Just another busy summer week

 The week started with Colten heading off to boys camp.  They had a good group of deacons go and I was planning on driving up to get Colten on Wednesday for football practice but that all changed when we found out that a truck transmission blew and a couple of tires on the trailer blew.  So the camp ended up being in the front yard of Bro Hardy's house and the leaders were still able to have some fun activities for the boys.  Colten said they went down to the Virgin River, a couple of different spots, and tried river wars.  Then they went on a hike up in Colorado City that Colten would like to go back to again.  They broke camp on Wednesday so I just picked him up and got him off to practice.  We had lightening in the area so practice was indoors and then Thursday's was canceled.  But he is working hard to study his plays.

Zac had ordered Colten a gun (AR 15 I believe) while up at Bear Lake.  It shipped much quicker than expected.  It actually arrived on Tuesday and Colten came home to take a shower after the river and was able to open it.  Unlike Zac's gun, Colten's was pretty much assembled.  So on Thursday (after sanding on the truck Zac is doing) he started sanding his gun to paint.  Zac let him paint it and Zac cleared it.  Pretty cool for a 12-year-old.

Aspen and Tashlee spent their mornings earning a little money by walking a pair of dogs.  Aspen went to help sand on some doors on Monday and pretty much the rest of the week had been at home.  She did get an application for.a job at Davis and got that submitted.

Thursday night we went to St. George to get a part for Colten's gun.  Then we went to The Corndog Company food truck cause we have been forgetting about the starving student card.  I forgot how much I love those corndogs lol

On Friday I was gone tutoring and walked into the house and Colten was making dinner :). I loved it!  It was just mac and cheese but some pretty good mac and cheese.  Then after talking Zac and I decided we would head to my parents to have a little sleep over and then be closer to Enterprise.  Zac's brother Ron and his family were down for the weekend.  So that is what we did.  We had planned on sleeping there again Saturday night but I remembered that I had a sister date with Hollee.  My parents love having us come for a sleep over....Aspen especially loves it when she can curl up on the couch and fall asleep.  Both kids were out by 10 lol.

Saturday morning we headed out bright and early to make it to Enterprise for the Pioneer Day parade.  The kids were able to collect some candy.  Then the adults went to watch Nash play in a basketball 3 on 3 tournament while the kids played games.  Then Curt made some pretty amazing hamburgers for everyone and the kids played with water balloons (outside of course).  Kim suggested that we walk down to the snow shack and get some shaved ice.  Zac rode a bike instead.  Then we finished out the day there by watching some Olympics and and ESPN 20 on 30 about Bo Jackson.  It was a great time up at Enterprise.

I had about 20 mins at home before heading out for the sister date with Hollee.  We grabbed something to eat at Costa Vida before heading over to our concert.  We had about 30 minutes to kill before the show started so we tried to do a picture war with Zac (poor boy).  We got some awesome pictures of us and he just didn't catch on.  He sent us pictures of his green light on his gun, the cross arrows of his scope but he did send one of him and the Reese's he had bought.  We gave up and just talked.  The concert was Vegas McGraw, a tribute band to Tim McGraw.  He did a pretty good job at playing the hits of Tim.  Hollee and I had fun singing along with his songs.  It was a great way to end the 24th of July!

And so the picture war began lol

I was trying so hard to get a double chin but couldn't do it so I was laughing instead.

Today we are heading up to Richfield to visit Grandpa Higgins and Sheila.  I accidentally mailed something to them so we're going to pick it up lol.  Should be a great time!