The Coombs came to stay with us while they were in town for the celebrations. So we got to hang out with them for five sleeps! The first day, me and the girls met them at Hertiage Park in Salt Lake. None of us had ever been there before. We enjoyed making crafts, riding ponies, and seeing what life would have been like when the pioneers first came to Utah.
My favorite part was panning for gold. It was fools gold, but it was still treasure. I could have done that for hours. This was Mira's pan. She was more excited about that agate than about the gold.
Saturday we went to the splash pad and had a yummy lasagna dinner. Then Sunday, the Coombs hung out with the rest of the Watts' and we went to spend the evening with my family. We barbecued and shot some fireworks in the comfort of the backyard. Neither Mira nor Cecily like the loud noise of the fireworks, so my dad let them borrow his noise-cancelling headphones. Mira still didn't want to stay and watch more than five minutes, but that was WAY longer than last year, so we're making progress. She would at least admit that they were pretty.
Monday was a day with the Watts'. Steve played foot golf with the other Watts men on Monday morning, while I took the girls up to play with their cousins at the Watts house. When they got back, the moms all went for pedicures and some shopping. We celebrated Davis's birthday with pizza and brownie sundays that night. There was lots of playing both for the adults and kids.
Tuesday was the 4th. It was a busy day. We met up at Great Grandma Watts' retirement home and talked to her and took pictures. She's got dementia pretty bad, so we were mostly introducing ourselves and letting her know she is loved.
From there, we divided up into teams and did a photo scavenger hunt of places that the Watts ancestors lived around Provo and Orem. It was fun to see where Great-great grandma and great grandma and regular grandma and even Daddy lived. I hadn't seen most of those places and we got to hang out together, so I enjoyed it until the heat made us all want to sit in front of a fan and sip iced lemonade for the rest of the day. :) After some lunch, we looked at our collection of pictures, played some games and then headed outside for water fights and slip 'n slides. I was sort of a party pooper for this part. I was not up for getting wet. But I participated in the frozen t-shirt contest! That should count for something right? :) I should mention that one of the games we played was "After the Manner of the Adverb," which I'd never played before. The first two rounds were played by adults, so we picked harder adverbs: flexibly and gracefully. It was all pretty funny--watching the women cook dinner "flexibly" or having the men play football "gracefully," but by far the funniest was when the men sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" "flexibly." I wasn't able to get to my phone fast enough or that would have been a video to go down in the history books. :)
Dinner was hamburgers and hotdogs and chips and watermelon. And of course we ended the evening with a bang. Thousands and thousands of dollars of fireworks were visible from our vantage-point and our display was amazing, too.
The rest of the week, I had to play catch-up on housework and then yesterday we went up to my parents' house to help them with some projects they want to complete before putting their house on the market in August.
Some other random pictures--
When we left one morning, there was a big beetle in our garage near a tub I set out there a few days before. I think it was a water beetle. And as I used a box lid to shoo it out of the garage, it stuck its butt up in the air to scare me away. (It didn't work.) He eventually climbed into the lid and I deposited him safely in our lilac bush. When we got home that night, this big guy was in the exact same place as the water beetle, but twice the size! If we hadn't taken the other beetle out before leaving, I might have believed he molted into this thing while we were gone. 😂 When Steve tried shooing this one with the same box lid, he got hissed at. Bugs are crazy.
These next ones are another collection of pictures that Mira took. Still impressed with her.
I love Cec-bug's thumbs up when she's approving of her own stuff. She was proud of this house that she built and she did the thumbs up when I asked if I could take a picture of it. :) She's so great.
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