Beautiful Utah

Natali headed to Provo for a week at EFY so the rest of us spent the week playing.  We went to Thanksgiving Point with the Castletons.

The kids loved digging for dinosaur bones and learning about fossils.

Mack and Andrew couldn't believe how long the little girls could spend in the little pretend town at the Curiosity Museum.  Magicians and Veterinarians hard at work.

The Petersens took us to some cool splash pads and playgrounds, the zoo, and swimming at a cousins house.  Lily loved their pool and made huge progress on her swimming.  We spend the evening of the 4th of July at the Real soccer game.

The game was so loud Lily and Emily tied their sweatshirts around their ears to block out the noise.  We all had a blast at the game and enjoyed the fireworks after wards.  Real scored three goals so all tickets were good for free haircuts at Great Clips.  The next day everyone got a much needed trim.  Not a bad deal.

We spent most of the week just enjoying the Peteresen's company and watching a lot of World Cup Soccer games.  We missed most of the knockout games while we were in Alaska so the boys made World Cup a priority in Utah.

We met the Pierce's up at The Weber where the kids played in the river and reservoir, went four wheeling and just hung out.  It was beautiful.  Then we headed back to Provo, visited Grandma Lula and stayed the night with Uncle Len.  The boys were awed by his muscles and strength.  He even taught Mack a few tips for his evening strengthening routine.  We picked Natali up Saturday morning bright and early and headed home.  It was a wonderful week.