Our trip to Utah July 2011

You don't appreciate how green it is until you don't have it anymore.

 In July we went home to Utah.   While we were there we saw both sides of the family.  It is so good to see family when you haven't seen them in such a long period of time!  One of the greatest blessings of living close to family is having your kids play with their cousins.  They missed their cousins like crazy!

Before we left we had to take a picture of Aspyn's stuffed animals that are on her bed because she was afraid that she would forget what they look like.  She was very sad when I told her that she couldn't take all of them because there wasn't enough room.

Our first stop was taking McKayla Biesinger to her grandpa's house, then we were off to drop off Sister King's bike to her parents house.  It works out nicely because her house is right around the corner from our house that we were renting out.

We stayed at my sister, Rachelle's house.

This is Sophy's sleeping position.

We had our birthday dinner celebration with my side of the family while we were there.  Pictures say a thousand words and I totally agree with that!

My siblings.  Head turn for my mom.  This is how she poses for pictures.

Tysh throwing Sophy up in the air.

Sophy's excited face!

Tacee playing with Lizzie and Aspyn

Megan, Daniel, and Robin

Ty playing with the ball

Eli would not smile or look at me to take his picture

Trent asking Eli to kiss him on his cheek

Sam, Izzie and Emma being silly

Tanen and Kylie

Rachelle helping Sophy hold Logan

Sophy hugging Ty

While we were home we wanted to go to the restaurant that we missed the most.  It was Leatherby's.  This place is fantastic and is always packed.  They give the BIGGEST portions of ice cream!  The best part of it is by far their hot fudge!!!

We went with Shanelle and Jeff

We happened to be there during the 24th of July.  We celebrate the day the Pioneers entered Utah. There were a lot of cool fireworks.  Aspyn and Sophy loved it!!!  Thanks Andrew and Rachelle.

Daddy loved getting into the action.  It involves fire.  What man wouldn't?

It was a great trip to visit my side of the family.  Next post is about the Buchanan family reunion!