Pionner Day Celebration

I love small towns, never thought I would. But they are so friendly and you can do so much together. This weekend we celebrated pioneer day. I never celebrated is much before moving to Idaho. I knew about it and remember vaguely having pioneer day activity in Primary when I was younger but never realized what a big deal it was until moving up here. I imagine Utah has huge celebrations through out the state since the pioneers first settled in Utah before making their way up to Idaho.

St. Anthony always made a huge week long celebration out of the event. It was looked forward to every year. We had a community play, rodeos, bake sale, parade, neighborhood fireworks and BBQ’s with friends. It was a time of year we always looked forward too. Even last year after moving to Iona we still headed up to St. Anthony to be with friends and celebrate the pioneer heritage. This year however we decided to stay in Iona and enjoy their celebration, which was just as fun. They had a dinner and free movie in the park Friday night (which we missed). Saturday was a breakfast and then there were booths full of games and activities for the kids. They had a car show and free fried chicken dinner followed by a hand cart trek around the park for the kids topped off with a community talent show. It was a fun day.

The kids loved the train ride that went around the park.

A friend of ours is starting a wood fired pizza catering business. He set up a booth and let the Scout's sell pizzas as a fundrasier to pay for Scout Camp. They did pretty good and the pizza's are so good!

Enjoying cotton candy

Enjoying a cupcake.

Savannah was the first to win a cupcake on the cake walk. RJ tried four times before he got one.The kids under 8 getting ready to catch a pig to win a prize.

This pig was supposed to be greased, but it wasn't and I am sure the parents were a little thankful not to have their kids covered in grease.

Here is the crowd at the big dinner. From far away it was hard to tell but there was lots of people getting their free meal.

RJ is on the blue firemen pole in the middle (wearing a cowboy hat). He was so excited that he was finally able to go down it without help.

The hand cart trek around the park.

The older kids got some practice on how is might have been like to pull those hand carts across the plains, the younger kids enjoyed the ride.