The weekend of crazy hectic fun!

So we had a fun filled weekend. We were able to go down to the Manti Pageant on Friday night with two of our good friends, Josh and Michelle. And Josh's cousin lives in Ephraim and her family was all in the pageant, so that was fun. We camped out in her backyard on Friday night after she filled us with root beer floats and kept us up until 1:30.
We woke up Saturday morning about 9am when we no longer could sleep because the sun was beating down on us. We went inside and Kristi had made us breakfast. Wonderful eggs and toast, and she was attempting to make hashbrowns which didn't turn out! Oh well.
We left, and on the drive home Josh decided we would stop in Fairview and go to their little museum...which was a little po-dunk, but actually was pretty neat. They had history of the town and surrounding area, they had artistry from people who live around there, rocks that had been found in utah (rare...and not so rare), and really old, really neat newspaper articles.
The newspaper articles were my favorite. My favorite newspaper article was the one that talked about the lady who had 12 of her sons in the service (different branches of the military) all at the same time, anywhere from ages 22-38. And she had two more sons that she would also send out. I thought that was really neat...14 boys in all, all her sons...and all were serving or going to serve our country! Talk about neat! WOW!
Then we drove on and stopped by the side of the road. Now you will know what I am talking about here if you have ever driven from the north, down to Manti. There is a swamp, and houses that are half sunk in the mud. Yeah, that use to be a town called Thistle. Of course my sweet hubby, Richard, knew all about it, and Josh just gobbled it up! So we stopped and took pictures next to that half sunken houses! :) What joy!
AND...of course Richard started talking about a dam and all this stuff and Josh had to find it. So we went off-roading and found ourselves at a shooting range...where we were not suppose to be! :) eeek! We were asked to leave, unless of course we wanted to sign a waiver and do some shooting...no thanks! Not now!
So we got home and as we were unpacking Josh found the marshmellow guns that he had forgotten to get out while we were in Manti. So we had marshmellow wars, Richard, Josh, Michelle and I, around a few buildings in our housing community. So much fun! Richard and I are definitely making marshmellow guns for ourselves! YEAY!
After Josh and Michelle left, we took everything in and got ready to go swimming with Mariah and Luke at Alta Apt. and it was so much fun. We swam for a couple of hours, playing basketball and racing up and down the pool. Then we got ready at our friends apartments and went to Target! We ate at the little eatery and got a wedding card, and found our way to our friends wedding reception. We saw a lot of old friends there, so that was fun! Stayed for about an hour then made our way home. It was about 8:30 by the time we got home. Mariah and Luke met us there and we went to see GET SMART! And we really liked it.
It was a lot better than we expected...I had gotten some negative reviews from friends, so had my mind set that it wasn't going to be that great! It was wonderful...at least Richard, Luke and I thought so...Mariah? well...maybe not so much!