Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Steel Days and the 24th of July

For those of you that aren't familiar with Utah, every summer just about every city in Utah has it's own celebration days, Steel Days is for American Fork, where I grew up. They have a parade, we did not go to that one this year, but they also have a carnival. Emma loves the carnival and all the rides. Here she is on the little caterpillar roller coaster...she liked it before it started, but once it started moving she was not happy about it. I think she was probably just a little too small for it still, she probably needed somebody sitting next to her because it jerked her around. I tried to do it with her, but they wouldn't let me.
This is at the Lund family party. We had a big lunch and played games. When that was all over we all went back to our house and made smores in the fire pit. My uncle made homemade ice cream with my grandpa's old ice cream maker, we used to have it all the time when I was little, he made the same recipe my grandpa always made, which was the best. Hopefully the ice cream is something we will do every year.
This is Emma at the carnival again...she just loves to drive
Obviously this picture was taken before the ride started moving.
James was pretty tired at the carnival, my Dad found a bench and sat down with him so he would fall asleep.
James at the family party...he was having a good time
This is Emma and some of my cousins kids eating homemade ice cream at the party...they all really liked it.
after all the food we did fireworks, Emma loves watching the fireworks

James wasn't so sure about the fireworks at first.

as you can tell Emma really enjoyed her smores and ice cream at the party.
This was sunday dinner the next day...James' first time with mashed potatoes, he really really like them.


Emma was very excited to have corn on the cob.
Geoff and I bought a few fireworks for us to do with the kids for Sunday night.
Emma liked doing sparklers, but she was still a little bit nervous about getting burned.
Emma and James watching the fireworks

He likes them now!
Emma decided she was done, so Geoff and James did some sparklers.

3 comments:

Trishelle said...

What a blast! You made me hungry for homemade ice cream. In fact, we've got an ice cream maker. Wanna join us the next time we break it out?

It looks like you all had a great time!

Shambi-Galambi said...

SO CUTE!

Glad I found you.
I'm trying to start a blog about our ward and the activitys that are going on. want to join?

http://northfield14thsisters.blogspot.com/

heather carlson said...

CUTE!! But I don't blame Emma, Morgan got burned pretty badly last year from sparklers. She has some scars on her wrist. :( Who knew sparklers could be so dangerous. Morgan now sticks to glow sticks on the 4th! :)