Spring Break part 1

I recently suddenly realized that this spring break might be the last time that I would feel like going anywhere for quite some time, so on the first day of spring break, which also happened to be my birthday, we all piled into the car and headed for Utah with a camper -borrowed from my friend Amber -trailing behind us.

Our first plan of action was to visit family members, temple square, a dinosaur park and listen to General Conference...which we did:

First stop was the dinosaur park and museum:

A display of robotic dinosaurs that actually took steps!

We ran into the Hoy family, while there, who used to be in the same ward as us back in Idaho.  We hadn't seen them for about six years and were surprised to see how their family had grown! Sylvia and I are both due with #7 at the end of August.  It's a small world!!

There were life-size dinosaurs of all kinds scattered throughout the park that the younger kids found particularly fascinating

Then we stopped off and saw David and Kelley Gee and their kids and also got a tour of their nice, new house. This was the only picture I have to document that - Maddie with Alison, who is exactly one year younger and has passed her up! (And Maddie's tall for her age!!)

The next day we started out from Shawn's sister Jodi's house and took the frontrunner to SLC to visit temple square:

Abe was pretty excited about riding the train!!

 

That evening we went to see my cousins David and Kellie Knowles and their family - Dave and Kellie took Shawn and I to dinner and then we stayed and visited for awhile.  Once again, I was negligent about using my camera. (arg!) I loved visiting all these people that we love in Utah!

It was so great spending time with this awesome family, too; they are so much fun - we stayed up way too late both nights that we were there and they spoiled us rotten! Later on, when things weren't going too well on our camp-out, our little hopefuls kept saying, "do you think we can go back to the Grover's house?"

sis- in- law Jodi, husband Evan, and kids L-r: Gracie, Hannah, Adelle, Sander and Eden

Girl cousins l-r: Hannah, Kamille, Gracie, Adelle, Madeline and Isabelle

Boy cousins (plus Hannah:) tallest to shortest: Caden, Sander, Nolan and Abram (showing off his little watermelon:) I promise he didn't get that idea from any pictures he's seen me posing for!!