July 24th is kind of a big deal, here, in the great state of Utah. It is a state holiday that celebrates the arrival of the Mormon pioneers to the Utah Valley. Depending on where you live, there are a ton of activities held to help you get into the pioneer spirit and remember the sacrifice made by them as well as learn a little bit about what their day to day life was like. Not being originally from Utah, this is a new one for us. It has been a lot of fun to find opportunities to celebrate this holiday with our family, and we will definitely be bringing it with us wherever we end up moving!
We headed over to Pioneer Village, just a few blocks away from our apartment, and completely FREE, where we got to watch a blacksmith make a spoon (which he let us keep!):
do some leather stamping:
See what a day of school would have been like for early pioneers:
Waits liked the chalkboards (and eating the chalk!):
And play some pioneer games:
Kyle showed the girls how to use stilts:
We couldn't believe that this was completely free for our entire family, and that they are open almost everyday and run completely off of volunteers and donations!
I have absolutely no pictures of the rest of our pioneer day activities, but they included these:
Soap carving (the favorite for our kids and all of the neighborhood kids!)
churning our own butter (using baby food jars and marbles)
a chili and cornbread picnic (that's authentic pioneer food, right?)
and will hopefully, in the future, also include:
and camping, complete with a campfire meal!!
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