Independence Day Weekend

Almost every year we go to Bear Lake over the 4th of July with the Thorson family and every year we make a sand sculpture of some sort. (notice Corbett is caught by the Octopus!) Below is the early stages of the Octopus...yes we bring our full size shovels for the event!My little stud!Corbett and his "friends" in the kayak and on the water rocket.
We usually get in a game of 500.
Corbett driving the boat!My dad with Corbett and his cousins. My aunt Maryann has a cabin at Bear Lake with some property for us to camp on. We go to the North Beach because her cabin is on the north side. It's nice to camp there or just go back for dinner and to clean up after a sandy day at the beach!

We had a good time at Bear Lake but we also had a great time on the 4th! Unfortunately I don't have any pictures because we had a lot of fun. I volunteered to help out at the hamburger stand our ward youth did at the "Cruise In" so I spent the afternoon over there but then my friend Shauna called and said her father-in-law had an extra truck registered in the cruise-in and we could drive it in the parade! We had a lot of fun having that experience. We drove a truck...I couldn't really tell you what it was and I wish I had a picture. After the cruise-in we came back to our house for fireworks with Shauna and Brians kids and the Dicksons came over too. I'm usually opposed to spending too much money on any fireworks (sparklers are the exception) but the kids reactions to our fireworks made it worth it. (we didn't exactly splurge anyway). I even talked Cody into a watermelon because to me that's a tradition on the 4th.

I sincerely hope all my friends and family are doing well. I feel I should mention that because of the trials some of you are experiencing. I won't go into details but it seems it's been a hard week for many of you and we hope you know we are here and hoping you will let us know if we can be of service. We love you all!