Pioneer Day

We had a Pioneer Day party at church. We all dressed up as pioneers and had lots of fun!

We even built a covered wagon from scratch. We don’t have a real wagon or anything we could use to start with…so when I mentioned that the kids could build wagons for the party Alex said we could make one out of cardboard. I thought that sounded rather hard, but Alex for course was perfectly confident it would work fine. And he was definitely right!

All he had to buy was the dowel. Alex made the base from a Costco box, more cardboard, hot glue, wood, etc. Alex had the great idea to put Woody in the wagon! Genius :) That took it to a whole other level of awesomeness!

I found white fabric that was part of an unused dust ruffle to use for the cover. We attached it with double stick tape along the sides, and then I sewed it down around the front and back openings.

I added little blankets and things inside to complete the look.

It turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself :)

Here we are all dressed up. My Mom brought me a bunch of pioneer dress up things she had from years ago, and we have some hats we’ve collected over the years…so we managed to dress up pretty well! It’s quite a coincidence that so much of our outfits are red. It worked out really well.

At the party:

Our wagon was the smallest…but it sure was cute.

Tyler liked to pull it around.

The wagon was quite popular with the little kids. That probably had something to do with “Woody” driving it.

It was fun to see the different wagons people made. This one was really big. Tyler could have ridden in it no problem.

There were lots of cool decorations at the party. Check out this neat “fire.”

A day at the Lake

A couple weeks ago we went to Patagonia Lake again…this time minus the camping.

It was very nice and we had an especially great time because my family was visiting!

The water level of the lake has gone down a lot since we were there in April. At first I thought it was very odd how shallow the lake seemed, until I realized this.

The kids loved the water and playing in the sand.

The grown-ups had a great time too. Here’s my brothers and dad swimming across the lake.

All the “big boys” swam across the lake and climbed around/jumped off the rocks on the other side.

I hardly took any pictures that week (other than at the lake), but here’s a cute one of the boys with Uncle Jeremy :)

Random stuff from June and July

Super brothers!

Tasty pears.

 

Tyler loves granola lately.

Here are some of the onions we grew. We got about 60!

Adam with a giant onion, and Tyler with two tiny onions. Tyler liked the “baby” onions.

And later that same night Tyler got into mischief with lotion. Alex had to take a picture :)