Happy Shoot Down Day Dad!

8/24/1967

My dad was shoot down in one of these

 Over here

And was sent here...

For 5 1/2 years.

So glad you're home! It was an important day!

And Happy Birthday To You!

July = Fireworks

A little summary of our Pioneer weekend....

 

Lovin' the summer!

a Y opening experience

Saturday night we hiked the Y to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks from the mountain

I didn't know what I was getting myself into.

The online reviews called it an easy-intermediate hike

I disagree.

But all of the old people and little kids that kept flying by us probably would agree with the reviews.

We only made it to about switchback 9.

 

 Holly and Tod came with us.

T's aunt Katy met us there and beat us all up the mountain.

 But the view was awesome!

It wasn't the same as with Hill and taking jumping firework pictures,
but the fireworks were fun to see from the mountains!

Freedom is for those willing to defend it

This year we decided to run the Freedom 5k again.

We signed up with T's family and it was fun to have friends there.

 Last year, I about died doing the 5k. It was my first one ever and I didn't do so well. This year it was still hard, but I actually beat Tommy! I don't think he was very happy about that.

 But I paid for it...

I couldn't walk (I mean literally, we were worried I had messed up my legs) for 3 days.

And I lost a toe nail. I'm really bugged about the toe nail.

But it was a fun 4th of July!