Celebrating Pioneer Day

For those of you who are not familiar with the LDS church, each July 24th "Pioneer Day" is celebrated. This day memorializes all of the hardships that the early LDS settlers faced traveling west while being persecuted. I can remember as a young girl going to Primary activities and having big bbqs and pic nics with homemade "covered wagons". What fun we had!

Now it is my boys' turn to enjoy in the fun. This past Thursday their Primary had an activity. I had to work so Ian took the boys and they had a great time. I showed up for the last few moments and was bummed to find out Ian had forgotten the camera. However, we have a wonderful man in our ward who is always taking pictures and he was there and saved the day. Today at church there were bags of pictures for each family in the foyer. I was so excited especially to see pictures of Ian with the boys. We are missing Ian a lot this week as he is up in Wisconsin at Boy Scout Camp (I am sure having the time of his life:).

So, I wanted to take a few moments to scan in some of the pictures to show you. They are pictures of the boys in their "pioneer clothes", "driving" the wagon, pulling a handcart and listening to stories. The boys got to walk a trail and even talked about snake bites (in a couple of pictures Jacob is showing off the snake) They wore their purple bandanas for the rest of the day, even though Target!

I am so thankful that Ian is such a good daddy and just throws himself into whatever the boys are doing. Having him gone this week with less contact than even when he is on a ship is going to be trying. I have gotten spoiled seeing him every day and it makes me realize how hard it will be to go back to "sea" duty and how thankful I am that for now he is home.