We helped Daniel with some yard work in the morning. That was actually pretty fun. Asher mowed, Noel helped clean out some dead branches in the bushes, and Mattias and I power trimmed the shrubbery. Daniel then generously treated his yard workers to a game of lazar tag.
It was the adults versus the kids, and it was a blast. I can't believe how exhausted you can get in 15 min, just from ducking and scurrying around. It was so much fun. We are definitely going to have to have a re-match down the road.
We all went bowling in the afternoon. Sylvia and Addy had a good time sharing a lane. Kaydee was wonderful to help them out.
Spencer couldn't figure out why he couldn't just throw the bowling balls around, like he did other balls at home. Daniel spent a lot of time with him parked in the table, or wandering behind the lanes. Daniel is a good dad. He has been gone a lot working in the past summers, so we haven't gotten much time to spend with him. It was great to have him in town at the same time we were.
My other brother, Dave, was able to come to town for the afternoon. They bowled with us, then went to the carousel and spray park with us. Here is Dave holding their youngest, Felicia, on a horse. It was neat to see all these babies that we had never met.
Here are the rest of Dave and Brinda's kids: Colette, Darci, Joel, and Felicia.
If I could have changed one thing about our Rexburg trip, it would have been to go out to eat with just my brother Dave. - Maybe next time. It is tough to catch up on life, when you are trying to keep track of kids at a park. He is doing well, is in nursing school, and a very attentive father. I'm really proud of all the work he puts into his family and school.
That night, we went to a movie on the Martin-Willie Handcart companies:
It was really impressive to see in color what I had only read about in books, and from excerpts from peoples journals. I was surprised that the wolves were such a hindrance. It is also one thing to read about them burying a dozen people in a shallow grave, and another thing to see how that would have looked, in the frozen snow.
I had read other histories of this group, so I knew who was going to die by the movies end. It was an interesting perspective to watch them help others, only to lose their own lives.
It was a great show to see as a family, since we have early church pioneers on both Sean's and my side of the family. The kids were touched, it was a good way way to finish off Pioneer Day festivities.
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