Family Reunion Part I

We met up with my family the latter part of July for a family reunion. We spent some time in Wyoming, Bear Lake, and in the Salt Lake Valley!

We rolled into Pickleville, UT and shared a raspberry and a grasshopper shake (grasshoppers are a Keebler's cookie. We wouldn't eat grasshoppers. C'mon) while we waited to meet up with my family before we headed off to see a melodrama at the local theater:

The name of the melodrama was "Who Shot Juanito Bandito." I admit, I was a little skeptical at first, but it was pretty funny :)

Up in little-town Wyoming we saw a Pioneer Day parade:

And went wading in the freezing water of a little creek by my Uncle's home. It was so pretty! Cameron was fully dressed before this, but a car was coming down the dirt road and my bro in-law was warning the kids to watch out. Cameron panicked and flopped belly first into the huge creek puddle. So off came the clothes (and then everyone else's did too eventually--the kids' clothes, of course).

We also went to a rodeo! It was funny to watch the mutton-busters (little tiny kids trying to ride a sheep as long as they can without falling off). As for the rest of the rodeo, I kept saying to Brian and my Mom, "isn't this so mean? I'm thinking rodeos aren't my thing..." I felt so bad for the calves they roped up. It just looks so rough. Some of you from rodeo country may laugh, but I didn't grow up around that kind of thing! Anyway, here's Cameron and his cousin, Hyrum waiting at the fence for the "go ahead" to run to the middle of the field and catch a bunny. We didn't realize that if you did catch it, you "got to" to keep it! Good thing they weren't as fast as some of the other kids ;)  They had 2 bunnies in the middle of the corral and they actually didn't move a muscle. They just sat docile and let whoever was fastest come grab them up.

4th of July

So, I didn't take any pictures of Cameron's birthday (July 3rd). I was too stressed out, darn it. Wish I had just brought the camera and asked one of my helpful friends to take some for me. Oh well! What's past is past!

Anyway, here's what we did for the 4th of July which was lovely and relaxing. We took a leisurely walk at a nearby trail. It's my favorite one these days: flat, shady, and a cute little stream running throughout. Later on we watched the stadium fireworks from the field behind our apartment. Cam even got to stay up super late for it.

On the hike

Pretty "fows" as Liesel would say

Liesel wore her 4th of July tutu

And Cameron his safari-explorer duds he got from Gma Marsha for his birthday

playing in the little stream

And then we saw a deer

Cameron was nervous (he's asking me to hold his hand)

FH Children's Festival '11

I'm sorry it's been so long since I last posted. Here are the pictures from this year's Children's Festival for Family Housing. I didn't take any of these since I was working the Face Painting Station again. I think this is year .. 3 doing that booth..? Always fun and we found some great face painting crayons that work well (vs. the goopy paint years before).

Here's me and my friends-coworkers: (That's me on the far left. I have a red hand because I was showing my face painting partners that you can spread the paint out for a face background.)

This year we had a bounce house. A BIG hit.

And a photo booth with costumes! This is Cam and his friend Henry.

ahh! she's so cute! ...if I do say so myself. And I don't.  ;-)

And field games!

I painted Cam and Liesel's face. Here they are clapping to Sue Schnitzer's music performance at the end of the festival.

Cam and his friends tooting their kazoos.