Utah Trip {Day Six}

I've really been wanting to condense the blog entries on this trip. I mean, its starting to bore me and I'm the one who was there. So, I apologize if any of you are bored with the trip, but I had to leave this day to blog by itself. This was a really great day for two reasons.

1- I got to have lunch with my ladies!!! (I'll explain later).


2-I got to go to the temple open house with my family. Its not everyday you get to stand in the House of the Lord (although not dedicated yet) with your WHOLE family. Well, some of you might have had that experience, but my kids are little. So, this was great!

Lunch. I escaped away from my sweet hubby and children to have lunch with Jess, Jan, Jaye, Jill, Rach, Jen, Jody, Marsha, Julie and Mandy (we MISSED you Sarah!!).
It was SOOOOO great to all be together, just like old times. Funny thing is, most of us live in Cali. Really the only ones from the group that are from Utah are Jess, Marsha, Julie and Mandy. It was really crazy that we were all in Utah at the same time, so we thought it would be a great opportunity to meet up with the Utah ladies and have lunch. It was incredibly great. I really, really wish we had taken a picture!
It made me sooo happy. Sigh. Did I mention that it made me happy??
It helped that the food was incredibly delicious too(thanks Jan and Jess!). Thanks Jess for being the hostess with the mostess, even when you didn't feel the greatest. You're amazing.

Temple. We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House that night. We went with Kelly and Jody and families. What can I say? Its beautiful. The spirit was strong. Except for when my 5 year old son decided he was done and started throwing a fit in the middle of the tour. But, we won't talk about that. No, we won't. (Again, remember the PMS happening!) This is the one and only picture of my family in front of the temple. Not the greatest, but I'll keep it.

All of the cousins that came on the tour with us (we missed Chad's and Todd's families). Look at J's face. Does that look like the face of a child who would throw a temper tantrum inside the temple? Almost angelic...but, not quite!!

This is them being goofy. Or should I say, being themselves!

While I was at lunch with the ladies, Brian took our kids and a niece hiking for a few hours. They hiked up to a waterfall that was close by Kelly's house. Isn't it pretty?? They had a blast and told me all about it when I got back.

We ended the day back at Bob's house for some dinner. This time Bob was back in town and so we got the chance to visit with him some more too!

Utah Trip {Day Three}

I'm slacking in my trip posts. I'm finding myself so busy trying to keep up with our apricot trees, everything else is going by the way side for a bit.
Anyhow, Monday the 15th was day three. We woke up early and headed out without S, but with 2 of my nephews, to hike up to the Timp Caves.
This picture is the one you've all been waiting for, I'm sure! (admit it, you were!) This is the "heart" of Timpanogas, in all her glory...

Here's a shot of Brian with the kids. My two nephews there are a hoot! We had fun chasing them (quite literally) up the mountain, and back down again! Its about 3 miles round trip. All uphill the way there, and, you guessed it, all down hill on the way back. The kids were troopers!

On the way up the trail, you pass through some little tunnels like this. Kind of fun!

Monday night, we all went up the canyon for a BBQ picnic. It was fun to spend more time together with Jody and her kids, Kelly and her family, and Todd and his family. We were really missing Chad and his family though! This is a shot of S with 2 of her cousins that are her age.

These two are inseparable- BFF's! We are lucky they live so close to us, back in Cali!

B and some cousins her age tearing it up in the sand volley ball pit. NICE!

Our family after or delicious BBQ dinner. We had a fun night visiting and going for an almost night hike! Thanks to big Mike for showing us the way!

I'm still learning this whole picture upload thing. So, I'll post pictures of other family's as their own post. Its just not worth starting over again!