We started our vacation in Beaver, Utah for the 24th of July. My family always has a family reunion around that time. Once again the little hometown parades are the best. My kids enjoyed the floats and of course the large amounts of candy they collected. After the parade we headed over to the city park. Kasen entered a race they had for each age group and did fantastic. He one $1.00 and a lollipop. The kids played in bouncy houses, ate snow cones and enjoyed the play area at the park. Later that night we let off fireworks.
The next day we enjoyed our family reunion. It is always great to talk to family you haven't seen for the past year. My grandma's health has not been the best so I enjoyed talking with her and spending time with her. She is such a kind and funny person. I have so many great memories of Beaver and I always loved getting to stay with my grandma when I was younger. As we left Beaver we continued our trek over to Blanding, Utah to visit with our good friends Ian and Adrienne. By the way the drive was beautiful but long. It was really good to hang out with them.
Ian and Adrienne have two kids the same age as ours. The kids got a long great. The boys could not get enough of hunting and shooting games. One of the days we decided to go to Durango Colorado to ride a train. Little did we know the train was 3 1/2 hours one way going 10 miles per hour. 7 hours on a train was a little much, but the kids absolutely loved it..JPG)
Avery, Kasen, Jett and Tenli and a train worker. The boys enjoyed sticking there heads out the window looking for wildlife.
We had a two hour stop in Silverton where we grabbed some lunch and looked at some shops they had. You would have thought the kids had enough of trains, but they managed to find this one. Though the train was neat, it was way to long of a ride. We had made the comment that the train was not really for kids and our friend Ian had said," It is not a train for anybody" It was pretty funny. We left there house and drove to St. George and spent the night and then headed home. It was a great trip but I was tired of living out of a suitcase for 6 days. Total trip mileage: 1800 miles
Total driving hours: 25
4 comments:
Wow...that's a LOT of travel. all by land. ugghh...my feet would have been ballooned to the size of a basketball after all that! Sounds kind of relaxing though. You are looking great!
I don't thnink you guys could have cuter kids! I'm sure the 3rd will be no exception! I need to learn to blog better like you! I love it! Do you guys have a name for baby boy yet? How is this pegnancy for you? I know your others were rough.
What cute kids you have! I know it's taken me... oh, too long, to get back to you! But I use Picasa 3 to edit most of my pictures these days. It's super easy!
You look great! When are you due??
Tandy-
Your kids are super cute to! The doctors think they will induce around October 1. I am due with a boy. We are still having a hard time picking a name. Take care.
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