Shelley Spud Day

I like giving Joel and hard time about his high school mascot, a russet!  I love giving him a hard time about spud day!  I've been to my share of spud days, and honestly don't get the excitement over it.  Joel tells us about the "good ole days" and how spud day was a huge highlight in his life.  We like to hear about how a small town boy had a good time after all the spuds were harvested.   He would get out of school for a couple of weeks for "spud harvest" and work in the fields on combines and in the cellars.

The day is full of various festivities.  There  is a "spud run".  We have ran the 5k before and this year Coelton ran the 10k in 38 minutes.  They also have a half marathon! 
The festivities include a parade, free baked potatos and milk, vendors, fair food, spud pickin contest and a tug of war over mashed potatoes. 
Many of Joel's family come to Shelley just to attend spud day.  It's a fun way to gather and share a childhood memory with your family. 

Baby Ammon

Some of the sights you may see at spud day.

Taylor giving Chloe a ride on the segway.

We went to Grandma Hammer's house and ate our baked potato and free milk.  Grandma and Jill made funnel cakes for everyone!  Yum!!

We were also able to see Chase, who just returned from his mission in Iowa.  We attended his mission report on Sunday.  Afterwards we went to the middle school were Jill teaches home-ec.  She had her class room all set up to feed everyone.  I wished I had taken a picture of chase, he hasn't changed a bit.

Coelton came down from Rexburg with Chase and Paige who also attend BYU-I.  It was good to see him again.  We stayed at Julie's house in shelley on Friday night and then we stayed at the Hampton Inn on Saturday night.  We used one of our hundreds of free nights : )  I picked up Joel at the airport on our way to Shelley.  He had been gone for 11 days to England.  Poor guy had to get off an airplane after 12 hours and then drive in a car for 4.

Lance was hunting with Dad and Clint in the hills when his horse rolled on him.  He had to be life flighted out and found he had a broken pelvis.  He had surgery and stayed in the hospital for 3-4 days.  We were able to see him.

We all met in Idaho Falls Saturday night and attended a fun gym that Jill had reserved for just our family.  We enjoyed it a lot and topped it off with some yummy pizza.

Cade, Jace, Brysan and Caden

Joel holding Aiden, Jeremy's baby.