And We Danced Anyway: 24th Of July Cabin Weekend

This year it was decided that we would celebrate the 24th of July and have our annual horseshoe tournament the weekend before the 24th of July. This is one of my favorite weekends of the year!! It's a time to relax and spend time with family.

Before we headed up to the cabin we needed get the kids' shirts made. This year we decided to try tye dye and it worked out pretty well.

Getting prepared to tye dye

Once we had the shirts all taken care of we got packed up and were on our way to the cabin.

The first night we took a walk down the road to the haunted cabin

Checking out the haunted cabin - someone actually started cleaning up this cabin this year so it really didn't look very haunted, haha

Look how scared they all are

We got up there a few days early so that we could relax and let the kids have time to play in the creek. The next morning we went for another walk up the hill.

Fischer getting the bikes ready for the parade

Time to play!

Jeffy needed a nap

Then we drove into Kamas to get some ice cream.

The kids wanted to take a ride on the 4 wheelers, this was the group that came with me.

I even let Emma drive - scary!

That night we let the kids paint rocks that the found.

Watch out Jeff, there is a creep behind you

Finally someone to bug!! Glad to see you Hayden.

We told all the kids to chase Hayden and his friend, it was pretty awesome

Later the kids decorated their bags to hold their candy in the next day.

The big day had finally arrived!! Look at all these cute faces!!

My dad tye dyed his own shirt, but as soon as he got it on and took one look in the mirror he decided he looked ridiculous and took it off. HAHA

Here comes the parade

Wasn't that great!

Time to put on more sunscreeen

Cheer up Brooks

Bryan made the kids snow cones

Jeffy told Nikki "Feed it to me"

Time for some games

Haha!

Time to dig through the saw dust for candy, prizes and money!!

The spectators

Bronson cools off by the pool

Wake up Hayden, we're having fun!

This year my horseshoe partner was my daddy! We didn't take it all, but we did well coming in at 4th place! I really should have gotten a picture of us together, but I wasn't feeling to great this day so I didn't get nearly as many pictures as I should have. The big winners were Kwinton and Sarah!!

Glow stick time

Dancing

Love sitting by the fire at the end of a long day

Me and my Nikki!

My cute parents!

Good morning! That is some serious bed head.

The last day we decided to have another smaller horseshoe tournament, each adult was paired with a kid. Emma and I were partners.

Let the games begin!

Emma playing scorekeeper

Go Hannah!

Sam's socks full of rocks

Look at that form!

Fischer caught a snake. Yuck!

Braxton really knows how to dress to impress

For the win!

Kwinton takes Amber for a ride

Nikki didn't want to take the garbage down in her car because it was leaking so she decided to hold it out the window until she made it to the garbage can.