Father's Day Weekend and Rodeo Fun

It has been another fun and busy weekend for our family. Seth had Friday off and so we celebrated father's day then. We took a drive through the Unitas to Kamas Utah to try out our new toy a Tom Tom. It really didn't know how to get where we wanted but lucky for us it is a pretty straight shot. It was fun to go out and see nature, as we drove up we came across....SNOW and not just a little but like a foot of snow just there. That night we went to the rodeo with my parents and neice and nephew. It was fun the kids liked to see the horses, and cows, and they all went out for the chicken chase, only courtney really chased the chicken. Kade and Ava were both too afraid of the chickens. Courtney was sad she didn't get a prize and by the end the kids were all ready to go. We walked back to my parents and Said good-bye Courtney and Kade were sad Ava wasn't having a sleepover too, but we had to be up extra early trhe nest morning and went home.
We got tickets to go to the Oquirr (oaker is how it is pronounced) mountain open house for Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and it is 1 1/2 hrs to get there so we left the house at 7 a.m.! Ava isn't fun to wake up and can be a real bear if you do, but otherdays she is up before anyone else. We got on the road and got there and got the girls ready. It was so beautiful and a great experience for the whole family. Ava had a few 2 yr old moments like when she pulled her skirt off on the stairs when we were getting ready to leave and playing like she couldn't get up them and needed help to get up them. I would suggest that anyone that can go does, well worth the hour to go through the process. After we got done at the temple we were off to wheeler farm for an exteneded graham family reunion.
We got a little worried about the weather since it have rained all but one day this month here in Evanston, and only like 3 days in salt lake, and the skies were really cloudy and looked like it was gonna pour on us at moment. We had some real fun getting there since it wasn't a preprogramed point. After we got there we changed our clothes and went over to see the family that was there. We got to get reaquanted with some cousins and got to introduce Ava and Madison to seth's family. They had rented a boumce house and a slid with a ball pit at the end. Ava just wanted to play in there, then the rain came down... and ava was still playing in there. She was so happy to play in there and nothing was gonna stop her, when her pants were to wet she just took them off and was back to playing. After a little while she was tired and was done, then she was cold and wrapped up in her princess blanket. It was so fun to see family an dtalk.
We wanted to go to the zoo but it was so rainy and cold, plus ava had fallen asleep and we didn't want to wake her up, we told my mom that we would stop by and see my grandpa and drop off his Father's day present. He is in an Senior living facility. We found out a few years ago that he has Alzhiemer's and has slowly be going down hill mentally. It makes it hard to go and visit at times when he has no idea who you aew and why you are there but seems glad you came to see him. This was one of those trips. I am glad that he is in a place that can take such good care of him and know he is in a safe place and not going to hurt himself or anyone else.
We thought we might try to go to the rodeo agian but it was really raining when we got back and hasn't really stopped. We have had a few breaks but not much. So this morning we went to my parents ward for church and then had some really good food too. I feel so blessed to have my family so close and the wonderful fathers in our lives. here are the pictures I promised to post.