Foam, Fun and the Fourth of July

We drove to Soda Springs last week to spend some time with mom and dad Rigby over the 4th of July weekend. Jeff's handyman skills were put to work on an awesome kitchen project that Jeff's mom hatched. She has the best ideas for making a space work as well as decorating to perfection. She came up with plans for him to install a breakfast bar, desk area and pass through from the kitchen to the dining room. Jeff, his dad, and brother, Micah, all worked on it and it turned out awesome. The kitchen looks more spacious and it's way more functional too. Woo hoo!

This is the only picture I came away with of the project underway. Jeff is on the other side of the pass through. The breakfast bar went directly under the window to the left.

Since we were there over the 4th of July weekend, there were many festivities underway. One of which was a huge foam extravaganza for kids. What is this you ask? Well, the local firemen show up to the park with their hoses spraying a concoction of foam all over the place. It blankets the ground like snow and the kids (big and small) can run, splash, slide and get as crazy as they want to with it. Jeff took Lizette and Micah took his boys. Looks like fun!

Micah getting wet right along with his boys.

They couldn't decide if this was exactly their idea of fun.

Lizette: "You want me to do what? Run around in foam and get wet? Seriously?" :)

Jeff: "Come on! It will be fun, I promise"

She was finally convinced.

Of course, a trip to grandma and grandpa's house would not be complete without making cookies and having lots of fun reading and playing with grandma.

Lizette was especially shy during our visit and it took her a while to warm up to grandpa this time. I didn't manage to get any pictures snapped of the two of them this time, but I'm including one from their last visit to Boise so we can remember how much she loves snuggling with grandpa too!