marc and michelle

Road Trip to Utah
June 30, 2011

Nancy and I loaded our kids into the van and headed to Utah for two weeks.  The road trip went surprisingly smoothly. The kids were relatively good.  We made very few stops. We did make a stop in Southern Utah at Grandma and Grandpa (Nancy's girls great grandparents) house, that was really great!  It gave the kids a chance to get out and run around, have a bathroom break, and eat some fresh fruit.  Bennett was certain that they were his grandparents too and when we got there he followed Ava and Elsa's lead and ran right to them yelling, Grandpa, Grandma! and giving them big hugs. :)   Funny boy.

Nancy and I enjoyed chatting and catching up on life, while the kids enjoyed sticker books,movies, books on tape, and coloring.  Luckily, the Johnson's share our love of Taco Bell and we stopped and got ourselves some for lunch. We made it in good time and really had fun.

We then seperated and went our seperate directions as Nancy and her girls met up with her mom and spent time with them, while we headed to Alpine for a few days and up to Park City for a family Reunion with Marc's family.  We really had a lot of fun and did a lot of great things.  We were sad to leave Marc at home over the 4th of July, but were excited that, that weekend turned into a mini family reunion for all of my siblings and parents.  It was fun to see everyone for a few days.

We were also able to celebrate (early) the three July 9th Birthday's, while we were all together.  Jackson loves sharing a birthday with Craig and Ryan.  And some how everyone ended up in the pool (on Jonathan's brithday celebration) a family tradition to throw the summer birthday kids into the pool.

We of course enjoyed some Cafe Rio.

And some fun Fireworks of the 4th of July.