A Very Merry ABBA 24th of July Weekend!

This 24th of July weekend was full of tons of fun activities at my house. On the 24th my mom, sister and I went to the concert at the SCERA Shell. It was a group from Sweden who sang ABBA songs. It turned out to be a blast. We had such a fun time listening to the music and watching the interesting people around us. Before the group came out, they had last years SCERA Celebrity winner (the SCERA's version of American Idol) come out and sing a couple of songs. During one of her songs a guy got up and started disco dancing. It was so funny to watch that Whits got her camera out and taped it. We also had a group of 3 girls sitting in front of us (they had to be around 10-12 years old), they knew all of the ABBA songs and they were singing away and dancing the entire time. They entertained us more than anything else.














Waiting for the concert













Cori and Whits










Pulling faces for the camera













Having a blast!









They did an amazing tribute
to all the branches of the
Armed Forces!









The guy introducing themselves










The First Song










This guy made a "guest
appearance" he played with
the original ABBA group.












Whitney eating her first
thing since getting braces




On Friday my mom took the girls to go and see the movie Mama Mia! We all ended up falling in love with the movie... It was really cool to hear the songs that we had heard the night before at the concert in the movie. I would recommend this movie to everyone. It had us laughing throughout the whole thing! I have big plans to buy this movie the day it comes out on DVD. I ended up spending most of the rest of the day in my room watching movies that I had bought but hadn't had time to watch. Later on in the evening the kids came for the weekend...


On Saturday we spent most of the day outside with the kids. In the morning we took Ry and Lilly out into the backyard and Ry got into his swimming pool. After a few hours of being outside we went in for lunch and to put the kids down for a nap. They decided that they weren't tired and so we went up to BYU campus to the duck ponds, which is one of Ry's favorite places to go. We took lots of pictures and had fun feeding the ducks.... After getting home from the ducks we went right back into the pool for a while. What a relaxing day!









Dancing in the kitchen












Thomas the Train... Woot! Woot!












Rykert!












Lillykins!












Don't mess with us!









Playing in the pool









Getting squirted by Whits









Being attacked by Ry













The kids when we first got there









Lilly trying to chase the animals












I absolutely love little Lillykins









The cute little ducklings all nestled together












She really wanted to get down
and play with the ducks









Ry pulling faces



At the end of the day the kids went back inside to play. Poor Lilly ended up getting hit in the face accidentally by Ry's plastic baseball bat. Here are a few pictures of her poor eye right after it happened. Thankfully by the time it was time for her to go home you couldn't see a thing wrong with her eye. She actually handled it really well and didn't even cry that is until Grandma put some ice on her eye... Of course Ry wanted to know what was going on.














Has anyone else been having problems with all the smoke from the different fires this weekend?