Homemade Pioneer Celebration

Growing up in Utah with July 24th being even more celebrated than July 4th, we just can't let the day go by without some sort of commemoration and PARTY. So we created our own celebration. Our cousins the Crookstons and my sister's family, the Horrocks, came over for some homemade pioneer fun. Here are a few pictures from our party...

No party at the Love Shack would be complete without Troy's homemade rootbeer.

The kids shook jars of heavy whipping cream until they had made their own butter. (The dad's actually took over after about 2 minutes of this activity. The kids decided store bought butter was just fine.)

We had a costume - one pioneer bonnet.

Becky and Kevin Crookston with their son Will would not stop drinking the YUMMY homemade rootbeer. Becky is about to have a baby any minute.

We ate our homemade butter on homemade biscuits with honey (not homemade)

We sang, "Pioneer children sang as they walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked...Sam and Troy thought it was funny to drag out the "walked" part.

We played good old fashioned sheer strength pioneer games...

Troy won

Sam won

Not sure who wonWendy's sweet baby Emma slept.

And of course we all swam and ate bbq hamburgers and hotdogs. We figured the pioneer kids would have been thrilled to have a pool so we should all jump in (not much else to do outside when it is 110!)

Kevin and Becky might have to move sometime in the near future as his job may be changing. We have loved getting to know them and making them a part of our Yuma family.