::lvd::

This past weekend was a little celebration in Matt's home town.

There are activities all week (golf tournament, service project, beauty pageant, etc.)

We participated in a few of the Saturday activities..

First was the Dam Race

4.7 miles around this little beauty...

...see the lake way out there? We ran around that. Such a pretty dam run!!

my dam shirt

a few of our little fans

our dam start

Papa's dam finish

our dam after picture

Papa's time: 37:30 (WOW!!)

Mine: 56.33

Grandma's: about 5 minutes after mine-not sure of her "official" time


After the race, we went to the parade.

It's a teeny town, so the parade is teeny too. They throw candy for the kids and it's just fun.

cute little cousins :)

waiting for it


oh! the candy!! (this is Port's pile)

watchin'

watchin'

After the parade, we went swimming

Matt was working on his parents' shed all day (I'll add a pic of that later)

To end the day, we watched some fireworks.

the kids LOVE ridin' our fourwheeler (they took this down to the fireworks)

most our our group

Coopie at the fireworks (he fell asleep later)

some glowsticks (of course)

Chloe and Keely ;) Aren't they pretty little cousins??

the fireworks

those red dots are the men lighting the fireworks just across the street. It's SO fun watching the fireworks up there 'cause we can be so close. They're so LOUD & so HUGE!

Fun, BUSY weekend. One of our favorite Summer traditions. Glad we got to go. Glad we got to see everyone :)

::oh, Porter::

This is what you get to wear.......

....when you pee on your shirt.

(how did he pee on his shirt?? I still don't know. He only got it on his shirt, no where else--this is part of the nervousness I felt when he became self-sufficient in the bathroom-- So all I had in the bag was one of Coopie's shirts. Do you think it's too little?? Only by about 4 sizes!!)

::twin falls::

We took our annual golf trip to Twin Falls, ID this weekend. I love this trip. Not too sure why, but something about it is just fun.

We went to the driving range...

the menses (Matt, Jared, & Adam)

...and the girlses (me, Sarah, & Krystal)

We all went out to eat together.

a guy at Chili's was making balloon shapes...

Chloe got a flower...

...and Portie and Matt got swords!


While the guys were golfin' us girls got to go do some fun stuff...

We went to "hip-hop-anonymous" (haha)

...we also saw Ice Age 3 up there. No pictures of that, but it was pretty fun. Cute movie.

We swam a lot!






On Saturday night, we went out to the Shoshone Falls.

we took (kind of) a picnic dinner...

...and went down to see the falls.

aren't they beautiful?? (click on this picture)

Then today (Sunday), our last day there, Sarah and I went sightseeing while Matt and J got in one last round of golf.

this is the bridge into Twin Falls.

looking towards the golf course from under the bridge (the course is in the bottom of this canyon)

Coming up out of the canyon, there's a lone little waterfall. We got out of the car and walked down next to and behind it. It was SO cool! I've never been that close to a waterfall. I loved the sound of it. Everything around it was green and wet and cool.

looking through the waterfall at the golf course.

Then we headed home.

Fun trip. Glad we went. Fun to hang with everyone and spend some time together :)