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Monday, June 24, 2013

Vacation to Washington Day 1 (by Becca)


 THIS IS A POST BY BECCA. BECCA IS HIGHLY AWESOME SO THIS POST MAY BE A LITTLE MORE AMAZING THAN USUAL. PLEASE DO NOT FREAK OUT, JUST GO VISIT BECCA'S BLOG FOR MORE AWESOMENESS.

Hi guys! In case you couldn't tell, this is a post by me. I have posted in the past, but today's post won't be like that.

It'll be really serious.

Hardcore.
 
Sort of like this cookie.

Except for that cookie is filled with sprinkles, which belongs up there with all that froofy stuff like unicorns.

Anyways, let's get to the vacation.

We went to Washington. I brought my camera and was an amazing photographer. Sort of. We'll start with Day 1

We started out by going to Steadmonds farm. It's this awesome little place. There's a guy who has lots of land and slip'n'slides and let's anyone use it as long as they call ahead.

The Slip n' slide was fun.
It was sort of cold, so we wore our jackets when we went down.
Sort of weird, but we didn't get too wet, so it worked.
Actually, me and Emily got wet. Our tube flipped over and we went sliding down clinging to each other with me shrieking "Don't let my jacket get wet! Don't let it get wet! My jacket!"

To warm up we spent some time playing in the sandbox.




Steadmans also had a playhouse.
Lyssa wanted to go in it. I got confused about what she was talking about, and told her that was the bathroom. So for the rest of the morning she really wanted to go to the bathroom.

They also had a zipline.
My dad went first and then he tricked conviced me into going too.
He had to help me up
So he wasn't there to catch me at the bottom.
All in all Steadman's was pretty fun.
By the way, I took all these pictures. Except for the zipline ones.

Next, we went to Shoshone Falls. It was cool.
Isn't that rainbow pretty?

It was really big too.


Really fun to look at, and the sound was really loud.
Alyssa was a little camera shy.

Next we went to my dad's old secretary's house. Her name is Nancy. She lives past Happy Valley Road (lots of chuckles when we passed it). She smiles alot.
And I caught it on camera!

Stay tuned for part 2!

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Independence Day

4th of July week was pretty eventful at our house this year.  Jared took the whole week off and we had a ton of good times celebrating with family who came up to visit.  
We made homemade root beer for the first time and the kids were fascinated by the fog....delicious!

Alyssa in her patriotic outfit

Jared took the kids on some rides in the backyard.










We have a great view of the fireworks right by our house - I love that we don't have to wait in any slow traffic lines to see them!

 The next day we had a picnic at the park and the kids had a great time playing on the playground.  Daniel was spinning on the tire swing a bit too long and felt and Jacob is imitating how he felt a few minutes before in this picture :(














That evening the big kids & adults went 4-wheeling thanks to our generous neighbor.  Grandpa Neal and I stayed behind to watch the little ones.


The kids and their cousins had fun riding horses (thanks again to our awesome neighbor!)





It was a memorable week and we had so much fun hanging out with our cousins, aunts and uncles from AZ.