Ha ha, family members would be offended if they read my blog. Which most don't (except for you important few -- you know who you are, aka anyone who happens to read this blog). But in their defense, I live close and can easily attend while others live far away and lives get busy and hectic. As Michael explained to his mom, it's a big bunch and even if only half attend it's a lot of people. But here are a few pics of the event... and a few extra festivities that happened on our weekend.
Friday night rodeo, which was kind of a bust this year. Last year the kids were able to try and catch a chicken, and it was entertaining. But this year, I think it was poorly organized and boring to watch so we bailed early.
We left and went to get snow cones. Most of the kids got Tiger's Blood flavoring, which I think is probably just cherry with 4 times the amount of red dye, but the kids loved it. I refrained from posting the grossest pic of Katelyn's teeth. It looked like someone punched her in the mouth and her teeth looked all bloody...
Here are Sam and Luke seriously waiting for the parade to make its way to us. (We almost always sit at the very end of the parade route because it's up the street from my dad's place.) It was a good parade because it was short! About an hour, which is good.
Jared and his friend Julie planned a hike up to Timp Cave and invited us to tag along, so we went. I teasingly told the kids I needed a recent picture of all of them in case we lost them on the mountain and we would give it to the police to post on the news. Little did I know how true that statement could be, because it's a pretty treacherous hike. It has been probably 15 years since I hiked that hike and my memory must not be very good, because although the way is paved the entire way, it has steep switchbacks about a mile and a half up the mountain, and right NEXT to the paved 4 foot wide path is 100 foot drop... to the next path that you passed 10-15 mins before. So I think you could literally fall all the way down the mountain. So we risked life and limb of our kids and my brother's kids up this mountain. Needless to say, it was a nervous hike for us, and MUCH harder than I remembered.
This is half of us on the switchback above us. Katelyn and I brought up the rear most of the time. The kids did great and hiked the whole way on their own. Katelyn got a piggy back ride for a brief time, but for the most part did it by herself. She said her favorite part "was eating food" (the snacks we brought).
Then we went swimming and had pizza.
That night before bed, we checked on Katelyn and saw her asleep with her parade loot. 
What a weekend!
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4 comments:
What a fun weekend! And have I told you how cute your kiddos are? Love the blog!
How fun!! I am sad we missed it. Maybe next year. :) That hike is deceivingly hard. It is fun when you are all done though. Glad you guys had a fun weekend.
Gives me the willies just reading about it. Did I ever mention I hate heights?
GREAT BLOG!!
I am so sad we missed it, especially since people actually came, but maybe next year.
I love the Tigers blood!!
I always think of Mom running down the hill and going to fast and knocking herself out cold when she was in High School. I still find myself telling my kids never to run down hills.
Great pictures and I love Katelyn's loot.
I haven't done that hike since Bill and I were dating. I must have been in better shape because we got there right after the last tour was cut off and they told us we could make it if we fast paced walked or ran and didn't stop once. I was almost angry by the time we got up there because I'm a stopper. I haven't been back in over 20 years so maybe I was more angry then I remembered, hahaha.
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