Fiesta Days Rodeo

Happy 24th of July! To celebrate, I invited my family to come to the Spanish Fork Rodeo. They haven't been to one in a long time and it was Paxton's first time. He loved it. It surprised me that he was intrigued the whole time and stayed up until 11:00 without being grumpy. It was so fun. I think my favorite events are the mutton bustin and the bull riding. of course. Thanks family for coming with me! (poor Danny had to work again :( )

This little kid made it across the whole arena. So entertaining.

My cute mom.

See how into it he was?

what a cute couple

RMR

I love going to Rocky Mountain Raceway. It's fun to watch the races and bet on which car will win. It's  also fun to be with your family, eat yummy food, and see awesome people in the stands.

Sometimes I don't even pay attention to race at all. I just spot out these great people!

I guess she needed her go pro on her head to video all the laps. Makes it a lot easier when you can just turn your head!

This lady is always here. She has fun hair! 

This kid is always here! He's the flag boy. He seriously has his own set of flags and does whatever the people do up in the box. I don't know why they haven't hired him yet.

K this is where the races get boring. 50 laps is bad, but 125? Wow. Dizzy.

And this is what made sitting through that last race all worth it. I love fireworks!

7 Peaks

Oh Seven Peaks. So fun. So busy.
 Along with everyone else, we have the Pass of all Passes. I finally used it this year! 

My sister and I decided to take a girls trip one morning and go to the water park. Mindy invited her sister-in-law Rachael and her kids too. This way, Mindy and Rachael could watch the little kids at the kiddie pools and the big kids and I could go on the big slides. It was great how it all worked out!

These were my buddies all day! Jessie and Taylor. We went on slide after slide. It was fun to see how much they loved each slide.

Mindy and Paxton. Pax struggled with the water at first and was a little grump. By the end though, Mindy said he was walking around the kiddie pool by himself.

Haha nerdy smile

Pax and his cousins, Tyson and Tanner.

Tanner, Jessie, and Taylor

Greene Valley Ranch

I absolutely love this place.  It is in good ol' Atlanta, Idaho where the population is about 80ish people in the summer and 30 people in the winter.  But like I have said before, it is my little piece of heaven.  My Great Grandpa Greene bought this land back in the day. He bought it from Herman Coors of Coors Beer. He has since built the lodge and has created a place that everyone loves. 

This year was a little different though. Daniel had to work all week and couldn't come. It was sad and I missed him a lot! I still had a great time being with my family and relaxing at the ranch!

This year we meant a lot of townspeople. Leonard, Mary, the Preacher, and...Sharon and Billie. This is their house. It is 100 years old. They live here in the summers and in Boise in the winters. This house was almost burnt down during the big fire a few years back. The fire went around their whole house but did not touch it. Amazing! She gave us a tour of her home and told us a lot of the history of it, the mine and of Atlanta. It was super interesting!

History of the mine. Miners were only paid $.78 cents an hour!

Carolyn, Sharon, and Grandma

 We went swimming! One of our favorite games is playing the glow stick game in the pool!

Paxton and Dad. Pax isn't a big fan of the water.

 Rhino! So fun to drive around in. Pax loved the rhino rides.

Cousin Tyson doing his fire poi

Sound of Music four wheeler ride.

 Went to Chattanooga! (A natural hot spring. The ranch gets the hot water from here.)

I don't know why Pax is making that face

 We went shopping. There's one small shop that is full of items that this guy collects (junk). Some of it was interesting. Ben and Erika bought Atlanta t-shirts.

 Fishing! Isn't this little lake gorgeous?!

 

Poor Lilo loves biting the tires of four wheelers when they're moving (not smart) and she got run over :( She still is happy and she learned her lesson.

We visited the jail.

 And the cemetery.

We played with the dogs and swung on the swings.

We had a great time! I'm glad I went! But I missed you Dan!