Our 4th of July

I'm a little late in posting this, but still wanted to report on last weekend's festivities. We started the holiday early in the morning for the annual Freedom Run in Provo. Duncan ran the 5k and Chloe and I did the 1-miler. We all got finisher medals and a t-shirt. While waiting to start the one-mile race, I saw an old family friend, Cristen Taylor, and some of her children. It was fun to catch up with her for a few minutes. Here's the kiddie race getting started.

Duncan finishing the 5k.

Chloe tired after the race.

Chloe excited about her medal.

After the morning exercise, we went home to meet Duncan's dad, who arrived from Pocatello around noon. Not one to sit idle, he wanted us to put him to work; so that's what we did! He and Duncan re-roofed a shed in our back yard...

...then scraped and painted it...

...and painted it some more...

...and fixed the doors on it. (By the way, the gigantic satellite dish was already in the yard when we bought the house.)

It looked pretty good when they were done. Thanks, Duncan and Paul for all your hard work!

They wrapped up the day's work at about 8 p.m. and we had a little bar-b-que dinner. I tried roasting corn on the cob in the husk in the oven instead of shucking it and boiling it, and it was sooooo good (350 degrees for 30 minutes--so easy). Later, we watched a few fireworks from our living room windows.