cousin sleepover

We WERE thrilled that Uncle Josh and Aunt Rachel moved closer to us. We had to have a giant sleepover party to celebrate!

james and park

hayden, makayla, mcCall

ains

home finally

After nearly a month of being on vacation and 44+ hours of driving, we are finally home!
the dreaded drive

much needed cleaning (the bugs are HUGE in Montana)

boondocks

Jimmy and Hannah took us to Boondocks in Draper where they live. The kids had a blast doing go-carts, bumper boats, batting cages, arcade games, and laser tag. The kids were worn out at the end of the night. We are in love with little Sophie and Nora!
cute sophie

ainsley

sophie and ainsley

x2

ring around the rosie

aust, jeremy, jimmy...any bets on who won?

park

going into laser tag

dinosaur museum

One of the days we were in Utah I got to go to lunch with one of my bestest friends from college, Anna. While I was gone, Jeremy took the kids to the dinosur museum at Thanksgiving Point. Here are some of the pictures they took.
bones?

austin looks interested

girlies

all

friends

conference center

We toured the conference center while in Utah. I had never been there before and it was amazing. The kids loved looking at the pictures. Our tour guide was great and asked them a million questions, so they had to pay attention. He was Professor Price, who taught child development at BYU when I was there.

BYU

We were so excited to go back to BYU and show our kids around. Talk about memories! Campus has changed so much since we were there. Our kids were less than enthusiastic about walking from place to place and hearing story after story about each and every building. It was hot and they complained about every picture we took. Oh well, we loved it. Someday they will understand.
bowling at the wilkinson center...talk about cheap!

mcCall

aust

park

the crew

the tree of life

the indian

many hours spent here (not by me)

this is the place

On our way back to California, we spent a few days in Utah. After living in provo for 8 years at it totally feels like home to us. We had so much fun. There are so many things for families to do. Everyone is SO nice. We could totally live there! We stayed at Thanksgiving Point. One of the most fun things we did was go to "This is the Place". Here are a million pictures of everything we did there.
in front of the monument

another monument

hayden ironing...she loved it!

park, wheelbarrow

cally doing laundry...she kept wanting to come back to this house and do more

cute little house

ains riding a horse

hayd riding a horse

cally riding a horse...finally!

in a log house

panning for gold...this is ALL hayden wanted to do

train ride

train ride 2

family pics

It has been a long time since ALL of my family has been together. Trying to get 23 kids to smile and look at the camera at the same time was impossible. This is what we got.
our fam

kids

mcCall, sophie, avery, sadie

nelson family

the grandkids...

sibs

parade

we love the magrath parade!
so excited!

before

ainsley

parker got a bucketful of candy

hayden in the sack race

parker and avery in the sack race