Rodeo Saturday

We started our Saturday by heading down to the Dixie Round up Rodeo breakfast which was a fund raiser for the school foundation and all the local PTA's could benefit too.

Haleigh and Mya riding the train. Mya loved it and didn't want to get out after it was over.
There were some fun carnival games, including one with fish as prizes. Lucky us! The girls all won a fish! Their names are Rodeo, and Sushi (unfortunalty Rodeo was dead and floating by the time we got home from the rodeo at 11pm)

Haleigh and McKenna's school pre-sold the most tickets to the rodeo breakfast so their school got a visit from the Bat mobile. It was down at the breakfast so here they are with Batman and R0bin.
The petting zoo. Mya was SO excited that Donkey was there (from Shrek)! :)

Colleen had to go out to the BSA 100 year anniversary celebration to register cub scouts (which was where Daniel and Michael were all day with all the scouts... unfortunatly it sucked so bad it's not even worth blogging about) So after doing some chores when we got home from the breakfast we went with Julie to Jen and Jimmy's pool, then came home and the girls and I went to the rodeo. The bronc riding was really good, and the bulls won in the bull riding. Both the girls wore their cowboy boots (Mya wore Michael's old ones and Haleigh wore my old ropers) it made me miss growing up in Wyoming with real cowboys.

Finally, a hike!

I can't believe I'm saying this, but we haven't been on a hike ALL summer. Last weekend we drove out to Zions with Jimmy, Jen, Ju, and Daniel's buddy Carson to hike Keyhole only to find out they were only giving out 20 permits, instead of the usual 60-80, due to the constuction going on past the tunnel. Pinecreek is completely closed. The video for express permits had changed so we watched that, again. And got signed up for that, so at least we can by-pass the backcountry desk for the next 3 years now. So we came home with a little tour of a ghost town out there called Grafton. Then Jen and I made it down to the Dixie Center for the preparedness expo. Which wasn't totally enlightening, but interesting. And they had a presentation by some Dr.'s who went to help in Haiti after the earthquake that was really good.

So Carson had his mind SET on going on a hike with Daniel and kept calling him to take him. So they planned on Friday to do Birch Hallow. Daniel wanted me to go, but I had too much to do and told Daniel if he got a babysitter for Mya all day that I'd be more than happy to go. Well... that didn't happen. :) But Daniel and Carson and Kirt went and had a great time. We might try and squeeze it in in 3 weeks when we have an open Saturday again. We'll see.

I really do need to go though, these are the only 2 pictures out of about 20 that turned out. :)

Millions of peaches

The church orchard was opened today for gleaning peaches. They had already harvested over a million pounds to can for the church! Each family was allowed 200 lbs. So me Jen and Ju took Taylor and Michael and got 600 lbs. I put up about 27 quarts and made jam and peach leather, then froze a bunch. Took some to all the neighbors and sent a couple boxes North to mom and dad because Tom and Deanna where visiting for the weekend. It sure was fun! What a blessing!