the train ride home. We had a fun time. I will love to read about this in January!

The Westfest-A Family Tradition...

The Westfest has been in my life since I can remember. Not that we ever went to it. It was always the place that you didn't want to be, because every scuzzy person in the world seemed to know it was going on and would come. They have tried really hard to clean it up and make it a classy event (I love the graffiti on the pole next to the sign-not much has changed :). I still wasn't so sure and didn't really want to go.

The boys saw it one day when we were playing at the park and were determined that we go. So I decided that it couldn't hurt to go for a short while. There was a guy in our ward that was singing and playing his guitar at it...so I thought we'd go support him (I didn't even know his name:).

We parked way far away and I think we were exhausted before we even got there.

When we got there low and behold one of my good friends from college, Kevin Jones, was there performing with his group. They are called "Eclipse" and are pretty popular around here. I guess I know a Utah celebrity.

The smell of cotton candy and cigarette smoke-why does it accompany everything fun? It reminds me of the State Fair, Lagoon, Disneyland etc.

We were going to let our kids ride three rides each...the lines were so long that they only got to ride this ride. Good thing they liked it!

This is Eclipse singing-no they didn't have bubbles coming down from the sky, my camera seems to do that some reason. I actually sat here the whole time and just listened to all of the entertainment. We all had a great time!

They had an amazing firework show. Hunter isn't sure what he thinks of them. Last year this was Lincoln (this year Lincoln did it a little too).

The firework show was really good and really long. We loved it.

They handed out 3-D glasses to everyone to watch the fireworks with. It was really cool-and who could pass up a photo op like this one, obviously not me!

For some reason they would't stay on Lincoln's head!

Wow-Nice huh?

Even Josh got into the spirit of things (okay I made him put them on to take a picture, but he was a good sport!!)

Ward BBQ

Our new ward had a BBQ a few days ago. This is really the first time we have done anything social with our new ward. It was really fun. They actually shot candy out of a "candy cannon" I think we will fit right in :)

While I ate dinner, the kids ate candy.

This may look like nothing to you, but it is actually the candy being shot into the air! Amazing!

The boys thought it was the coolest thing ever.

They still haven't learned the art of hoarding the candy though. They are so excited they take about three pieces and hide them in the pockets before anyone else can rip it away.

Hunter showing us his booty (candy booty that is).