Vacation to Utah

(Summer 2012) It has been 5 years since we've visited Utah.  It was sooo nice to get back there.  We had such a blast.  Here's a little summary...

1st.  Went to my wonderful cousins' wedding.  I love all my cousins...they are so fun to hang out with.  He married a beautiful girl...they are just so cute together.  The wedding, lunch, and reception were all so beautiful.  The bride's dad has his own band, so of course we rocked out and danced a ton. 

My sister and I rock'n out!

The kids met up with their cousins they never get to see.  They live in MD, but were staying in  UT while Jeff was away for 6 month.  Even though they haven't seen each other in a long time, they immediately hit if off and played so well with each other!  

There's the happy couple!

On Monday, my parents, Jana, Katie's family, and we went to the water park called "Cowabanga".  It was so much fun, there's a lot for little kids to do.  Chris never wanted to get out of the wave pool.  The kids could have stayed their all day.  I was so proud of Teya, she went down the scariest ride.  A really high tube that was completely dark the whole way down.  She said it was scary, but did it...and that's pretty good for Teya (good thing it was the first ride she tried-everything else was easy after that one!)

We visited Temple Square.  They have a new visitor center with a children's play area that the kids thought was really cool!  Of course seeing the huge temple and Christ image is always a treat!

 
Then off to BYU's campus!  We love that place...A LOT of great memories!  Here's the tunnel that Ben and I walked a billion times while we went there!

Of course the BEST highlight was that we got to watch a BYU football practice!  We felt pretty special because it's really hard to get in to watch a practice.  We were all sporting our BYU shirts!  Ben was  like a little boy on Christmas morning. :)  We love our team!!

At the end of our trip we visited my Grandma Taylor.  I love this lady.  She's still going strong...she can even play the piano still.  She' been my adopted grandma forever.  She even sends birthday cards to all of my kids and cousins.   She's so awesome.  We just love her so much!