Our Kingly Expedition: July 2018

Friday, July 13, 2018

Birthday celebration at Medicine Rocks

Michael's 7th birthday just so happened to fall on a Sunday and the same day that his friend Nory turned 9. Our families discussed and decided a celebration was in order! After Sunday afternoon Bible Study we headed down the road behind Pastor and his family

I was thrilled to have Eldon rig up the train tracks and train on his cake!

The kids climbed and climbed all over these cool rocks.

Michael and his friend Nolan, who is only 2 months older then him.

He was so happy!

Blowing out his candle.

Nory blowing out his candle. I thought it was amusing that both boys only wanted a number candle :)

Birthday Boy! He told me his cheeks are getting puffy from eating to much sugar :). It happens!

Ethan was in his glory, climbing all over. This was not as bad as this picture makes it look, mom :). It was a very gradual hill and didn't drop off on the other side as it appears.

This freaked me out a little. I tried not to look. Thankfully Ethan couldn't make it up most of the high rocks.

Cool little window.

Yeah, that's Makayla and her friend Nodi peering over a cliff.

One, Two, Three ducks in a row.

It was much to hot for a fire but we made one anyhow and Ethan had fun burning marshmallows.

Happily, Eldon remembered to take his drone.

Such a pretty area!

We had a great evening in spite of the heat. In the shade it was bearable and became quite comfortable by dusk when we headed home. The children were completely exhausted and the girls both fell asleep before we got home!

4th of July and more

South Sandstone Reservior

A few week ago we headed out to find something new to explore. Someone recently set a charcoal grill by the dumpster so we grabbed that and some dogs and had us a picnic!

Getting as close as possible to the water so they could "fish".

A very pretty reservoir but no trees in site!

Big Sky Country!

The splash pad

Easily one of the children's favorite places in town! It's clean, cool and fun.

Notice, Emily has a new friend already. She has friends from the library, splash pad, and VBS that we meet all over town :).

Such a great way to burn off energy!

It's a bit sad to me that Michael and Makayla are just starting to get tired of splash pads and playgrounds after 30 minutes or so. It's been so nice having them all enjoy the same things!

Meeting new friends

Technically, we met the Skeat's at the Balloon Fiesta last fall but it was more a hi and bye type of meet. They happened to be heading through near our area so we zoomed up to their campground to connect again. We shared dinner and great conversation until the bugs nearly ate us alive and the stars were shining. As the sun was setting, there was huge amount of cotton from trees floating around and sparkling in the sunlight. I felt like I was in a fairy land! The children collected as much as they could.

Our trucks almost matched :)

A rainbow over the beautiful green hills.

Independence Day celebrations

Eldon had to work but the rest of us headed out to the fairgrounds to check out how a small town celebrates. We were not disappointed! Live music and tournaments of volley-ball, Corneille, and horseshoes were being played. There was good trucks and 5 bouncy houses/water slide things there. I'm sure you'll be shocked to find out that we were stuck at the inflatable fun for over 2 hours :).

This face painting was actually done at VBS but I thought it fit here as good as anywhere.

Michael bouncing down the big slide.

Ethan and Emily loved the slip and slide. He was having a fit because his wet shirt made him cold so we just took it off. I wasn't smart enough to bring swimsuits like most other parents did!