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What a weekend we had.
Saturday was the Cherry Festival, so we spent the whole day over in Emmett.
Our day started out early this year because Heath was running his first ever 10K.
Matt signed up also for the 10K while my mom did the 2 Mile run.
They all did SO wonderful, we were proud of them....what an accomplishment!
Now next year they will have a personal goal to beat and Luke decided he wants to run it too!
Our favorite runner

Heath, Matt and Dan (a family friend)

My mom and Roberta (Dan's wife)

Grammy running to the finish line...

She got 3rd place for her age group

Matt came in a little over a minute before Heath and received 2nd place for his age group.

Matt 1:00.52

Heath 1:02.35

Next year we think the boys need matching outfits like the guy on the left.

So proud of you Heath!

Cody asked that I take this picture of the boys while we were waiting for the race to finish.

After a huge breakfast, showers and change of clothes we were back down at the park. Matt & Summer along with my Mom & Dad had a church banquet to attend so they had to take off for the day. They looked so handsome all dressed up!

My Daddy and Mini-Phil

So even though it's the same rides every year, the kids still love it.

I think Luke and Cody will be ready to move up to some of the bigger rides next year.

I'm not a fan at all of carnival rides so I always worry that they will spend the rest of the day feeling sick like I used too, so I never encourage them to try all the rides.

Ryan on the other hand loves the rides where you sit in a vehicle and pretend to drive, honk the horn and go around and around.

No joke, he went on the same ride at least 20 times. The minute the ride would end he would run to get in line again. I would tell him over and over that he would have to wait in line, no crowding or running in front of other kids but every time when the gate opened he took off and raced for whatever vehicle he wanted to drive that time around.

The kid enjoyed every second of it though, he was cute.

The boys also enjoyed plenty of sweets like snow cones, cotton candy and ice cream.

The older boys were brave this year and tried out some new fun activities.

I so wish I would of brought my camera down to the park but I didn't want to carry it around and who knew this was the year they would decide to be so daring.

Cody took a turn riding a mechanical bull. He was hilarious to watch trying to keep his one hand up in the air until he eventually got thrown off. He made it 8 seconds though!

Luke tried out a jumping thing where he had a harness around his waste and would jump on a trampoline that would shoot him 20 or so feet up in the air. It took a lot of work for this light weight to do back flips, but he got it figured out. It was so funny watching him fly around.

Then Cody and Luke tried something I have never seen before.

The boys each got inside a giant plastic bubble that they would fill with air and seal up.

Then they would run around inside this ball (like a hamster) on a pool of water and never get wet. It was so cool to watch and looked like a lot of fun but definitely a lot of work too.

We were beat by the time we made it home that night.

Father's Day

We enjoyed a lazy morning on Sunday and then headed to town to look around the new sporting goods store (Heath's choice, it was his day) and then met up with my sister and her family for lunch.

Once we got home we crashed!

Our dinner consisted of this oh so yummy homemade (but not by me) Chocolate & Peanut Butter Pie!

Happy Father's Day to all those daddy's out there!

We think you are the best, Heath, Dad & Arnie!