Sewing with Grandma

My Grandma Water invited two of my cousins (Claira, and Rebekah), and me to do a sewing project with her. We made pillows. We did the front 4x4 like a quilt and then a border and a back. I had a great time. I love to sew and spending time with my family is a bonus.

4th of July

For the 4th of July I went to the balloon festival. It was fun to see all of the balloons. I have decided that I need to ride in one some day.

After the balloons I went over to the parade. This is one of my favorite floats, the American Fork one.

Don't forget Tom and Jerry!

Thanks Alan and Kristi for saving us a spot!

Bird Nest

In one of our pear trees at our house we found a bird nest. I think is really fun to see it.

Wild Fire

You may already know about the Quail fire in Utah County, but we could see it really well from my house. This is a picture of it from the backyard. I think that it is crazy how high the smoke got. We also watched it at night and we saw the flames, they were huge! It rain on about the 3rd day that it was burning and that helped a lot. It is now very close to being out.

Road Trip!

For a total of 4 weeks my parents and I decided to go on a trip to visit my sisters, who live in the med-west.
We had one day in Nauvoo then a week with Lindsey. Then we went to Cheryl's house and my parents left me there while they went on their cruise. They came back and we had another week with Cheryl. After that we drove back to Lindsey's and spent 2 night before driving home.

This is our first night on the road. We are in Kimball, Nebraska

Just imagine staring at this for 11 hours!

Next stop Nauvoo

This is where we stayed

Daniel really liked the wagon that we could sit on.

Here is me on the stilts and I am finally getting the hang of it.

We also went to Carthage jail and saw the room where Joesph Smith was held

Here, we are at the place that they make bricks

Now back at Lindsey's house

We decided to go swimming

Daniel like feeding the ducks

Daniel also liked trying out my rifle

Daniel didn't want to go to bed.

Does it get better than this?

After staying at Lindsey's we went to the St. Louis zoo together.

My favorite were the elephants

Here is one of the biggest bears that was there. 

The cheetah wanted to see us close up.

This is a okapi

After the zoo we headed to Cheryl's house

We are making cards for picture frames. Some of our finished ones are below.

We enjoyed our gyoza!

Here we are eating craw fish, and yes I did try some

When my parents got back we went to a red birds game

We got to ride on an old fashion trolley.

We went and saw the Peabody ducks at the Peabody Hotel.

How sweet

We took Cheryl and Kirk's kayak out on a pond

Here are some of the pictures I took when I was not on in the kayak

We went to Gus's world famous fried chicken

After a fun week with Cheryl we went back up and spent 2 nights with Lindsey.

We went to the park and I guess we wore Joshua out.

Grandpa turned 80

My Grandpa Smith turned 80 on the 23 of May. We had a big party and the family got him a tablet. I think that he will really enjoy it.

Hair Cut

I got my hair cut last Monday. I really like how short it is now. I got six inches off.

Baseball State Championship

My cousin Blake plays baseball at American Fork High School. This year they won the state championship. This is the first year sense 1985. Blake's team got a police escort home from their game.