After we got things going on the house we left for Utah for the fourth of July weekend. We decided to go to my mom's house because 7 of the 9 of my siblings were going to be together which doesn't happen very often. Plus we only had a few days because Jake had to be back by the following Monday. So we went up to see everyone and we had a great time. It was nice to see everyone, and it was nice for Jake to get to see my family. It had been a long time since he has seen any of my family. We stayed with my sister Amber and her family in her new house.
Angela let everyone ride her horse, which the girls loved the best. They kept asking when they would get to ride the horse. Angela is brainwashing all of her nieces to become mega-horse lovers like her.
We went to a parade on the 4th of July in Kaysville and unbeknownst to us they have a tradition that at the end of the parade the whole city gets into a big waterfight with the fire department. It was funny, because we didn't notice anything unusual the whole time, until all of a sudden at the end of the parade everyone around us was wearing bathing suits and holding water guns. People had brought huge buckets and tubs full of water. I hadn't even noticed them. It was a very fun parade. The kids enjoyed it too. Mostly because almost every groups was throwing candy to kids, and they all ended up loaded.
10 of the 12 grandkids were there, and we all stayed in the same house. So things got pretty crazy. The girls had a lot of fun playing with their cousins, and have repeatedly asked to go back to play with them.
The day after the 4th we had our own waterfight/games and had a family kickball game. The water games were really fun, the kids especially liked "dribble, dribble, drench." It is like duck duck goose, but you are going around with wet sponges. Kickball didn't work out too well, because most of the kids had their own idea of how to play it.
This is just a really cute picture of my niece Abigail. All of the Thompson kids are especially photogenic it seems. I am lucky to catch my kids for a picture.
Angela let everyone ride her horse, which the girls loved the best. They kept asking when they would get to ride the horse. Angela is brainwashing all of her nieces to become mega-horse lovers like her. 
We went to a parade on the 4th of July in Kaysville and unbeknownst to us they have a tradition that at the end of the parade the whole city gets into a big waterfight with the fire department. It was funny, because we didn't notice anything unusual the whole time, until all of a sudden at the end of the parade everyone around us was wearing bathing suits and holding water guns. People had brought huge buckets and tubs full of water. I hadn't even noticed them. It was a very fun parade. The kids enjoyed it too. Mostly because almost every groups was throwing candy to kids, and they all ended up loaded.
10 of the 12 grandkids were there, and we all stayed in the same house. So things got pretty crazy. The girls had a lot of fun playing with their cousins, and have repeatedly asked to go back to play with them.
The day after the 4th we had our own waterfight/games and had a family kickball game. The water games were really fun, the kids especially liked "dribble, dribble, drench." It is like duck duck goose, but you are going around with wet sponges. Kickball didn't work out too well, because most of the kids had their own idea of how to play it. 
This is just a really cute picture of my niece Abigail. All of the Thompson kids are especially photogenic it seems. I am lucky to catch my kids for a picture.
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