Hobbitses Day 4: Let Freedom Ring

Thursday, July 4th, 2013

Independence Day

So.  I about had a nervous breakdown yesterday when I went to look for 4th of July pictures on my computer and there were none there.  I wondered how I could have missed downloading them off of my camera when I downloaded the rest.  So I got out my camera.  And guess what???  Right between camping pictures and 4th of July evening pictures, where the 4th of July day time pictures should be, there is nothing.  Like no thing.  It takes a lot to make me cry, and I came way super close to all out bawling.  I was depressed for a good few hours.  But then I shook myself out of it and I am fully recovered (kind of) today.  I did have a few pictures on my phone.  But here is what is not pictured, that transpired on that day:  

We had Independence Day pancakes complete with blueberries and strawberries.  We had a devotional and a flag ceremony.  We went to the parade.  We drove the army truck to the parade.  Not in the parade, just to the parade.  The Steves sat in the front and the rest of us piled into the back.  Not pictured is Redneck taking a turn driving the truck, all of us stuck in the back of the truck, cute pictures of my mom and Lauren and Addy at the parade, the water fight at the end of the parade when the kids got soaked by the fire trucks, and anything else that transpired that I forgot about because I DON'T GOT NO PICTURES TO LOOK AT TO REMIND ME!  (I did say I was only kind of over it)  Anyhoosers, here is Emily, who marched in the parade.  She is the one in the red sunglasses.

After the parade we headed home and had homemade hamburgers that were, if I do say so myself, delicious.  Then the boys played more games, some of us napped, some of us watched some more Jericho on Netflix.

And apparently someone took pictures of me sleeping whilst I was napping/watching Jericho.  If you don't know me very well, that is usually how I watch things.

Then the kids decided they needed a little more excitement than what we had to offer inside.  So they went out and rode the ATV's around the yard.

That night, we met my mom and Lauren at the park to watch fireworks.

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Hobbitses Day 3: The Day We Got To Shower

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

I woke up Wednesday morning to find Emily and Aubrey asleep like this.  

We had breakfast and then began to pack up camp.  We had fun camping, but there eventually comes a point when  you just need a shower.   We had arrived at that point and I think maybe had even gone a little beyond.  Emily took the below picture of herself as we were getting ready to head for home.

On our way home we passed the Manti Temple.  

We stopped by a cute little Malt Shop for some ice cream.  I'm sure we smelled fabulous to the other customers in the joint.  There was a set of missionaries there eating lunch.  It was a fight between the two families as to who was going to pay for their lunch.  The Hobbs won but some old man beat them to it.  Another set of missionaries came in right before we left and they were able to buy their lunch.

When we got home from camping, Zac stuck these fruit snacks to his head.  They remained there the rest of the night.  The adults went to a movie and dinner and didn't get home until almost midnight.  He still had these on his head at that time.

After unloading the camping stuff and cleaning ourselves up, we were all tired and were looking for something on Netflix to watch.  We turned on one of our family's favorite shows, Jericho, and got the Hobbs hooked on it as well.  Over the next few days we watched most of the series with them.

This must be a good part in the show because Zac looked up from his Axis & Allies game.

The adults left the kids at home and went to see a movie.  No, the movie was not Monsters U.  We saw World War Z.

After the movie we were starving.  It was almost 10 PM on a weeknight and most everything was closing.  I called several places while we drove around looking for some type of nourishment.  They all said they closed at 10.  It was looking like our only choice would be McDonalds.  Then I called one place and when they told me they closed at 10 I asked them if they knew of any place that was open later.  They said Buffalo Wild Wings was open late.  YAY!  Something other than McDonalds!  While at the restaurant, Heather ordered Jalapeno poppers.  She tried to get the two spicy taste bud babies to try them but we both refused.  Someone got offended that I called him a baby and that ended up in a contest to see who could eat a half of a popper and go the longest without a drink.  We were both brave and ate our half and both agreed that it wasn't even spicy.  But just for the record, he took a drink first!

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Hobbitses Day 2: More Camping

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Day two of camping started off with omelets for breakfast.  Then more ATV rides while the kids went back to work on their project of filtering the creek that runs into this lake.  They spent the entire day working on this.

Chillin' at camp

Cooling off in the creek

The wild flowers were beautiful

Steve and Aubrey

Tyler and Zac

Addy and Allyson

 Aubrey drove Steve back to camp

More chillin'.  Like a villain.

This man has been working hard all summer.  He needed this break.

Carving

 Roasting hot dogs for dinner

Heidi

Sierra

Heather and Sierra

 This kids were crazy during this game of Skip-bo.  I have a Video of them I will have to post later.

So the adults were down at the other camp brushing teeth and stuff when all of the sudden we noticed it was as bright as day over at the camp where the kids were.  And we heard excessive fire popping and crackling. We decided we better go check it out.  The kids had put about 50 logs on the fire (I might be slightly exaggerating) and you really can't tell from this picture, but we had a bonfire going.  In the middle of our campsite.  Surrounded by dry pine trees. We tuned the fire down a bit.

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