My birthday

Birthday this year, none of us had to work, so I decided to take everyone to the sheepdog championships and watch the duck herding events.  But in the morning, Sam got to be part of the memorial day program put on by they city at the cemetery. It was neat to see and I love watching Sam play. He finished and I met some of the others that played in the band while Sam helped the percussionist load the truck.... and came back with a sore and red hand. The wheels had come off the bass drum and smashed his hand/wrist.  Since we were going to Bear Lake, we felt like it would be wise to make sure that it wasn't broken.  Jer took Sam to get an Xray and I went to take a birthday nap.  We missed the sheepdog thing, so we stayed home and played card games and set up a backyard movie with Beth's family.  Ada made me a sugar free birthday cake and we had fun timing lighting birthday candles with wind gusts. I had a fun day.

 

Memorial Day

Jer and the kids all had Memorial Day off... and all my daycare got picked up by 2 so we took advantage of the time together.  We tried the kronut (ice cream/donut) shop that opened up near by. And we went to Neptune park. It was a fun day.

 

Kayaking with the Brashers

 

One of our favorite things to do is to share fun activities with family and friends.  The Brashers had never been kayaking, so we went down to Salem Pond and had a blast.  There were more people at the pond than I've ever seen, so we found a quieter spot away from most of the people and made a base camp.  There were many adventures, between Joseph and Ada trying to use the youth kayaks and swamping them, Evelyn stealing the paddles from Matthew and Ada, Sam rescuing them, Jer accidentally throwing his fish line in the water, Seth paddling out and rescuing it with the proudest look on his face... I saw smiles and heard laughs from everyone.  My sister Janelle came and that was fun to catch up with her.

Sam fishing

I liked this one because each person kind of matched their boat.

Evelyn fishing

The guys fishing next to us kept sharing their bait with us, we only caught one fish between everyone, and realized that we hadn't brought anything to keep it in, so we gave it to them.  Everyone had fun fishing anyways.

Seth kept coming back and trying out all the different boats.  

Jeff did a great job with both the kayak and the standing paddle board.

This face is why we like kayaking.

Robert, Joseph and Matthew kept trying to capsize each other.... so Evelyn joined in with bumper boats.