July 24th, 2015

Enjoy some scenes from the Levan 24th parade. 

It started at 10:00 a.m. and we were home by 10:30 a.m.!

 Tyler, McKade, Story, Trevor, and Dallin

Bryce and Sharon Christensen were the Grand Marshalls this year.  

They were honored at the flag raising ceremony earlier that morning. 

 Levan now has a Town Youth Council.

This is Jaxon Pulver and his Grandpa on an old tractor.

 This is the entire Travis and Heather Ballow family...plus one. 

(The one on the tractor is Tyrel's little boy.)

AT THE PARK

 They had a cool game this year.  For $1 you could fish with your 

bare hands in this pool. If you caught a fish you got to keep it.

 Darcy, Rocky and Emily came!  Luke shared his puffy cheetos.

 The toddlers were drawn to Tyler.

 Kyla rides my bus.  

She and her dad are rock hounds and have collected some rare rocks.

 Miss Alicia found us.  Gabe thought she was funny! 

BACK AT HOME

 We put the grill master to work for dinner
rather than have Navajo Tacos at the park.

 Tyler and Katie show off their cool shirts from their first family 5K.  

They did the Temple to Temple 5K earlier that
day and set a family PR of "about an hour."

We had a pool party reprise that afternoon.

 Leia cleaned all my gnomes and....

ROCKS!

 Luke thought there was a monkey on his head.

 The evening entertainment was some native American dancers.

They were all terrific!

 

 The costumes were impressive! 

 The woman's name was Bethany.

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The Wilkins watched the fireworks from the park, but Grandpa, Joyce and 

I watched from our front porch.  They weren't bad through a pair of field glasses.

Scout Camp Visit with the Wilkins

While Tyler went to scout camp, his family came to Levan.

We had  a super fun pool party.

 It didn't take Leia long to figure out how to fill her weapon....

 and empty it! 

 It was all out war for a while. 

 Gabe was as sweet as ever and it thought his Grandma was funny.

 We had a watermelon party at the park in Nephi.

 

Finally the Wilkins got a picture with Uncle Jake.

If you look closely you can tell it was hot and it was nap time! 

Caden's solo visit

Grandpa and I had the great pleasure of having Caden spend 

some one on one time with us for THREE days!   We loved it!

 Scott, Baby Gabe and Caden at Katie's.

We picked Caden up at Katie's and went to see "Tarzan:
The Musical" ...put on by Spanish Fork Community Theater.  

 The next day, Grandpa took Caden fishing up to Mammoth Lake.

(I had bus in-service all day. :(  

 They saw a beaver dam that is inhabited. 

 They had to hold up in the trees while it rained and hailed.

 But...they did catch some fish!

 There was only one that got away and it took Grandpa's small net with it. 

Caden helped Grandpa gut the fish, but he didn't like it. 

The next day we stopped to see Grandma Anna.

 Grandma Anna and Caden

We delivered the beautiful table cloth Janna designed and made for her.

Below are some close-ups of the details.

 This shows the entire table cloth.

 This is Grandma opening the very un-fancy garbage bag wrapping job.

Here's Grandma inspecting it after it was on her table.  It fit so well 

you'd think Janna had measured the table three different times. :) 

 Grandma just couldn't figure out why Janna
would do something so beautiful for her.

Watch for it when you next visit Grandma Anna.

Caden in Grandma's chair.

Our next stop was in Spanish Fork to pick up Bethany and SJ.

 Caden and Sarah-Jane at Bethany's home.

 You'd think this two had lived together for a few weeks.

Then we stopped at the Mellors and traded Caden for Haylie.

 The boys went to the Provo Rec Center for the afternoon.

 Dallin, Hayden, Tyler, Caden and Kaleb.

The girls went to Little Mermaid Jr.  at the 

Hale Theater with Grandma and Bethany. :) 

 Haylie and SJ on the set

 This is Ariel rescuing Prince Eric.

 Here's the girls with Flotsam, Jetsam and Ursula,the Sea Witch! 

Here's the girls with Flounder, Sebastian, and Scuttle.

 Here's the girls with some "sea scenery."

 These are Ariel's sisters.

 Haylie, Sarah-Jane and Ariel

 Of course we had to go for a Frosty on the way home.  

Can you tell what flavor they picked? 

 SJ demonstrating a brain-freeze bite!

Hayden came home with us for a sleep-over at the end of the 

day and we stopped in to see Grandpa. It was chore time!

The boys had to see Grandpa's two little pigs. 

It was sad when we met Scott at
Katie's the next day so they could fly out.