July

July started off with Hailee heading to Logan for Grandparents weekend. Her and Dustin had a wonderful time as usual.
While she was gone, the rest of us had our own good time at the Nephi City Park July 4th celebration. Heath and I played in a Volleyball tournament in the morning. Then we had fun taking Spencer and Alyssa to play some carnival games. Spencer LOVED having all the attention on him. He tried the bounce houses, carnival games, jail rides, train rides. We had lunch at the park and watched some of talent show. Then we went home for naps and planned to go back for dinner. Turns out dinner was more of a to-go affair. Everything was cleaned up and you could eat your dinner at the park if you wanted, but otherwise it was handed to you in a plastic sac!

We picked Hailee up at Jeremy's house on the 4th. We got there in the morning so we could watch the parade that passed right in front-it made for some great seats. Alyssa loved the candy and had three or four otter pops! At lunch we went over to Uncle Jerry's for a pool party with the Hall family. Hailee found a life jacket (and had just gotten done with swimming lessons the week before) and was in heaven floating around the pool with all the cousins. Spencer was a little nervous (he did NOT like swimming lessons) and just stayed at the edge with me. Alyssa enjoyed the stair for a bit as well. I think Hailee was the only one too busy swimming to enjoy all the food, but we sure did. There is always plenty and it was all good!
After swimming we went back to Jeremy's for dutch oven dinner and fireworks. The city firework are close to his house, so he has a great view from the backyard. Pretty nice to enjoy it all from home!








On the 16th we went to the Ute Stampede. I have never been to a rodeo before, and this one is a BIG DEAL around here. Alyssa didn't come and the kids lost interest pretty quick. I missed some of the best parts because I had to take the kids for bathroom breaks, but it was fun to finally go to a rodeo-it's funny that I've never been since the Strawberry Days rodeo was every year and close to my house, but it was worth the wait-I had a great time!

Over the 24th we went to Vernal and Roosevelt for the Allred reunion. We met at Grandma Great's to help clean up her house and yard a little. Then we drove over to Vernal to check into our hotel along with G-ma, G-pa, Nathan, Jeremy, Taryn, Dustin and Laney. We all went swimming-Yay! Then got changed and drove over to Altamont for a small town RODEO! It was lots of fun. Very different from the Ute Stampede the week before, but with cousins around our kids lasted a bit longer. My favorite part was the cowhide racing. They had kids jump on a piece of conveyor belt (cowhide) and get pulled really fast through the dirt by a horse! We still didn't stay till the end, it just kept going and going and going! We left just after 9 and headed back to Vernal where we watched a 'show' then went to bed!
The next day we headed to the dinosaur museum, visited at Clark's house then drove to Whiterocks for a hot dog roast at our favorite campground. It was lots of driving around the basin, but it was a fun reunion and good to see all the family.

The next weekend the kids and I met up with Alisha, Sydney, Mom, Kellee, Jenny and Emily and drove to Boise for Makayla's baptism and Amryn and Malia's baby blessings.
We played with Becca's kids and couldn't get enough of it! Once again we stayed in a motel and went swimming and watched shows-I think my kids are getting addicted! It was fun to have all the sisters together and I felt like the weekend went by much too fast!