Matt's Family came to visit.

It was great to have Matt and Amelia come back to Idaho for a visit.  We really enjoyed having them here.  While they were here we did a number of fun things as a family.  There was the 4th of July.  All of the guys went golfing while all of the women took the kids and went to the parade.  The kids all seemed to enjoy the parade.  After the parade we went back to Mom and Dad's house and got dinner ready.  We were having a turkey fry with potatoe salad.  It ended up being a really good dinner.  While waiting for the turkey to fry a wiffle ball and bat were found and a game was started.  Most of the family played for a little while.  Wesley really wanted to bat so Jennifer helped as best she could considering Wes bats left-handed.  He got to run around the bases with Jennifer.  He preferred to bat though.  Dinner went really well and the turkey was absolutely great.  It is probably a good thing that we do not do that very often.  After dinner we all went down to try out Jennifer's new game, Just Dance.  Matt's family had never played before.  The kids really enjoyed it.  It was as much fun watching Stephen, Jack, Hallie and Wesley play as it is to play myself.  It was great watching them try to do the moves to songs that were popular when their parents were kids. 

On Monday we headed to Lava Hot Springs for camping and swimming.  We sat around the campfire had dutch oven one night and hotdogs the next and, of course, roasted marshmallows.  Jack really liked to roast the marshmallows, but preferred to have somebody else eat them.  The second night we were there we

needed to chop some firewood.  We had some fairly large logs that needed to be a little smaller.  Don got out his ax and Amelia went to work.  She did pretty well on the first log, but if the ax ever got stuck she had to have someone else pull it out since she was not wearing any shoes. 

It was pretty funny to watch her.  Swimming was great even though almost all of us ended up with sunburns.  It is nice to see that my boys did not inherit my tendency to burn.  Both Wesley and Jonathen ended up with nice little tans while Kyle and I both got sunburnt.  On Wednesday, we headed to Pocatello to get some family pictures done.  They turned out pretty well for a group so large with so many young children.  It is nice to have current pictures of everyone.  Overall it was a great visit and we were sad to see them leave.