Happy 4th of July!!!

Hello Everyone! Hope your 4th of July was great. Ours was! For the 3rd year, we have gone up to Evanston Wyoming to visit the Mangans, spend Becky's birthday with her, set off fireworks and then watch the fireworks all over the valley. The BIG fireworks are legal up there and instead of bringing illegal fireworks home, we decided it would be fun to go see John and Becky and celebrate it up there. John and Becky used to live across the street from us and we became very close to them and their family. They are like family to us, so it is nice that they live close enough to still visit.

On the 3rd we drove up to Mirror Lake with the Nixon's and then the Fischer's and Carter's drove up that way and stopped and had lunch with us. It is so beautiful up there and the kids had so much fun fishing. Tracy, Tim and the boys went out on the boat. The battery was dead so they jumped it and got it going, but then it died while they were out on the lake so they ended up rowing. They didn't catch anything till they were on their way back to shore, and then Jake caught one. Bruce Carter had said the best fishing was just off the boat dock and we had seen a guy standing there and he didn't catch a thing. Tracy took the kids to the same place after he left and as soon as they threw a line out, they caught one. Each of the kids said they caught about 10. I wouldn't be surprised if that was true. They sure kept Tracy busy unhooking the fish and putting them back out in the lake. Tim had fun watching... as you can tell from his recliner rock he found. :o) What a blessing to have such beauty and such wonderful friends to spend time with!!