ATOMIC DAYS!!!

I highly recommend Atomic Days in Arco to everyone. The parade starts with an airplane flying over main street and dropping ping pong balls and everyone runs out to get as many as possible because the sheriff's office will give you 50 cents for each ball you bring in (sorry, no pictures, Ben was in charge again) quindy got $2 (thanks Shannon) And then the parade starts, and they throw lots of candy, I mean lots. We had a great time there. Thanks Matt and Steph for inviting us. And if anyone is going through Arco when they are having this parade, I recommend you stop and watch, plus it the parade route is State Hwy 20, so you can't get through until the parade ends.

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I caught a fish!!!

We have taken up fishing as a family, and so I bought my first fishing license. And I actually caught a fish!!! I cast it, caught it, set it and reeled it in, all by myself. I did let Ben take it off the hook for me and rebait it because he really likes doing that. I was so excited.

Meanwhile, while I was working so hard to get a fish, Quindy is there with her Dora fishing pole and she says, "I caught one" and we said reel it in, so she does, and what do you know, she really had a fish!! She did that twice. She is just a natural. We forgot to take a picture though. Next time.

Slade

Slade is just getting so big!! I can't believe he just had his 4 month birthday. I still think he should just be a newborn and it amazes me all the things he is learning to do.

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Menan Parade

It just wouldn't be the 4th of July without the Menan Parade. It was a bit disapointing since they didn't pass out chocolate milk, but we still had a good time. Ben was in charge of taking pictures, which is why we don't have a picture of the horse drawn hearse, or of the cowboy dancing with his lasso (this really was impressive because he jumped in and out of his lasso the entire parade route in long pants and shirt and didn't even seem winded) I took over the pictures towards the end, which is why we got the tractor.

GOLD FEVER

We went to Crouch for a family reunion the end of June. We saw lots of Ben's cousins and had a really good time. Along the way, we stopped at the ghost town of Custer City. Ben took Quindy into the gift shop to buy some candy and while waiting to check out, the ranger girl took so long chatting with the men in front of them, that Ben just had to buy a gold pan, at least that is what he told me. I'm sure it was really hard on him, since on the way up he mentioned that he thought it would be fun for the family to start gold panning as a way to pay for family vacations. We'll see what great trips we get to take :)