Weekend Visitors!

Gary, Sharlene, Glenn and the Lindhorst girls came up to celebrate the
24th of July, "Pioneer Days".


Clayton, Sierra & Maddy goofing off

St. Johns Pioneer Day Parade

MacKenzie, Daycee, Aarron and Adam waiting for the parade to start

Sydnee, Carson, Clayton, Sierra, MacKenzie and Maddy
watching the parade
Aarron and Daycee racing for the candy!

All the kids getting soaked from the fire truck
Carson & Sydnee

Harly

Halee

Daycee

This was a very fun weekend and we are sad to see them go.

I can't wait 'til the next time we're all together again.

"Fun In The Super HOT Summer Sun"

*UPDATE*
Andrea wanted me to add the picture of her going down the slide too!

Dayson and I had a couple of good reasons to leave the nice, cool country and go to the
117 degree heat.
1st Dayson had a couple of windshields to replace, 2nd I had a doctor appointment and 3rd Rachelle, Dayson's little sis, went thru the temple for the first time.

This is all of Dayson's family who attended the endowment session minus Satya.I always knew that I was taller than Dayson!

The only way we survived the heat was swimming.

My mom's bestfriend Jan lives down the street and that's where we spent a lot of our time.

The boys decided to push me in the pool.

I knew exactly what they were planning when Clayton asked for my camera and Carson was walking behind the palm tree. I wasn't going in without a fight or Carson.

Dayson making his way down the slide

MacKenzie loving everybit of the pool as long as she had floaties and the side to hold on to.



Daycee having a great time

Aarron jumped right in without blinking. This was his first time to swim all by himself. He loved every minute of it and actually jumped in without his floaties and surpised us by dog paddling to the side. That was a scary moment for Dayson and I.


Everyone had a turn on the water slide, even if they didn't want one.
Adam was scared to death, but being the mean parents that we are made him go down the slide.



Aarron never hesitated

Dayson forced MacKenzie down the slide, she too wanted nothing to do with it.

Daycee loved every second of it

Courtney having a blast with her cousins

Jenna looks a little scared but she really loved it!

Hold your breath Harly

Carson going face first

Clayton going face first too

What do you do when your hot and melting?

Eat ice cream cones from McDonald's!

Clayton
Carson

Harly

Daycee

MacKenzie

Aarron

Adam

Even though we almost died from the heat we had a great time with family.

Clayton and Carson spent time with Dallin & Wyatt

Harly, Daycee and Kenzie spent time with Aunt Rachelle, Aunt Angelene, and their girl cousins including Delona's girls from Oregon.

Adam & Aarron got to spend the night with Grandma & Grandpa Merrill

Thank you to everyone who helped us out with our kids.

ROAD TRIP!

The day before we left for Idaho we had visitors from Waddell.

The Kelly family came over after the parade and this is a picture of the old Waddell Ward primary.

Inman kids, Archdeacon kids, Kelly kids and the Merrill kids with a few missing.

Sunday morning we left Springerville at 7:00 am and headed north to Idaho.

Everyone included were Kelly, Tatum, Rylee, Deanna, Gunner, Me, Harly, Daycee and MacKenzie

Our first stop, Shiprock, New Mexico to eat lunch at Taco Bell





We didn't get to Idaho until 1:30 am (Idaho time) the next morning.

Towards the last 3 hours everyone was a little dillusional and wanted to escape the suburban.

Our first tour of Emmett, Idaho.

Kelly drove us to her property were she has an awesome garden.

We took the back way out of Emmett and up this mountain and this is the view from on top.

Such a cute town, like the one you see in a movie.

Our second day there we took the kids swimming at the local pool and they had a great time.

Wednesday afternoon we drove to Middleton where my sister Becky lives and uncle Jeremy watched all the kids while us sisters went out to eat.

Saying goodbye. We left to go home on Thursday morning.

Harly & Rylee

Tatum, Rylee & Harly

Deanna & Daycee

Gunner & Kenzie wouldn't take a picture together.

This is me trying to take a picture with Kelly but she didn't want anything to do with it because she hadn't been feeling good.

After leaving Idaho we made our first stop in Trementon, Utah for happy meals.

After being in the car for so long it was nice to get out and play.

Next stop, Temple Square.

We made it to the top of the church office building just before it closed.

We made our way to the North Visitor Center and this is the girls watching a short video.

We stopped in at the Tabernacle just in time to hear the pin drop.

It was decorated for the 4th of July and looked gorgeous inside.

And finally we went to the South Visitor Center and took our picture with Jesus. This is what MacKenzie was looking forward to the whole drive. She thought it was going to be the real Jesus and wanted to give him a hug.

After our Temple Square adventure was over we drove to Provo to meet Jamie, Jared and Nash at Applebee's.

This is Nash with a lemon. He is so cute.

Me & Nash

All the girls in their pajamas with Nash at Jamie's apartment.

We left Utah at 6:00 am (Az time) and headed home.

Our first stop was Moab.

We went to this tourist spot and got out to look around.

Harly loves elephants and was excited to take a picture with this giant one.

Daycee took a picture with grandpa Wellman. Just kidding, this is a golfer made out of golf clubs.

MacKenzie with the little elephant.

As we drove into Monticello, Utah we saw this temple my dad told us about and we stopped to take pictures. This was one of the first mini temples pres. Hinckley announced would be built.

This was such a cute town and real close to Blanding.

We finally made it home Friday evening around 5:30 pm

While in Idaho, we got word that my mom's uncle Darwin had passed away and that his funeral would be on Saturday. That is why I hurried home, to be there for the funeral.

My mom's brothers and sisters all came up for the funeral and this is my Uncle Melvin and Aunt Cindy who drove from El Paso, Texas. I haven't seen them in such a long time it was so much fun to visit with them.

My Grandma Slade is first cousins with uncle Darwin's wife, Aunt Ethel. That is how they met. It was good to have grandma and my mom back in Eagar again.