A July heatwave in Utah. It all turned out great!

Sloths, giraffes, tigers and bears. Sharks, and eels, and mantas were there. Saturn and Mars, the list just goes on. A movie about BUGS, and how they abound. Of course there was food, and plenty of it. How could there not be ~ when talking about this family? We had buffets, and picnics, Lion House pie, an even a BBQ cooked by a great guy. The gardens at Thanksgiving Point were a definite treat, but something even more spectacular was a ride to the top of Snowbird's high peak. Up at the top, overlooking the valley, we even found snow in this 100 degree haven. What would our trip be without family reunions, and trying to get pictures to capture the moment. And of course, a true highlight was touring the new Mt. Oquirrh temple....a house dedicated to the Lord here on the earth. It was a blessing to see and a very holy place to be. A week went by quickly, but we managed to do tons. Thanks to our families for helping this dream become another reality.

My family at the Mt. Oquirrh Temple

This is a spectacular place to be and see!
It was a true blessing to be able to tour the inside of this temple before it was dedicated.

Uncle Brooks with his baby, Bailey!

Mireesa and I were finally able to get together and hang out for a while. It's been way to long since we were able to catch up in person.

Another treat was having a family picnic with Kevin's side on Sunday.

Our kids loved catching up with all the cousins they hadn't seen in a while.

We had a nice visit at Kevin's mom's house before going over to the picnic.

Family Picture time....1st up are Allyn and Jillee

Kyler & Hannah

Hailey, Jordan & Dave

My sister Kelcee and brother Brooks.

The Ehrhart siblings.
Travis, Jillee, Brooks, Tami, & Kelcee

The Ehrhart/ Scott grandkids

My Aunt Nancy flew out from Florida. It's been years since I've seen her, and my kids adored her.

Kyler at one of the beautiful pools.

The Scott boys walking the gardens.

Gramma and Caleb

Jordan found all the good smelling plants and herbs and made sure my Aunt Nancy got a good whiff of all of them.

Thanksgiving Point Gardens.
This is a gorgeous place to visit if you've never been here.

Uncle Brooks got in on the action of helping create a dinosaur mountain.

We seem to hit the Museum of Ancient Life almost every time we go back to Utah. It's one of Caleb's favorites.

Mom with a few of her grandkids.

The top of Snowbird.
In a couple months this will be a skiers paradise.

My incredible parents....Thanks for another wonderful trip full of so many memories!

Here's proof of the snow we found. Even in the July heatwave, there were small patches left on the mountain.

Jordan loved the rope towers taking you from level 2 to level 3 of the Museum.

Building and constructing towers and houses at one of the museums newer exhibits.

Navy Pier's Children's Museum had a water room, that was of course a highlight for my boys.

We finished off our trip at Navy Pier in Chicago. It was a great week, and another fantastic trip.

July 4th is a homerun!

Happy 4th of July!

For the Fourth of July we went to a Whitecaps Baseball Game. I couldn't think of anything more all-American then baseball, stadium food, and fireworks to cap off a winning night. The boys had a blast, and I got some good reading time in between the innings (oh, all right....let's be honest here....reading time happened during the innings,too!)

Kevin officially wins the Husband of the Year award since Kevin made me run back into the house and bring along my latest Jodi Picoult read. He knows me well enough that after 3 or 4 innings I'm ready for a change of scenery. This was the perfect distraction for me.

Entertainment was a riot. These puffed-up, blown-up mascots, complete with wiggling tails kept coming out to dance, fight, wiggle, and groove. They changed costumes quite a few times and go the whole crowd on their feet dancing and hollering.


This is the thanks I get for purchasing baseball tickets.
I'll gladly take the credit!
Kyler was a little peeved at Jordan for only getting his mouth in the photo, but I thought little Jord did just fine.

Another Jordan photo.
I stole the camera back after this one.
I like to be behind the lens, not front and center.

A little Chicken Dance and Dinosaur Dancing is always fun at a baseball game!
Sorry to the lady behind us who kept getting memorialized in our pictures.
She'll just be an extension of my family for the moment.

A night of memories!

Great game Whitecaps.
Thanks for a great night!

On to another Note:

I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to bring myself to plug the Canon into the computer and download pictures. It only takes seconds (literally....today I counted to 5 and voila, picture download is complete!) I tend to psych myself out with anything that has to do with electronics. If an item requires me to push more than 2 buttons or if said item actually needs to be plugged into a wall in order to work, then obviously it will be too time consuming of a task for me to do. I tell myself I can't possibly find the time to sit to add another item to that long list of to-do's, but as with most things I proved myself wrong today. Here I am less than a minute later placing a check-mark next to item #1, and miracle of miracles, item #2 is about to be stamped DONE. I've officially blogged in the month of July. I'm on a roll today! DO you think this means I can now sit back, grab an icy diet coke, and relax the rest of the day! That sounds like a reward well deserved! 2 minutes of work = hours of nothing but bliss!

Happy Summer Days, all!