Mexico Independence Day

We celebrated Mexico Independence Day with the Thomsons this year.  We went to Garcias for dinner and then to a park to hit a pinata.

Packer's turn...

Hailey's turn...

In the car on the way there Aliyah told me  “ I have a great piñata swing.”  “I’m a good Piñata-er.”  Sure enough, she was the one that broke the pinata!

The kids loved the prizes - thanks Grandpa and Grandma!

Grandpa and Jenny wearing the Pinata

Grandma joined in too :)

Logan

Jeff's Utah Prosecutor Fall Conference this year was in Logan.  We stayed at a nice Marriot Hotel Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday morning. 

While there we celebrated Aliyah's half birthday.  She now proudly tells everyone that she is "four and a half, almost five".  She's growing up too fast.

Aliyah has been wanting to take dance lessons so we got her a dance outfit to wear to her dance class.

The kids love staying at hotels.

The girls wanted to practice their dancing

Packer loved crawling around and exploring to see what he could get into.

We got a few pictures at Chili's (though it's not our favorite restaurant).

On Thursday we drove back for Aliyah's first dance class.  She was nervous, but very excited.

After her dance class we drove back up to Logan and did some swimming.

After Daddy got done with his classes, we went to the Logan Temple

We had a fun mini vacation and was glad Daddy let us tag along.

Peach Days

We took the family to Brigham City's annual Peach Days last year and enjoyed it so much that we decided to make it a tradition.  We tried some new, delicious foods: Peach Tacos and Peach Fritters.

This monument memorializes Brigham City's veterans.

Afterwards we stopped by a local farm and bought a box of peaches.  Jeff then got me a pressure cooker / canning pot that could be used on a glass topped stove.  We decided to try canning several things this year.  Jeff and I did it together and had a lot of fun.  We canned peaches and white peaches together.  The new cooker worked really well.  Jeff also surprised me with two picture-paintings of the Washington D.C. and Manti Temples to hang in our house that we saw at one of the booths.