Pioneer Day Parade

Palmer was determined to wear his cowboy clothes to bed the night before Pioneer Day. We asked him why he was wearing them and he said "Pioneer Day is tomorrow, and I don't want to be late!" So cute.

We brought games and snacks and breakfast to eat while we waited for the parade to start.

We bought the little boxes of cereal so the boys could pick which cereal they wanted to eat.

They thought it was fun.

And any event is more fun with treats...

We played Uno together.

McKay was so good and even took a nap in his carrier while we were waiting for the parade to begin.

Lincoln was the first to get Uno.

Hunter LOVES to have milk mustaches. In this case it is a yogurt mustache.

Can you see where Hunter is hiding?

The cowboy took a little nap.

President Uchtdorf was in the parade. We were all so thrilled to see him.

This was my favorite float. There were dozens of sparkly crickets on it. I couldn't believe how well done it was. It must have taken them forever.

A couple of weeks ago a lady came to our house selling stuff and asking for donations for this float. We gave her some money and she told me to look for the float that I helped to create. So everyone be proud of ME, ,I helped this come to be :) It was for "Mama's Gospel Choir" or something similar.

This was my second favorite float. It was "How to Train Your Dragon" and so well made. The people looked exactly like the show!

The announcer COULD NOT pronounce Liahona. We were sitting by a large section of Polynesians. They were ticked at her and yelled "IT'S LIAHONA!" I was right there with them.

The parade ended with a huge bunch of missionaries at the tail end. It was so neat.

It was definitely a great parade this year!

Hike to Cecret Lake

I know you are probably expecting pictures of England right now, but I had three posts that I needed to do before we left that didn't get done. If I don't do them now I will be seriously out of order and it will drive me batty. So, just be patient-but I have got to post these.

And I have a million nature pictures...

We woke up early and headed to Cecret Lake. Although we weren't as early as we would have liked to be, it was still good. The boys did so well with it and weren't grumpy at all.

The boys sure liked the rocks, because they wanted pictures of all of them.

There is always this little pile of snow on our hike.

Of course Lincoln climbed all over the joint (as did they all).

McKay was a little champ as always. He just fell asleep in the backpack on the way up, was up and smiley while we were at the lake and fell asleep on the way down.

When we got up there we ate the traditional nectarines and bagels. We fed the chipmunks and climbed all over the rocks.

McKay was in heaven with his own bagel.

Okay there really is something in this picture. There were newts in the water (at least a lady told us they were newts and we didn't know what they were so we are going with that).

Lincoln and Hunter had the worst bed head, but I couldn't bring myself to comb it out. Boys SHOULD have bed head on an early morning hike.

There was a hole in the rock perfect for little boys.

I love the boys following Josh like little ducks.

On the way down we had a snowball fight with the little snow pile.

Might of been the highlight of the hike.