Utah!

Yea I am finally posting, enjoy!LONG car ride antics...
Silly pit stops... and then...

We got to hang out with Grandpa and Grandma!

Fern got to enjoy playing with cousins, of course she LOVES holding babies, here she is with Renia!

We also got to meet Raimey, just a few days old! I love this picture!

How sweet is she!!

This is our crazy cousin shot, from 9 years old to a few days old!!

L-R, Garen, Leili, Fern, Renia, Ashton, Adara, Jake, Tahlia, Ransom, Riley, & Raimey! Whew!
We also got a fun evening with cousins Mitch, who was somewhere around Riley's age when Dan and I got married, and Ashley, who is just a bit over a year younger than Riley so they got along just fine!! :)

While we were up North we went to Temple square to see a few things, Mom & Dad, and Laura and her kids went with us! While we were there I got to meet up with Cherish and she got to meet Leili for the first time! Here are the three of us!

This is us at the end of the Confrence Center tour we took with Grandma & Grandpa. It was SOOOO HOT and I was melting with Leili snoozing in the sling!!

It was great to see you all!!

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After our fun we headed South...

And were greeted by these cheery cherries at Grandma's house!

My mom has connections and it just so happens that her good friend has a restored fire engine that was going to be in the parade, so grandma got us a ride! We had fun riding around town!!

Leili was surprised and so excited that grandma had a cat who liked her (our cats won't let Leili near them), here is Leili loven Stretch!

The main even of the trip was 4th of July, here is our little parade all decorated heading to the park!

Here is Leili in the walking race of the diaper derby, not racing. Not one step until after the race was called! Grandma and I tried everything!

Then there was the apples...

yes apples...

bobbing that is! Go grandpa!!

Wahoo Jake!

Even Fern!!

And Novella!

Aunt Mary even got talked into it!!

I have good pictures of Ryan and Riley bobbing too, but I'll have to fix them a bit first and well the computer (and my patience) are just not up for that right now! :)

Here are my sweet four all dressed up for the fourth! (Dan was in Rome, do you hear my violin it is really small!) And why it escaped us to get a cousin picture is beyond me, or even a group shot, oh well! :)

And of course here is Leili's first sparkler, she was not too sure of the bigger fireworks we set off, and slept through the BIG fireworks! :)

Back through the Virgin River Gorge!

Home again, home again, jiggity jog!