4th of July weekend

We started out the weekend by heading out to Colby's parents house to go camping. We got out there Friday night and shortly after his sister Kira and her family came up for a surprise weekend visit. We all roasted hot dogs and the kids were off playing. There was of course horse riding and 4 wheeler rides and lots of chatting. We set up the tent and camped out in the yard. We even had Keenan sleep in the tent with us. Everyone did well except Noah wanted to go inside around 1 in the morning because he was to cold. Lets say neither one of us slept well that night.


On Saturday we got up and had a great breakfast and Colby and his dad went hunting. After they got back we set up the brickets and hung a turkey in them to cook. We had more 4 wheeler rides and then just our family went on a horse back ride together. Dinner ended up being really yummy but the bag and burned in one spot so we grilled the Turkey an hour. We had a big dinner and it was fun to have Turkey other then on Thanksgiving. After dinner we packed up and headed home for the night and church the next day.
Sunday we just hung out at home and relaxed.
Monday we were up early and headed out for the annual 4th of July parade. It was so much fun. We got ice cream bars and lots of candy. Almost all the Grand kids were in the parade. Even Grandma and Grandpa McGary were in it. Tamlee drove the van with all the kids while they threw candy and Scot road his dirt bike around with Tyson and his boys on there dirt bikes. It was so fun to see everyone riding around. Even Alise a few weeks from having her baby was riding a mini dirt bike. It was a sight to see!
















After the parade we had lunch were the kids played with water balloons and some of us adults got in on the fun and then we headed out to the lake for boating and playing the sun and water. I stayed on the shore with LaiLauna and we played in the water. The boys and Colby went on the boat and road around for about an hour and a half. By the time we left our kids were so tired they all fell asleep in the car and stayed asleep even when we got home. We had plans to go have dinner at a friends house with some others from our ward but our kids were just to tired. So after a little while we made last minute plans with another family the Griffith's who didn't have plans and we got together for a bbq and then we played games and were off to see the fireworks. All in all we were tired from a great weekend and we loved every minute of it:)