Barn Dance

We hosted a barn dance for our ward (church group).  It was hot, but a lot of fun.  It was a pot luck event (the best idea ever) and some people brought dutch ovens with their dish, others brought other things, like salads and casseroles and homemade fresh ice cream from raw milk and agave - yummy.  Weston made a raspberry cobbler in our dutch oven, which I heard was good.

Our youth group came out a few days before and helped clean and decorate the barn.  It was fast.  I witnessed the saying, "Many hands make light work,"coming true before my eyes that evening.

The grub was delish, the dancin' was swangin' (and sweaty), as was the rope climbin', motorcycle riding, and everything else that went on. 

Zoe Girl grubbin' up

some of the awesome youth that helped clean and decorate and then came and danced the night away

a few more of those awesome youth.  i love the crossed eyes, selena.

"Cotton-eyed Joe"

Katie Bird - much more comfortable observing from a perch.

Bryan and Riley

Dawson on the rope 

Our totally cool bishop and his wife

My littlest 2 monkeys

Daniel and Callen - the 2 boys in Kate's church class

Timmer, Ezra's eye, and Afton

Emancipator on his motorbike 

Blake and Robb getting ready to ride

country kids - Ji Guy catching the wind

soon to be shirtless

Cute family - Clancy, Bryan, Jess, Mackenzie

Shawn with Kenny, Robb, and Charity's eyeballs

Air Mack

When the sun stopped heating the west door, and fell behind the mountain, we opened the door up and the breeze came right in.  It cooled down from 100 degrees to 80 degrees in no time.  It would've been nice to have had people stay longer, but the time was up.  The clean up crew came in and cleaned up faster than we set up.  Some of the teens stayed the longest doing dance tricks with the music still blaring (our friend has a great sound system that he brought and set up - see the speakers in the background?).  

Jeremy the lifter with Raymond and Sage

Woo...Raymond and Andrea...getting dizzy

It stays light for so long here in the Summer.  But I was exhausted and so ready to sit down and put my feet up.  This was actually the day that we got home from Great Grandpa's funeral.  We got home at 4 something and people began showing up around 5 something.  It was fun, though, and I was glad that everything was already set up and ready to go (for the most part).

Jiles started out with boots and a shirt.

After pretty much everyone left, Zoe discovered some cupcakes that a later-comer had brought.

And then Jiles discovered Zoe's discovery and partook as well.

Last picture of the night - after everyone had gone home

I left the banner up and the hay bales out.  The banner was just too pretty and took too long to make and put up to take down after just a few hours.  I did bring the blankets and afghans in, though.  And I found some white lights on sale to put up in there for next time; the other ones were our friends' lights.  I want to have another party/dance/something before it gets cold.  It's fun to decorate a barn.  Back to school bash?  Harvest celebration?  Something?  Maybe.