Vacation-4th of July

We woke up later than most of the other Campbells because they went and ran in the Freedom Run 5K that started at 7am. So when we were waking up they were starting their race. We kept Sophie with us, and they took Bevy in a stroller on the 5K and Ashley (who is pregnant) went with Ylena in the Fun Run.

 Once we were ready we headed over to the parade route to meet up with the rest of the clan.

 The kiddos had a hard time waiting for the parade to start. Then they didn't even throw candy, so Rachel was a bit disappointed, since that was her whole reason for going to the parade. We watched for a while, then left early when we started to get too hot. We're parade wimps.

The rest of the family stayed for the whole thing.

 My cousin, Carrie, who is closest to me in age, didn't get to be up in Idaho while we were there, so she came over to talk for a little while and catch up. We also looked at our pictures from Idaho. It was fun to get to chat for a bit.

 Lena brought some dress ups along with her and Rachel was so happy she was willing to share.

 We had one last picnic outside (Annie loves picnics, so she was in heaven eating outside all week).

 Rachel and Lena were matchy-matchy.

 Since no one at the parade had thrown candy, Grandma and Grandpa picked up some taffy and threw it from the deck from the kids.

 We attempted to get all the grandkids together in their red shirts.

 By the end they were a little less than happy. :)

 But cheered up quickly.

Vacation-Wednesday

Wednesday morning Jacob and I snuck off to the Mt. Timpanogas Temple, since the Provo temple is closed for cleaning. It is much easier to be gone for 2 hours to the temple than 7 hours. While we were gone Grandma taught the kids how to play hopscotch.

 I got to hang with Bevy for a few minutes while mom did some laundry and dad got the chicken on the grill. She found this headband on the ground and wanted to look pretty. She's a cutie.

 The rest of the afternoon was mostly a repeat of Monday. Lots of fun and lots of water.

 Notice Ryan's big stick that he loved.

 Trying to warm the shivering Beverly up.

 But she just wanted to get back in the water.

 Sophie and Ryan's favorite place is on those stairs. They brought out the baby gate, which worked okay for Ryan, but Sophie said "Nice try! I can scale that!" And we looked over to see her making her way over the top of it so she could climb the stairs again.

 Nice one, Lena. :)

 Ready for dinner.

Sophie was happy to have everyone go off to eat so she could have the boat all to herself.

 Corn in one hand, popsicle in the other.

 They must be related. :)

 Ryan on those fun stairs.

 After dinner they whipped out the croquet set. Ryan tried to help with the setup.

 After all the excitement we went inside to get ready for bed. I put the kids in their clothes for the next day since we would be heading to the 4th of July Parade relatively early and I didn't want to have to get them dressed. Ryan immediately found Boots the cat, who actually seemed to tolerate him occasionally this visit--much more than previous visits.

Annie, however refused to put on anything but her pajamas. She is at a very picky stage in her clothing choices. If it's not hers, she doesn't want to wear it. Including new clothes. If she doesn't recognize it from wearing it before it's pretty much a guaranteed struggle to get it on her. So we postponed her new 4th of July shirt fight for the morning. And a fight it was. But she wore it in the end.