Pioneer Day, Friday 24 July 2009

On Friday 24 July, Utah celebrates "Pioneer Day" as a holiday. It was on 24 July 1847 that the first group of Mormon Pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley to settle there. Vance's children have pioneer heritage on both of their parents sides of the family. It was one of their mother's ancestors who was asked to settle take a group of people from Salt Lake City in 1851 to settle the Parowan, Utah area. That was why we attended the Youth Rodeo in Parowan, Utah.

Here is a photo of some of us sitting on the bleachers to watch some of the events. Chris also has a blog site and you will be able to see more of the reunion activities that were available. The blog site is http://davidgibsonfamily.blogspot.com/ Enjoy seeing more of the Reunion there.



















Chris's youngest son, Bryson, decided that he would enter the Mutton Busting competition. Breaking in a horst is called "Bronc Busting", this is the sheep version of that.

That evening we had a barbeque and here are some photos that event.

























The hot dog that Renae is eating is nearly bigger than she is.



Of couse grandma or great grandma had to take some more photos of that event.

Late, when it got really good and dark,the young folk went to Cedar City to let off and watch some good fireworks. Vance and I stayed home and went to bed early, like good grandparents.