July 6th

We headed up to my father-in-law's house in Heber to celebrate the July cousin's birthday.  Here are the 3 boys ages 11, 13 and 10.

The mother's who delivered those cute boys.  

(FYI:  We are all the in-laws.  We married the first three sons in the family.  There are five sisters and one more brother.) And, yes, we were all very wind blown by the end of the day.  Not the greatest picture of any of us.

We did go-karts

and roasted hot dogs.

I think we are done with major events for a while around here.  It has been a fun few days.

Fifth of July

We celebrated toothsome #1's 10th birthday.  

Later in the day, we visited the Temple Quarry trail

Had a homemade ice cream pie

Mom and son 10 years later.

And, because his birthday is so close to the fourth we always light fireworks.  

Fourth of July

For the Fourth, we headed over to Dentist husband's brother's house for a barbeque.  Here is visual proof that the men in Dentist husband's family love their non-alcoholic beer.

Later in the evening, we did our own Utah approved fireworks.

Many of us sat on the side and watched the fun.  Notice poor little niece on her mother's shoulder.  She was pretty distraught over all of the noise and lights.  Toothsome #4 was pretty perplexed by the whole thing.

Later, we drove closer to the Sugarhouse fireworks and watched them from a grassy area by our old house.  It was a great fourth.

Saturday Morning HIke Number 2

We did another family hike this weekend.  This time, it was more alpine.

Do you like toothsome #4's colorful outfit?

Waterfall

Playing in the water at the base of the waterfall.  

Shoes of Summer

You will all worship me when you need this information . . .

This little menace spilled red gatorade on my carpet this afternoon. 

At first, I didn't panic.  My sister gave me some Oreck stain remover that she claims gets up everything.  It didn't touch it.  

I then tried my tried and true Scrubbing Bubbles (which has taken on a mysticism not like Windex in the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" in my house.)  It didn't touch it.

I tried hydrogen peroxide--nothing.  

At this point, my breathing started to quicken and I imagined a big red stain forever in the center of my Great Room carpet.  I then went on-line and after reading things for about a 1/2 hour, combined some of the suggestions and did the following:

Mix 1/4 teaspoon of liquid dishwashing detergent (like Dawn) with one cup of water.  With a white cloth, dab onto the stain and let sit for 15 minutes.

Soak a white cloth in water and place over the stain.  With a hot iron, press into the white cloth.

Success!  The red stain started to absorb into the white towel.  After doing this about 15 times (with fresh, wet towels), the stain was gone.  

Then, to rinse the soapy residue off the carpet, mix 1 cup white vinegar with 2 cups water and dab onto the stain.

Then with warm water and towel, rinse again to get the vinegar/soap residue out.

Like the title says, if you ever have such a thing happen, you will worship me.

Saturday Morning Hike

Now that we are having normal warm, summer weather, I instigated "Saturday Morning Hike" in our house.  At rei.com/passport, I was able to print off some family friendly local hikes.  

Here we are at the start of our first hike. 

If you are wondering, how family friendly it is, toothsome #4 was able to do it all by herself, wearing her clothes backwards and her shoes on the wrong feet. 

Toothsome #3 (with his current pose of choice) at the top of the hike.  The amazing thing about this hike was that it was close to our house and an amazing waterfall was at the end of it.  

Summer fun is definitely happening around here.