Summer Party!

This year Ammon's work party was up Parley's Canyon at Washington Park. The weather's been so crazy lately that we were wondering if we'd get rained out. At least it was nice and cool.

We got to the park and the kids immediately ran to the playground. The girl gets it in her head that she should be the only one allowed on the equipment and that if another kid shows up, she can't play there anymore. She's really struggling with this concept of sharing. The boy just doesn't care. He will play and play and play.

The District rented two bouncy houses, one for the little kids and one for bigger kids/adults. They had a lot of fun with this one too, but again if there were other kids on it at any time, Audrey didn't want to go near it.


Popcorn machine was a wise idea. This kept the kids occupied until dinner time.

And then the kids discovered the water fountain could be made into a water gun. We had a heck of a time pulling them away from here.

One picture you will not find here is that of the baking contest. This sounded fun to me, so I whipped up a brownie pie to enter. I baked it in a different dish rather than my usual glass dish because I didn't want to worry about it getting broken. When we got to the park, I took it over to the table to get it ready and sliced it up so people could taste it. It was undercooked in the middle. I. WAS. MORTIFIED. I left it on the table anyway, knowing it would be ignored, but I didn't know what to do with it otherwise. I will never use a metal pie tin to cook a brownie pie again.

Dinner was pretty tasty, though I was frustrated with the lack of fruit and veggies to complement it. (One cannot live on meat and potatoes forever.) A small storm rolled in just as we were all sitting down for dinner under the pavilion, so we were safe from the rain.

Thanks to the storm, we saw this on our way home:

There was one very excited little girl in the backseat.