Oakley Pioneer Days

Well, sort of. I missed a lot of photo ops because I was having too much fun and forgot to take pictures. We got to leave on Wednesday because Steve took some time off. We got to Oakley late after about 4 potty breaks, feeding Ethan twice and grabbing some dinner... all for only a 3 hour long drive! But we were all happy to be going!

Thursday (the 24th) we played outside and enjoyed actually HAVING a yard to play in. After naptime we went up to the Oakley Swimming Pool and enjoyed swimming without worrying about germs!! Grandma Hardy(my mom) taught Jakob and Andy how to do the front crawl and Jakob learned to take breaths so he did awesome! Ashley wanted nothing to do with anyone but enjoyed playing by herself and diving for the toys we brought with us. Gavin went up and down the steps and said "no no no" when we tried to get him to do anything else! Ethan was a good boy and slept the whole time.

Friday morning was very exciting. We got up, got ready and everyone(all 5 of us kids and spouses plus 20 grandkids and of course my parents) piled into cars and headed off to Twin Falls Idaho. We had the opportunity to go through the Twin Falls Temple during its Open House. It was a wonderful experience going through with the whole family and getting to see each room! The kids did very well and enjoyed going through. Afterwards we went to the Stake Center and had a cookie and then went and got family pictures - all 34 of us!!! If you count, there are 32 but we have a little angel watching over us and one little one coming in October(My sister-in-law is expecting - not me!). Here is the picture of our family.


After the temple, we all went to Chili's and ate some good food! It took about 6 tables and 2 booths to fit us all in but it was a lot of fun and the waitress and waiters were great! We all went our separate ways and headed back to Oakley. Steve and I took our kids swimming again where they had a ball and learned some more swimming strokes. We played until Ethan decided it was time to leave!!

That night was Jonathan Nelson's (my nephew) 5th birthday party. He had a Batman party and all the kids dressed up in their superhero clothes. We had a pinata (which Kristen turned from Buzz Lightyear to a Batman - I'm highly impressed!!!!), pizza, cake and lots of presents. And some fireworks called "Party Hardy" that a friend of the family brought to us because they thought it was funny(as we're the Hardys...). It was a very fun night and we were all tired and ready for bed so we could start all over with a busy day the next day! Jonathan is the in the red shirt and cape. :)