Utah Trip Part 2

On Friday, Christie had a get-together at her house with Grandma Brewer and as many of her family as could come.  It was so great to see aunts and uncles and cousins that we hadn’t seen in a long time.  The kids had fun meeting their second cousins too!

 

Asher loved John’s beard!

 

We all love Grandma Brewer, and it was so fun to spend some time with her.

 

Saturday, we went bowling at Fat Cats.  The kids always love bowling, and they had a great time together.  Asher even had a fun time hanging out and watching everyone bowl.

     

James always stood like this with his hands behind his back to watch the ball go down the lane.

 

Asher getting some love from Grandma Malan!

     

James and Ames – good buddies!

That evening, Mark and Melanie had us over for dinner and to give us a tour of their new house.  They have an AMAZING backyard.  The kids had fun running around and chasing Shane, playing tag, and playing airplane. 

       

All the cousins: (except for Ewan . . . lots of boys!)

       

The next morning, we stayed for Ewan’s baby blessing before making the trek back home.  It was a nice trip, and we were so glad we could make it out there in the fall.  Can’t wait until our next time!

Utah Trip Fall 2013

In addition to attending General Conference on our trip to Utah, we also did a lot of other fun things.  Each day seemed packed with activities and people to see, but we also felt like we got some much-needed time to relax and spend time together as a family.  Christie was great and took the boys with her to the dinosaur park on Monday, to the nature center on Tuesday, and to visit some parks and eat lunch at McDonalds on Friday.  They always have a great time with Grandma!

       

We also had fun just hanging out around the house.

             

Besides Shane’s parents, we have so many family and friends that live in Utah!  We tried to visit a few of them while we were there.

We went to Provo to meet up with one of my best friends since 5th grade, Bethany.  It had been too long since we’d seen each other!  We also stopped by and saw Camille and Bryce’s place, and cute little Avery, and spent a few minutes at Jake and Stacey’s place after eating a delicious dinner at Shane’s Uncle Alan and Aunt Kim’s house.

   

We also met our good friends the Lovelands at Chuck E. Cheese, and the kids had a great time together as always.

       

General Conference

Since we were unable to go to Utah this summer with all of Asher’s surgery and recovery, we decided to go out this fall to stay with Shane’s family.  We thought it would be fun to coordinate our trip with General Conference so that Landon could go for his first time since turning eight.  We got tickets for the Sunday morning session, and Shane, Landon, Kent, Christie, and I all met my parents, Jake, and Camille and Bryce at the Conference Center.  Landon was excited to see where conference is, and especially to see the prophet.  We only had one stressful moment when he went to the bathroom and left his ticket in there.  He was pretty bummed because he wanted to keep his ticket to put in his journal, but then I told him he could have mine, and he was happy about that.