Our Stake had our yearly Pioneer Day activity on Saturday. It was up by the Alatoona Dam. It was a really nice day. They had lots of activities to do, one of them was pulling handcarts. Nathan and AJ had a lot of fun riding in and pulling them. Jeff James gave us all a ride, before the boys decided to pull it themselves.
Chick-fil-a had their annual cow appreciation day, where if you dress like a cow, you get your meal for free! Nathan loves their chicken sandwich (with extra pickles!) but he did not want to go because he didn't want to dress like a cow (he said he would dress like a chicken though). I had some cow print in my sewing things from a failed Halloween costume a few years ago. We printed out ears from the Chick-fil-a web site and cut a hole in the material to make a cow poncho, then put eye black on their noses and headed out for dinner. We ended up paying $3.45 for our whole family to eat dinner (they counted the sign on Tessa as a costume too). We had a fun family night out for dinner.
Our Fourth of July was kind of boring this year. It rained the whole week before, and the rain didn't go away on the fourth (in fact it rained that whole week too). The city of Kennesaw does their firework show on the 3rd, but it was cancelled because of weather. Marietta cancelled the parade and fireworks, and Acworth also cancelled their fireworks spectacular. There was nothing to do except get wet in the rain. At least we had aunt Bonnie to play games with (she came over to spend the weekend with us since her family went to Ohio). We griled hamburgers and corn on the cob and then lit some fireworks before it started raining on us. Hopefully we will be able to go to the fireworks show when they reschedule it.
