Pioneer day

This past weekend we went up north to celebrate the 24th of July which is pioneer day. We were originally going to leave on Thursday morning, but since I had boot camp and Eli had one more swimming lesson we pushed back our departure. We left Friday afternoon after Eli's swimming lesson (which he is doing great at). We got to the cabin and just relaxed until the Gilmore's got there in the early evening. We ate dinner and then went for a walk which ended up with Eli getting the creek and riding in his blue truck naked. I am sure he just loved the freedom of that! The next morning we got up pretty early and drove to snowflake for the parade. Poor Eli got a bad eye again and it was watering so bad. Luckily my uncle bill was able to call in a prescription so we all headed off to Showlow to get him some eye drops. Everyone wanted to go to Showlow anyway for lunch and get some DQ. Steph and Jerel say that DQ in Showlow is the best one around. I got a root beer freeze and poured some in a cup for Eli he went CRAZY! He loved it and I honestly have not seen him go that crazy over something since he was a tiny baby. After our desert we went and hung out on Uncle Gayle's land with some family. Eli went and saw cows and horses and was a nice dirty boy. Then we headed to Uncle Doug's where he made yummy green Chile we played games. After games Jacob went to the Rodeo which he said was a blast and I went Steph and Doug's family to watch Mark (Becky's husband) perform at his 20 year reunion. Mark did a great job and it was very funny. We finished off the night by watching the fireworks on tee box across from the temple. It was such a pretty view with the temple and the fireworks. We had a great trip!!