Utah Trip 2013

It was wonderful being able to spend some time with family in Utah.  We especially love seeing our kids interact with their cousins.  We wish we lived closer so they could have that experience.  We'll take what we can get though.  We started our trip staying over at the Andal's in Vegas.  Emma just LOVES Annadele, so any excuse to get together is great.  We were lucky enough to have Aunt Melodee staying with us for a week and then she drove with us back to Utah.  She unfortunately, for us, will not be living with us after all, but we are excited for the opportunities that will come to her in Utah.  We made a quick stop to say hello to Grandma at her work which was fun.  We headed up to Northern Utah to spend a couple days with my parents.  We were able to see most of our family.  My poor mom was so stressed out with trying to get everything ready for us that we just ended up staying at the hanger.  It all worked out.  We were able to help Daniel out by watching his kids, and got some yummy Pizza Plus Pizza.  The next day Grandpa Larry took us all for an airplane ride and then watched the kids while Mike and I went and did sealings at the Brigham City Temple.  It was beautiful and I felt such a strong love and appreciation for my ancestors who settled around the area and through whom I have the gospel in my life.  Wonderful day.  So we had some craziness with my moms car keys, I misplaced them and so we finally just picked her up and brought her down with us and met up with Jackie.  We got to spend some time with Uncle Matt (Sharp) that night and the next day we spent with the Denos's in South Jordan and then Mommy was able to meet up with most of her sisters and Mom for dinner.  Unfortunately Grandma Marla didn't enjoy her dinner, but it was nice just being together.  Saturday was Tysons baptism and it was so nice being able to spend time with family.  It was a really nice day.  We were so proud of Tyson!  That night Mike's family had gotten together to play games while the Andals were in town and we got back in time to say hi and bye.  Sunday we spent with Mike's mom and sisters family.  It was a nice, relaxing day and the kids had a lot of fun playing together.  For Labor Day we got together with the Sharp family and went to the Provo Rec Center.  I wish I had some pictures from that day because it was a lot of fun.  We swam in their awesome swim area and then after lunch I took the girls to Manda's for a nap while Mike stayed and played with the boys.  It was perfect for both of us and Emma even fell asleep with me.  Score!  Everyone met up afterwards and we had dinner and then a family meeting to plan out future family reunions.  I was sad to have to leave the next day.  We were going to go to Thanksgiving point on our way out, but decided the cost wasn't worth the time we could spend there.  Someday we'll get the girls to the Dinosaur Museum.  On our way home we decided to go up Cedar City Canyon to see Cedar Breaks.  Mike had never been and I remember it being really beautiful from my highschool days.  We took some time out of traveling for a hike and it was nice to be in such a beautiful place.  Mike was in heaven.  We then made our way to the Andals, stopped in St. George for dinner and had the best waiter that we've had in a long time.  Anyway that was a very detailed travel log, but the point was, we had a great time and loved being with family.  Let's do it again sooner than later.:)