Pioneer Spirit

Today was Pioneer Day for our Stake and the kids had fun doing all of the various activities. There was cotton candy, Max and Jesse had some for the first time, a dunk tank (Max and Jesse both got to try to dunk Damien and they succeeded), there was kettle corn, a yummy pancake breakfast, and waterslides. All three participated in the parade. Thanks to some research my family has done, I was able to include a little bit of family history info. on our entry to the Primary Children's parade. It was so neat to read about my family's history and that I had ancestors that were pioneers and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley. Another of my ancestors on my mother's side Daniel Garn, was an amazing man, while reading through some of the history about him I found out that he was one of the first to be baptized into the Church in the year 1830. He was baptized by Hyrum Smith and confirmed by Peter Whitmer. Some of the other things I learned was that he was a warden of the Utah State Territorial Penitentiary (must have been a tough guy, but had a strong testimony), opened the first Mormon Church in Hamburg, Germany, lead 484 emigrants, and converts across the plains to Utah, he was married and sealed by Brigham Young, and served for a time as Joseph Smith's bodyguard. Soo amazing! His story as well as the many unwritten stories of my ancestors. So today we celebrated our heritage, and what a wonderful one we have, I look forward to meeting these courageous individuals some day. Wonder what my posterity will say about me?

Here's Michael and I in the photo booth that they had at Pioneer day. I think the pics came out good. Michael said while looking at the pictures, "We adore eachother." I think so :)

Damien was barefoot in the parade, like some Pioneers probably were along the trail. 20 minutes later.....Cotton Candy Here's Damien and Jesse on the very WILD waterslide

Here is Max and Jesse having fun trying to dunk their big brother