Pioneer Day for the Maynes Family

We had a nice little 24th of July this year. Nate of course didn't have the day off, so he was at work until 3:00 :( and we missed him, but it was nice to at least have the rest of the day with him. It started out with a little breakfast with my family. It was nice. The night before we had received a bag of scone dough from one of the ladies cleaning up her booth at the Handcart Days. I was all happy to have scone dough, and thought that would be perfect for our breakfast. It would have been had it been better dough. I think it may have just been old, and risen in the fridge too much.... I don't know, but it was not cooking the way that I am used to cooking scones. It wouldn't turn brown!! Anyway. We had a good time playing in the sprinklers, and just hanging out in Grandpa Mottishaw's backyard with everyone. The kids had a blast with Brent and Sarah and Charlie and Heidi as usual.


Here's Brad sitting on his chair over the sprinkler..... it was more exciting than it looks :)

Kelly made good use of the grass making pretend soups and horse food and such.... she was a cutie. She, Charity, Sarah, my mom, and Heidi all played "Down By The Banks" for a good hour that morning. That was a lot of fun! I was holding a sleeping Noah so no pictures....

my brother and his son Charlie

I just put this on here because I have about a million like it :) He always wants my camera.... but he's still saying cheese too :)

I took this because Bradley was totally playing with Charlie. It was a cute little boy cousin moment. I liked it.

This is funny. This one and the one following are within the same minute..... in this one he's smiling..... and in this one......

he's not. This is his "MOOOOOM stop taking pictures and let me cuddle up and take a nap!!" look.

So after the breakfast we went and picked up Nate from work. We had planned on going to the carnival one more time to use up our last tickets and I wasn't in the mood to take everyone myself, so we waited until Nate got home.

The kids all went on a few more rides. And then we got some snowcones. It was SO HOT!!! It's been fun to actually do some of the things at the carnivals this year. We've never really spent money at these places. It's interesting to see how spoiled your kids can get after a little of it though :) We had to have a few talks about being grateful :) They learned and did such a good job of saying thankyou, and just being happy with what they got. They were really good to stay together too.

One thing I thought was interesting with our kids was that as we were walking over to the rides Kelly and Charity would say something they wanted to go on, and then the boys would automatically want to do that as well. And at one point they all wanted to go on the Shark Slide. So we started walking over there and on the way over they saw a little bounce house and with Charity's persuasion Kelly and Brad and she changed their minds and said they wanted to go in the bounce house. I assumed Luke would change his mind as well, but nope. He was set on the Shark Slide. And even after watching them for a few minutes in the bounce house, having fun and everything, he was not going to budge and change his mind. I love that he is himself. I walked him over to the Shark Slide and he had a blast going down it all by himself :) Which is funny because my other kids wouldn't enjoy it as much without each other :) Funny how different kids are.

After the carnival we drove on up to Nate's parents house for the Maynes family party. We were really excited about this because we were going to be at one of the lakes in Daybreak. When we got there the kids all played in the water for a few minutes. Noah was hilarious! He just loved it!! I'm still trying to figure out why it was so easy for him to run out into the lake when he's almost deathly afraid of our little wading pool now..... oh well. He had fun.

we had a nice relaxing time (well, I did :) Nate spent most of the time driving kids to the bathroom. The only downside to this spot was the lack of toilets.). But it was fun hanging out with everyone. The kids all went off and played a fun I Spy game that took them all over the area.... they were gone for a while! Noah got completely spoiled with attention from his cousins the entire time! Ashlyn was his little buddy, that was fun. The kids all ran around playing on the rocks and the stream. It was really nice. Such a beautiful spot to have a picnic. The clouds came too, so it was a really nice breezy time.