Pioneer Day

Yesterday was the 24th of July which is also Pioneer Day in Utah.  It is also my sister Wendy's birthday - lucky gal.  We went over to my parents yesterday and spent most of the day hanging out with family.  My sister, Julie, got out her slip'n slide and a bunch of us had a good time sliding around on the grass.  Julie, my mom, and I even had some fun getting all wet.  Who says that those things are just for kids?  Not us.

We had a yummy BBQ and then Julie, Tony, and I took the kids for a walk around the block.  We took Tyler's bike so he enjoyed riding it along with the big kids.  After that we set off a ton of parachutes and gave the kids some snaps.  Always enjoyable things to do while you wait for it to get dark.  Josh took a late nap so he even got to enjoy the fireworks this time.  Tyler spent most of his time playing with the old parachute cases with a couple other kids.  I don't think that he even watched any of the actual fireworks.  Kids are so funny.  It was a fun day of hanging out with the family.

My sister Wendy and her family headed back to California today.  It is really sad to see them go and to see this past week go too.  We had the whole week of having Tony with us that it will be hard to see him go back to work tomorrow.  Such is life, and it has been a
good one!