July

I am finally finding the time to catch up a little on our blog. It has been a crazy summer followed by an even more crazy school year, so here's our July in a nutshell.
Devon and I were both really sick for the fourth (who gets the flu in July?)  so we canceled our trip to St. George and just went to Blanding for the parade.  They had lots of trucks that sprayed water, but we were by people who did not want to get wet, so we stayed dry. 

After the parade we went to the park to check out the booths, but it was really hot and all of the food booths had crazy long lines, so we went to the bakery for lunch.  We ate cinnamon rolls and lemon bars and it was really yummy and we were the only ones there. At the park we bought one thing, paper fans for the boys that broke within about 1 hour of purchase.

Spencer had been wanting to make an apple bobbing thing, he must have seen it on some show, so we told him he could on the 4th of July.  He and Daniel and Samantha thought it was pretty fun, James and Christy just picked up their apples.

Devon thought it would be fun to set off a smoke bomb in my tupperware bowl.  It did look cool, but now I don't have a tupperware bowl.  We did fireworks in the evening and then went to the Gouldings fireworks (which lasted surprizingly long) and sat on the car to watch.  It was a fun 4th even without a trip.
We actually went to St George the next week to visit our friends.  We had a great time playing in their pool and mostly just hanging out.  Spencer was especially daring in the pool and had to be rescued twice when he over estimated his skills, but otherwise it was a great time.
Sometime in July Carrie discovered her toes, they are still a favorite.  We love having Carrie around, she is such a happy baby and she brings a lot of peace and love to our home.

Toward the end of July I met up with my sister and her husband's family on a house boat on Lake Powell.  Spencer loved the tube and the Jet skiis and even tried water skiing.  James was happy to just throw rocks in the lake, and Carrie did not like being confined to a life jacket, but she was happy once we got on the boat.
On their way back they stopped by our house.  My parents were on their way through to Texas too, so we has quite a party.

Spencer (and Devon) showed them all the sites and James loved having Ruby to play with.

While the Dicksons were here Spencer started building a hogan. He worked on it for hours every day, even when I tried to explain that we would be moving soon. This is as big as the hogan got, then we moved.  Also, my boys think they match if they are wearing the same color, and we didn't go anywhere special that day.

Don't we live in a lovely place?