Fourth Of July

It's a bird!

It's a plane!

Really it was the Skydiving team that jumped just above our heads.

UNO time while we wait for the fireworks.

Going to Hill Cumorah

Jared and I took the boys and Madison Camping this past weekend with Jared's sister Cami and her family. Maddie was crying a bit so Jared took her while Cami and I prepared dinner. When he came back with her she was sporting this new hairdo.

Here's Ethan just hanging out at Niagara Falls. He climbs anything and everything. He loved the mist of the falls. All the boys loved getting soaked by the falling drops of mist. I love this picture because it looks like Ethan climbed the fence at the falls and is about to fall in (yes, just like in Superman), but truly, Jared and I aren't that bad at parenting. If you look closely you can see the top of a tree.


This picture was taken from an observation area above another observation area that was closer to the falls. If he fell it wouldn't have been more than 3 feet.

The Falls are amazing. We enjoyed going on the Maid of the Mist boat ride and another great attaction called the Cave of Winds. The Latter gets you close to the falls on foot.

The Hill Cumorh Pagent was great this year. Ethan is throughly convinced that the ship that Nephi built to come to the promised land was indeed a Pirate ship. James was scared when the destruction took place just before the coimg of Christ to the Americas. He was screaming until Christ appeared and restored peace.

We walked around at the pagent and found many characters walking around. We were about to head back to our seats when lo and behold we saw Joseph Smith. Our Joseph was so excited. He kept saying "I'm Joseph too! I was named after you." Joseph has wanted to read the Doctrine and Covenants since.

It was a great trip. Aunt Cami, Uncle Dom and their two girls, Kristen and Amanda, helped us out so much. I don't know that we would have made it through the weekend without them. Hope you enjoyed the insights into our trip.

Joseph's Climbing the Walls

Joseph chose to have his 7th Birthday party at a place called The Gravity Vault. It's a rock climbing place that is amazing. Joe has been there a few times with Jared. He took to it right away. I guess he go sick of climbing our walls (literally). He's pretty good. I was amazed at how fast he moves up the walls.
Jared trained to be able to spot joseph on his climbs. Joe is usually nervous to try something like this. It's great watching the two of them enjoying this together.