THE WRIGHT STUFF

We had a great 4th of July...my extended family gets together at my parents and we have a big sleepover outside- filled with activities and food! We swim, ride horses, make crafts, play horseshoes, golf, eat, laugh and of course - fireworks for the kids. Here are some of my gorgeous cousins...all of whom are SINGLE, except my sister who is in the middle.Ruby attempting to ride a horse like a pro. My cousin Jace was so nice to lead each kid and adult (those who were scared to do it alone) around the field. He was doing it for a good 2 hours.
The horse got the 'shivers' and shook for a second which scared her to death...
So this is the end result of her infamous ride. Poor thing.

It's also tradition to run the 5k the next morning in Henefer. We always run and usually win some nice drawing prizes. The prizes were lame and few and far between this year. But Marty, Jared, Ingrid and I all placed in the top 3 in our individual age groups...pretty cool. There were only about 130-150 runners but still - we were happy to get medals!
Here is all of the family that got up and ran in the race...pretty awesome.
We went to a Jon Schmidt concert in Sandy (Marty's Mom bought us tickets for our birthdays)... I had (GOT) to take Ruby because Marty had (GOT) to be at our ward camp-out-which happened to be on the same night (at my grandparents property).
Ryan(Marty's brother) and Becca were able to come with us...The concert was EXCELLENT...especially because it was outdoors.

THE LAKE!!!

ON the road again, I just can't wait to get on the road again...We had such a great time at Lake Almanor...I made these little dresses for my nieces and Ruby. They looked so cute on them.

The cabin we stay in is in a perfect location, right on the beach and right by the park where they hold outdoor live concerts every Sunday. This is my nephew Anthony.


Liam did not LOVE the water, but he tolerated it and I think he may have enjoyed it once he was in and moving.
Ruby on the other hand was a little FISH this year. It made it so fun that she always wanted to be in the water swimming.
Rube's and uncle Dave...he is so good to play with her and will always build a sand castle with her.
This dog, Lucas, was a hit. He is about as big as a stick of butter, okay maybe a wee bit bigger but not much. Dave brought him back from Peru and we tried to Americanize it as much as possible. He was an attention getter anywhere we went.
Liam taking his first RIDE> Oh yeah.

Here is the crew. Of course we are missing Marty's other brother and his family, but that is all of us.
This entertained Liam whenever we needed him entertained...(during dinner prep and such)- can you guess what it is?
AHHHH. I don't know how it happened but he is OBSESSED with Elmo.?! I'm not going to start buying him Elmo t-shirts and stuff- but maybe a book and stuffed Elmo or a couple Elmo movies would do. I knew this would happen one day.
We thought we were making great time to leave early on Saturday morning for our 10 hour drive home and then hit THIS! We sat in traffic for 1 and 1/2 hours!!!! We'd only been driving for one hour when we stopped...talk about frustrating. I guess it was a really bad wreck though and involved at least one fatality. The kids did pretty good considering.