Delinquent Blogger/ Utah trip

I haven't posted since May. I know I should go back and finish our trip to the Olympics and everything else that happened in May and June, but that would take way too much time which is in short order. The summer is whizzing by before my very eyes. So I will bid farewell to the lovely months of May and June and fast forward to the present: July 2009.

We just got back from a wonderful trip to Utah. We spent 10 days visiting Rob's family and some of my family. We had such a great time. Gideon took his first airplane ride! Rob and I were pleasantly surprised at how well the boys did on the flight. I bought a special airplane snack and a sticker activity book for Jasper. Those two things kept him busy the entire two hours. It worked out perfectly.





Rob's sister Kim picked us up at the airport and we went straight to Rob's sister Kris's house in Bountiful to help her move. I'm not sure on all the details, but they had been trying to negotiate the buying and closing of a particular house for quite some time and everything all worked out last minute and they had to move very quickly. We had a good time. Rob did some moving, arranging, vacuuming, mopping, and sweeping. I mostly entertained the kiddos (Kris has three and twin boys on the way!!).



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We got to spend the night with Lisa and Taylor for the first two nights we were there. Sunday, we went to church with the Halversons and then took a nice walk around their neighborhood and looked at plants and landscaping ideas for Lisa. Sunday evening we had a big family dinner with the Egberts. Gideon got to meet his grandpa and grandma Egbert!



Monday was Lagoon day! We went with Kim and the Brooks. We were a little worried that Jasper wasn't going to be to keen on the fast, bumpy, somewhat scary rides, but he LOVED it! We totally got our money's worth. Jonah was such a sweet cousin and pal to Jasper and took him on a ton of the kiddie rides. It was so great!















Tuesday was Scera swimming pool day in Orem. We went to this pool last summer and had such a good time. We had Cara and her family, Dave and his kids, Kim, Mike, the Brooks kids, and us all there. It was really fun, but got a little cloudy and windy - thus chilly - in the middle of the fun.





Wednesday we went camping up little cottonwood canyon to Tanner Flats. It was a perfect spot for the family. Lisa and Taylor came up and had tin foil dinners with us too. I don't actually have any pictures of camping and rock climbing. I do have a picture of Kim and Gid at Quiznos on the way up to camping-



So, the one thing I really, really wanted to do while in Utah was go to the temple. We hadn't been to an endowment session since before Gid was born and I had been really looking forward to it. Friday morning Rob and I drove up to the Provo Temple only to find that it was closed. So we drove to American Fork to the Mount Timpanogos Temple. It felt wonderful to be in the temple again. Larry gave us some family names to do. We had to wait in line for about an hour to get into a session since there were so many people at the temple. We almost had to wait longer until my mother instincts kicked in and I requested as a nursing mother to squeeze into an earlier session.

On Saturday, Jonah got baptized! Hooray Jonah!!!