4th of July - Take me out to the ball game...

PLLLAAAAAAAYYYYYY BALL!!!!!!

We celebrated the 4th this year by doing the most American thing one could think of...we went to a baseball game. The Salt Lake Bees played the Tucson Sidewinders. The Bees lost the game, but it was really fun, and it was super crowded.

As you can see, one of the best things about a baseball game is the dogs. Camille's Dad and Sister are showing the Chicago dogs that we ate. As Adam ate his, he covered his heart and slowly sang, "God bless the USA"
A close up of the goodness. Doesn't this picture just make you want to sing, "I'm proud to be an American."It was so incredibly hot at the game. When we got out of the car the radio said it was 103 degrees. Here is Adam enjoying a snow cone and trying to cool off. There were so many people at the game that Camille had to wait in line for almost 45 minutes. But Adam saluted her efforts by showing his red tongue.
Late in the 9th inning the game was real close. Adam was on the edge of his seat and decided it was rally cap time. If you look just off Adam's nose you can see that Dennis, Camille's Dad, is also on the edge of his seat, just no rally cap.
Camille failed to rally the cap as well...totally lame!!The fireworks after the game were done very well. They were made even better with the background music of Adam's favorite carooner, Neil Diamond, singing "Keep coming to America, Today!!"The fireworks were also nice becuase the weather had cooled off a bit and we weren't so sweaty.On Sunday after the 4th we did a little dutch oven cooking with Adam's family. We were going to take a lot of pictures, but shortly after this one was taken, it rained really hard. We cooked some chicken, spuds, and cobbler (despite the rain). If you look real close you can see how red Adam's face was. He was so hot trying to get all the ovens off the fire and back in. It was still a very fun day and a great 4th.

Low Family Reunion

Every few years Camille's family (Camille's Mom's side) has a big family reunion in Smithfield, Utah. Unfortunatley in years past Adam has not been able to attend because of school, but this year he was able to join in all the fun. We started off by arriving Friday night and having a 1950's style dinner (Spam, tuna casserole, Jello, and biscuits). After dinner we played a few trivia games about the Low family. Adam doesn't really know that side of the family and so he was the host and read all the questions. Later that evening all the kids and some of the adults played "kick the can." Adam and Camille's older cousins all bragged about good they were at kick the can, but in the end, they were destroyed by the superior children (it didn't help that Adam didn't know most of their names).

Here is Uncle Cam and Cousin Brooke enjoying dessert and gearing up for the Trivia games. There were two different types of cake and graham crackers with frosting. Adam ate like 12 of each and could not run without almost puking; yet, another reason he lost badly at kick the can.
The Low family enjoying some soccer and games after dinner.
Sisters and Cousins. The two on the ends are sisters and the two in the middle are sisters, but they are all cousins. Man, that was confusing. The Zollinger's, Camille's cousins are pictured, came from California to enjoy the Low family reunion.
The next morning Adam, Uncle Cam, Aunt Lez, Grandpa Dale, and others helped cook breakfast. Adam is an expert egg maker. Here you can see his egg making face. You don't mess with a good egg man!! Uncle Cam (over Adam's right shoulder) was cooking enormous pieces of bacon. Grandpa Dale was on Pancake duty. Aunt Lez (who has her side on the left of Adam) was running all over trying to keep things on the table.
After breakfast, Camille's mom and Uncle Cam created a Road Rally. We were seperated into teams and were to follow clues around Smithfield (similar to "The Amazing Race"). Adam didn't know a single clue, but made many jokes and had fun watching Camille's Uncle Randy think way too hard about where stuff was. Camille's team got lost, picked some strawberry's, and finally finished in second to last. Camille's Dad and Grandpa Dale had all the kids on their team and end up playing at the park most of the time...they finished dead last (and by dead last, I mean like 35 minutes after everyone else). After the Road Rally we all sat around, talked, ate, and had a big water fight. What a great family reunion!! Way to go Low!!