Correction to my first blog

I am trying to learn, so I just want to explain. It is suppose to read "Hare Kirshna Temple and high school bands...".

Summer just doesn't get any better than this.

Spanish Fork has a great home town parade celebrating the 24th of July (Pioneer Day in Utah). One of the best parts of the day is having family around, so this year was especially great. We borrowed Jacks for the night and let Scott and Lori had some rest. It was completely selfish on my part because it was so fun to have him around. Janna was the best because she did all the work.

Dallin brought Jacks down from SLC after he got off work. Jacks walked in the house with his Spiderman backpack, started unloading all of his treasures, two Spiderman toys, a truck, McQueen pillow, his "comfy,warm blanket" and his McQueen blanket and showed them all to Grandpa Bear. We blew up a big air mattress for him and Janna to sleep on in the front room, which only proved to be a big trampoline (or lauching pad) for Jacks to jump up on Grandpa Bear. With the trampoline, popsicles and goodies, he was not going to let Janna get any sleep.

The next morning, we walked down to the middle school where the parade started. The weather was absolutely perfect and the parade was complete with bagpipers, floats, candy tossing marchers, wagons and horses (and the results of many horses), a complete section from the local Hara Kirsand high school bands sadly missing 3/4's of all their members. It is safe to say it would take about 76 such bands to come up with 76 trombone players.

Dallin brought Liberty along. A man came up and asked me if he could pet her. He just stroked her for the longest time telling me about his cocker spaniel he had when he was growing up. He sighed, got up, thanked me and left.

Scott, Lori, Kendall, Chelse, Dallin and Janna were over at the house for a pickle party. It was fun for me because a lot of the stuff, I got out of our garden; tomatoes, sweet onions, cucumbers, peppers, zuccuni and lots of beets that I pickled. In the evening, we went out side to throw some snappers. It was really funny because Jacks couldn't throw them hard enough to make them snap. No matter what he did, he could not get them to pop. So his dad and uncle decided to show him how to do it. They brillantly took turns throwing handfuls on to each other's backs. Do not try to do this at home because it does hurt and does leave welts. That's my boys. It really funny because then Jacks started throwing them at Scott and got them to pop!