Free Food

It's that time of season, free food.  Chick-fil-A offers a free meal if you dress as a cow and 7-11 offers free slurpees on 7-11.  It's become a little tradition with the family.  My kids are good sports and let me take some pictures.  There were some sister missionaries that got in the spirit and went dressed as cows for their lunch.   Here are the pics that I took this year.

My cute cows

Slurpees- they are kinda small

Memorable MondayPrevious 4th of Julys

I was making these collages to show Danni what each Fourth of July was looked like and what patriotic shirts we wore.  Patriotic outfits have been a huge part of the holiday.  Danni has been helping me the past few years picking out shirts for us.  It's been fun to plan with her.

2017 - Mesa

2016 - Mesa

2015 - Mesa

2014 - Mesa

2013 - Mesa

2012 - Mesa

2011 - Benson

2010 - Mesa

2009 - Mesa

2008 - Mesa

2007 - SLC

2006 - Mesa

2005 - Mesa

2004 - Mesa

2003 - Mesa

2002 - Benson

2001 - Mesa

2000 - Benson

1997 - Mesa

I'm missing the year 1998 and 1999.  I'm not sure if I took pics on those days or not.  It's fun to look back and see how much my kiddos grew over the years.

4th of July TripBirthday Trip

We headed up to Show Low for the 4th of July.  I panned a little hike for the family.  I called it a stroll because that's what it looked like on a ma.  It was much more than a stroll, but not really a hike.  I t was a beautiful hike but we made it short.  It was fun hike and I enjoyed my kids teasing me about my stroll.  

Stroll Pics

Chairs around Show Low

The next day, we went to the parade.  In Show Low, the people had put their chairs on the ground to reserve their spot, but living in Mesa I've learned that we don't leave chairs unattended if we want to keep them.  We found good enough seats to seats to watch the parade.  The parade was cool at time, but other times we just waited for participants to come.  After an hour, we went to have my birthday for breakfast.  The restaurants was at the end of the parade route, so we could see some of the parade entries we missed.  I noticed that the parade ended just  as we finished our breakfast. After the parade was over, we met up with Loren and Brittney at Fool's Hollow.  We had a lot of fun playing in and around the lake.  We rented a canoe and a kayak.  Angela wanted a turn to have the kayak by herself.  She did well on the kayak and I'm so proud of her.  Show Low didn't have fireworks because of the fire restrictions, so we just watched a Marvel movie at Danni's house.  We headed home the next day after we played a round of UNO and jumped in the rain.

Fourth of July shirts

Brigham and Danni

Parade Pics

Birthday Breakfast

Pic wit Britt, Junior, and Baby Jay

Playing in the water

Spending time with family is what the 4th is about

UNO and rain - what a way to end this trip

50th Wedding Anniversary

My parents are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary today. In April, we have a big family reunion to celebrate this milestone as a family. Congrats!!!!

Rim Country

Grandma and Grandpa Pace headed up north to go camping.  We headed up for part of the day so Josh could be home for work.  We played several games while we were up there - Scattergories and UNO.  The big UNO cards were a hit!!  Brandon brought some mustaches and we had a blast wearing them.  It was the highlight of the trip. Uncle David and Aunt MaryAnn came just a little after we did and stayed for the day as well.   Jim cooked his famous chili for lunch and it was a hit too.  I love that there are no tomatoes.  It was nice to be in the cooler weather even if we spent most of the time dodging the sun.  We were constantly finding and moving into the shade.  Emily stayed behind with Grandma and Grandpa Pace and camped a couple of extra nights.  

Josh, Ang, and Em

Josh loved being with the puppy.
The feeling was mutual

Ang had a blast

Emmy held the puppy too

when she wasn't sleeping

Kids and their mustaches

Josh and Jim

Ang and I

Grandpa even joined the fun

Jim and I
His mustache is the best

Jim cooking his chilli

Emmy and her tent

Emmy came home with this cool project that she did up north

Feed My Starving Children

We went with Pace Family and helped with "Feed My Starving Children" again.  It was a lot of fun to serve as a family.  I really appreciate Kathryn for setting this service project up.  It really makes you appreciate how lucky we are to have food in our cupboards.  If there is no food in the cupboards, we can just go the store to buy some.  A lot of people in 3rd world countries don't have that luxury.  Food is hard to come by.  We are truly lucky and we should do all that we can to help others.  "Feed My Starving Children is a great place to learn about those needing assistance and providing service too.  There are so many other ways to provide service, but Feed My Starving Children educates as well as making the service a lot of fun.  It's just a great way to spend an evening - serving with family.

Jenna’s Baby Shower

Jenna had her baby shower and it was super cute.  The Turleys did such a great job decorating with the Little Man theme.  It was first time that we saw Kaylynn, Danni, and Jenna pregnant at the same time. They were sweet to do a photo shoot for me. Jenna got a lot of cute baby clothes and baby blankets.  She even announced at the shower that they were going to name their baby, Jordan.  I love that name.  Now the Beecrofts all start with the letter J. 

Turleys and Decor

Kaylynn Danni, and Jeanna