the 24th

we had a great day yesterday for pioneer day! We went down to Spanish Fork for the parade it was fun! Before we left for the parade alex said he wanted to play the drums in the parade! ;) Alex had a lot of fun running out and collecting candy! Paige really got into it she was waving and clapping and pointing and telling everyone about it! She took candy to anyone who would open it for her! Both kids were very sticky by the end of the parade! They had so much fun! Then we went to macey's to get out of the heat for a while and at the front of the store they had the float that was in the parade and Alex really thought that was cool! Then we went to my Aunt Paula's house and had a BBQ! It was really yummy, they had homemade root beer! Then we started to make our way home! We decided to stop at Cabella's on the way home! Both the kids really liked it they had a lot of fun looking at everything! Paige even found herself a little friend! When we got back to tooele we went to the children's parade two of our nephew's were playing in the tooele jr. band! They sounded really good! After the parade they have some fun stuff to do at the park! We only did one of the activities because the lines we so long! Then we came home and and we did some fireworks just the ground flowers and some sparklers and the little poppers paige really liked the sparklers and alex liked it all but he wanted some bigger ones! oh well! It was a really fun day! But we forgot to get batteries for our camera so no pictures!:(

update

wow a lot has happened since this month we have been so busy! At the first of the month we went to the dinosaur park in Ogden and then went camping up at Anderson cove and had a family reunion up there! That was all one trip and it was a lot of fun! At the dinosaur park alex was afraid of the mechanical dinosaurs even after i told him they were just like a remote control car he didn't want any of us getting close to them! He screamed when i was making him get close to see them! He didn't even like the little baby ones! He like the dinosaurs that were out side that didn't move though! On the fourth of july brett had to work but i took the kids over to the benson mill for our stakes annual community pancake breakfast! They ussually fo a little children's parade but we didn't make it in time for that! Then when brett got home we went up to Hollie's house for a BBQ it was a lot of fun! After that we went to Brett's parents house and did a few fireworks and then had a rootbeer float! Brett's mom was watching Angies kids so Jacob and Alex had a lot of fun playing with each other! On our way home we stopped on the side of the road and watched the fireworks from desert peak but wemade the mistake of openeing the windows and let in a whole bunch a mosquitos! Which we then spent about half the firework show trying to kill! It was a really a fun day! The next thing in our adventurous month was my birthday! We took the kids to my parents house and we went to wingers for dinner! It was really yummy and it was a nice break from the kid's! Then we had inspection in which we had to clean our house from top to bottom! I don't think i have ever done spring cleaning in july until now! I hate inspections! The only thing happy that came out of inspection was i finally remembered where the "safe place" I put my wedding ring was!!! For some dumb reason i thought a box of notes from high school was a safe place! I should get a break though for this because i was pregnant when i put it there! Which is probably another reason why i thought that was a safe place and why i couldn't remember where it was! I now fully remember putting it there and i have no idea why i thought that was a safe place. Next thing we did was brett had a day with the kids and i got to hang out with my friends! It was a lot of fun we had a picnic at heritage park! Then we went to temple square and planned jessica's baby shower! Then we watched the Joseph Smith movie! then we went to drea's parents house and played apples to apples! I love that game it is so much fun! Then it was pretty late so we went home! i had a lot of fun! Next, Blake was in town so we went over to his parents house and had a BBQ and played soccer! It reminded me of when me and brett first knew each other because that's the kind of stuff we did and that's who we did it with and it was on the day we met 6 years ago it was awesome! On the 15th was brett's birthday we went out to applebee's for dinner! We had a gift card for there! It was okay but i don't think we will be going to applebee's anytime soon! Next in our outings we had my family's annual family camp which is actually the Clayson reunion which this year was the last year they were doing it! We are still going to do a family camp with my aunts and uncles and stuff but not with my mom's aunt's! alex went up on Sunday with my mom! We went up on Thursday and stay till Saturday! It was fun! until Paige got sick that was not fun it was gross! She threw up three times on Saturday! Then we went to our ward BBQ! I made a pasta salad! It was really yummy! then we rented a movie! We rented he's just not that into you! I didn't really care to much for it and it was done a lot differently than either brett or I expected! Oh and also this month brett had to teach the adult gospel doctrine class=) i don't know how well he did because I'm in primary so i wasn't able to see how well he did but from what he says things went really well! He taught twice! Well now here we are coming to the end of July and we are still not done yet! On thursday i go to the dentist- just for a check up! Then on friday is pioneer day and i think we are going to spanish fork! then on the 29th we are leaving to go down to capital reef for yet another family reunion! This will definatly be a july to remember!