Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!

On Friday, 1 July (Happy Dominion Day, Canada!), the troops began to arrive: Maren, Gavin, and the boys drove from Phoenix; on Saturday Anna, kids, and Katy arrived from a five-day road trip across real America with significant stops in Nauvoo, Omaha (they say the Zoo is still the best), and lots of quality time in West Virginia. While they were navigating the last few miles, many of the rest of us went downtown to cheer Meagan and her dancing troop on at the Freedom-Festival performance tent. Meagan pleads that she is not a performer, but we enjoyed it all a lot. A trip to town wouldn't be complete without some carnival food. Stadium of Fire was that night so we completed the evening at the park watching some great fireworks.

On Sunday everyone split up between our ward and Emily's for church. We all met later at our house for Sunday Dinner which was followed by a BYU walk. Amy and Jeff dropped in and shared some of Katy's yummy brownies and Phil and Meagan's ice cream.

Maren and Em with their kiddos

Meags

Beckham thought the dancing was spectacular;
I'm unsure about Jayson's thoughts --
Beckham found his mother and her look-alike sisters interchangeable

The Soelbergs were there too

The cousins headed for the park

The unibomber making brownies

A traditional ant-war sighting

Checking out the ducks and turtles at the BYU Botany Pond

The group on the canal walk

Taking the concept of canal walk literally

How ya gonna keep em down on the farm . . . ?

Mountain Goats Are Us

They were very fun tonight

There will be lots of things to report by the time the day is over, so don't touch that dial.

This, however, is all for now.

OXO

D.