24th of July Weekend

First stop the Bountiful parade on Friday night. Quinn stopped on his way to work that morning to get us a spot knowing you can't set up until 7:00 am or so we thought. Apparently you can't set up on the park strip until 7. People had camped out overnight on the lawns and then at 7 they all get up and walk across the sidewalk to the park strip but their stuff down and go home. We had no idea the Bountiful parade was this big a deal this being our first year. A very nice lady asked Quinn how much room we needed and then said here I don't think we need quite this much space and moved over just a bit. She was so nice even when we got to the parade. She gave Emma a treat and let her play with one of their water guns.

Not sure if James had a great time but he sure didn't like wearing his hat.

Aunt Annie joined us.

Emma enjoyed about the first half hour (we had already been there 45 minutes) before she lost interest.

Taking a break for a snack.

James snoozing until the fire trucks came with their sirens. He did however sleep through being hit with a piece of candy and some water from the water gun.

Another break to color.

And here is the reason we came. The Ogden High Marching Band with Uncle Taylor in there somewhere. Mom and Dad were already at Bear Lake so someone needed to support him. Way to go Taylor. You guys looked and sounded great.

The parade did not have many floats this year for some reason but this one was the best that I saw. It was a How to Train Your Dragon float. Pretty cool. Although we did not stay till the end. We left just after Taylor went by having been there 3 hours.

The next day we woke up bright and early and headed to Bear Lake for the day. We were not ready for an overnight because of our last Labor Day experience. (Go back to Sept. for a reminder - stitches were involved.) We had a great day with hardly no wind. Emma loved every minute on the beach. She was covered in sand head to toe most of the time and we had to drag her away crying to stay.


James is a trooper and tolerated everything.

Emma and Grandpa built an elephant and a snowman in the sand.

James really hated his life jacket. I don't blame him it's hard enough having no neck in regular clothes.

Emma liked the boat ride for about 5 min and then kept asking Quinn if we were done.

She still won't look at the camera.

Driving the boat.



The weather was great. Thanks Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa Moore for having us up for the day and doing all the work. We also thank you for getting our car started after water got sucked up into the engine. Quinn was trying not to get stuck in the sand to avoid being toad out instead he gunned it through the puddle on the beach and still ended up being toad out because of the water in the distributer. Now we know it is better to be toad out because you are stuck not because your car stalls. Thanks again.