4th of July!

We decided to try out our trailer and take it camping for the 4th! We headed up to Clear Creek. The campgrounds were flooded, but we just went further up the road and camped. We definitely had fun. Each night we would drive around and look for deer. One night the deer were pretty far away so Justin had Mya sit on his lap and look through the binoculars. He asked her, "What do you see?" "Rocks." So as he moved it down a little she yells out "Oh, I see an animal!" It was cute. Sunday we went to City of Rocks. It was cool to see. We stopped at the visitor center in Almo, Idaho and let the kids pick somthing out. Mya picked out a t-shirt and Parker picked out a marmot stuffed animal! We tried to sway him to other cuter stuffed animals, but that's what he wanted and anything else he would just throw as he held onto his marmot. It was funny and Justin and I were surprised they would even make a Yellow-bellied Marmot!

The trailer isn't finished yet, but the outside was done and I cleaned the inside. Hopefully next year we'll be able to finish the inside!

This trip was a little rough on Parker, though! He fell so many times. One time out of the trailer, another time just into some weeds, but he had an allergic reaction to the weeds where he smashed his face into them, plus he just fell a couple of other times, too! But overall, we had a lot of fun and were glad to get away as a family!

Parker's Blessing

The 4th of July was very memorable this year. The entire weekend I was busy getting things ready for Parker's blessing. But I really wanted to make sure we took Mya to fireworks Saturday night. Of course, I forgot my camera for the fireworks, but Mya is so fun to watch fireworks with! She got so excited with every firework and would shout out either Whoa, Wow, Ooh, That one almost scared me a little bit, or Oh wow, that was a big one! So cute! We went to Hooper's fireworks and there were actually no mosquitos because there was a breeze. But I was really glad we made sure between all of the busyness that we went to those. Before fireworks, Justin took Mya to our friend's house for a barbeque and she loved it. I had planned on going, but everything was taking twice as long as planned that day.

So on the 4th we blessed Parker. The day couldn't have gone better. Everything went really smooth that morning and sacrament meeting was so great. I of course cried. There's something about blessing your baby...the spirit is so strong! Then after people came over and we had a breakfast. We had cinnamon rolls, doughnuts, muffins, banana bread, cake, breakfast bakes (which, I'm putting the recipe on the side of my blog since I've had a lot of requests), fruit and lots of chocolate milk, orange juice, and milk. All of the food was yummy. I loved Parker's outfit. Such a stud! It really ended up being such a nice 4th of July weekend.