Labor Day weekend we went up to Promontory Summit to see where the two railroads were joined together.

We got to see the two replicas of the original trains used.

 

The kids wanted to go walk along the tracks and pretend they were trains. 

 

 

Cambria and Kaitlyn starred as twin orphans in the Morgan Community's production of Annie.   

Here are a few select scenes from their performance.  I apologize for the shaky video.  It was shot with my cell phone which is harder to keep steady: 

If you can't see the video above, click here to view it on YouTube.

We held a little party after their performance on Saturday.  We were really glad that Grandma and Grandpa Farr, Grandma and Grandpa Hutchings, Great Grandma Page, Great Grandma Wilson, Great Grandma Hutchings, and Aunt Tammy could all come and see the girls perform.

This picture was taken pretty late so everyone looks a little tired: 

Milton started First Grade this year.  He was excited to experience a full day of school and school lunch (of course!).  He loves his new teacher. 

We were out exploring a couple of months ago and had decided to drive up the canyon that is east of Coalville (through Upton).  As we were driving, we noticed this marker on a dusty road and we stopped and took a closer look.  It turned out to be a state boundary marker for Utah at the southwest corner of Wyoming.

I'm a little late updating the blog as usual.  But last August we wanted to escape the heat of the summer and decided to go over to one of the campgrounds in Southfork Canyon to let the kids play by the river. 

 

For this year's 4th of July celebration, we stayed close to home and celebrated in Morgan.  Morgan City puts on a fun little celebration including a "double feature" parade (the parade goes up the street and then turns around and comes back again) and booths and kids games at the park.  

I didn't get any pictures of the kids gathering candy at the parade this year but here are some pictures of the activites they did at the park: 

On Saturday, Milton celebrated his 6th birthday with a friend party.  We decided to have it at the Riverside park in Morgan.  Angie was very brave to invite 14 kids to the party (of which 13 actually came plus our 4 kids).  So we had quite a crowd.

Milton is a very social little boy and enjoys having lots of friends.  He got a lot of fun presents from his friends.

 

Every birthday party has a birthday cake.  This year he wanted a monster truck cake (monster trucks are a neighborhood fad going around right now). 

 

 

Angie made him this one. 

 

 

Angie planned a lot of water-related activities for the kids to do.  By far the favorite game was water guns.   Every kid got his or her own water gun.  They played the game for quite a while and we had large packs of kids running around the park shooting water at each other.

 

Our soon-to-be first grader now has a gaping hole in his mouth where his two front teeth were. 

On Memorial Day, we welcomed the latest member of our family, Cali.  The kids have been asking, begging, and pleading to get a pet.  After one not-so-successful attempt at pet ownership, we got a kitten from a family in our neighborhood.  

We're very blessed to have so many parks within walking distance of our home.  On nice afternoons, it is fun to get out of the house and walk to a nearby park and spend a lazy afternoon letting the kids play.

Here are some pictures I took a few weeks ago on such a day.  We were walking to the Riverside Park in Morgan where they had just installed some new playground equipment.