Heritage Days and stuff.

Heritage Days is Cardston's yearly town celebration. Ryan plays in the family ball tournament which is always fun to watch. The boys loved watching him this year and are excited to play in the Spring. We had an Olsen family reunion the same weekend so we were back and forth from that and the town celebrations. I'll be honest, we were mostly at the reunion when it was time to eat:) Its always nice when you don't have to cook or do the clean up. It was nice visiting with family we don't see often too. The parade was really good this year too. They throw the best candy and the kids got lots of it. I'll admit. I am the parade nazi. I have some serious thoughts on parade etiquette and wonder why everyone else doesn't have the same common sense. Like #1: kids, please stay in front of your spot and your spot only. I hate it when kids are running in front of where we are sitting to get the candy. It is just rude. I can't go the whole parade without having to tell some kids to stay in front of their parents. It just annoys me. Also, why do they have to stand way up almost to the middle of the road just waiting like little vultures for the candy. It is so annoying. Just sit back by the curb, and wait your little turn. Those guys can throw candy good. It will make it to your spot where your sitting. It just blocks the view for the rest of us who are sitting at the curb waiting and trying to enjoy the parade. And then you get those people who don't even have a spot to sit. They just wander aimlessly up and down the road collecting candy. Anyway, I should stop now. But see, parade nazi. We went to the fireworks this year too. We put H to sleep and then took the three older kids to see them. Its only our second year taking them so they were very excited. They were great. We were all pretty tired when we got home though. It was a really fun weekend.

I love this. Don't expect nice smiles when your making them face the sun:)

Waiting for the fireworks to start.

We met Britt and the girls at the Coaldale spray park one day. They have a nice little area with a little wading pool as well as the spray park and a playground and nice grass area. We spent a few hours there and had a lot of fun. Hayley loved the wading pool. She is such a little fish. We've seriously had beautiful weather this summer. Hardly any windy or rainy days. Perfection.

I wanted to get a good start on school supply shopping this year because I always seem to leave it to the last minute and then its even more stressful than it already is. Every year I despise it and always think I would pay extra money for someone else to go pick it up for me. After talking to other people I realized that most other schools do that. You just pay the money and they supply all the things the kids need. I'm going to have to find out why our school doesn't do that. It always seems like we have so much extra things on our list too, like headphones, oil pastels, a flash drive, and their own mini white boards.Its kinda ridiculous. We spent over $300 on school supplies this year and that doesn't even include school fees. A little annoying.

The weather has cooled down and we've had a few rainy days. I'm trying to get caught up on blogging and things around the house. We only have one more week until school starts. Its always sad when summer ends but is also exciting to get back to a routine and start a new chapter of our lives.