Utah - The Rest of the Trip

With all of the festivities over you would have thought things would have slowed down, but not so. We managed to bounce around as much as possible, most days being at 3 or 4 places throughout the day. I don't have very many pics, which is disappointing. But I am going to get some from family, and when I do I may have to update this post. :)

Some of the things we did do: Lots of FAMILY! And lots of visiting and hanging out... and eating, BBQ's are the best! It was great! We got family pictures taken, which I am SUPER excited about! (And I will post when I get them!) Patrick and I got to go on a date, we saw Eclipse... we should have seen Grown Ups! :) But we had fun together just the two of us! We got to meet baby Morgan and play with the Facers! We made it over to the Stevensens to play too! The kids PLAYED... all day, every day! The boys had 4 sleep-overs! Which was exciting for them... and oh so restful for mom and dad! :) They got to go to the Dinosaur Museum with Grandma and Pops. (Pics to come of that too.) They got to swim and play a lot at Grandma & Papa's house... and they loved playing with their cousins, Sammy and Erica. (That's what the airplane is actually for!)

We also got to go to "Woody's Farm" to ride horses and play with dogs and chase chickens! We actually have a lot of pictures of that! :)

They love to ride!

Jackson did it all by himself!

Harrison just never stopped smiling! :)

So sweet... and SO tired!Loving the dogs! There were 7 of them, I think!Chasing chickens!I planned a surprise party for Patrick's 30th Birthday while we were in town with all of our family. Thanks to everyone who helped and came over! It turned out pretty good, we had a lot of fun, and he was very surprised! ...My camera died (rrrrr!) right before he walked out into the back yard! Seriously! But Pops got lots of pictures, so I will have to update this too! These are before the party started. Overall, it was a great trip! We were running on fumes a lot, and we tried really hard to see as many people as we could, but there never seems to be enough time! And leaving is always bitter-sweet. ...Saturday we made the rounds and said our goodbyes and Sunday morning, bright and early, we were off! We made it home with minimal drama, the kids did pretty good. ...It was a specific tire that gave us some trouble! ...In the middle of nowhere in 102 degrees! Luckily Patrick was driving, and we had a spare, and he was there to change it! Sadly, we were right under some sort of super power lines that were so hot Patrick got shocked every time he touched metal on the car! We made it to Flagstaff on the spare early enough to get new tires and get back on the road. The trip ended up taking 17.5 hours, which makes for a long day! The boys crashed in the car and didn't wake up until the next day, Reagan was done once we got to Phoenix, but she was a trooper. We are glad to be home, back on some sort of schedule and back in the swing of things. We love and miss everyone! Thanks for all of the fun!