Utah: playing

Here are some random pictures while playing at Grandma's.

As mentioned before baby Ben was the star of the party!

Eve and Dane LOVED Milo - a little too much! They did a great job taking him on walks though.

Grandma got this bead crafting thing for the little girls to do and my older kids LOVED it.  They spent hours and hours making bead designs.  It was pretty cute.

We had a glorious Sunday morning breakfast.

Tired Daddy!

Madison fell in love with Lottie. 

Game night!

We went to Mikey's baseball game one night.

We went and visited Grandma and Grandpa Brown.  Noah spent some time with their record player.

And Eve got Lu-lu-ed.  And the boys cleaned off the deck and all the patio furniture

One night the kids slept on the tramp.

One evening all the kids under 8 spent about 2 hours making a giant spider web all throughout the front and back yard.  I am so mad I didn't take more pictures of the end product.  It was EPIC!!  

We ate our weight in ice cream.

Played plenty of yard games.

jumped

And of course made smores.

One night I snuck away after everyone was asleep and met up with some old friends.  These are the triplets.  Well... 2 of them anyways, Alyse lives in California but we did facetime her for about a half hour.  They are some of the dearest people to me.  It is weird because i haven't seen or talked to them in well over a decade.  But I love them deep in my bones, and I know they love me too.  Give us a little grace, this picture was taken at 1 in the morning and none of us have stayed up that late in years.  We are all busy moms with tons of kids and are serving God to the best of our ability.  

Utah: Baptisms

Several months before our Utah trip I tried to make baptism appointments for the kids to do with their cousins.  Getting a baptism appointment in Utah is still like winning the lottery.  It was tough.  We really wanted a temple they hadn't been to, but the only thing I could find was Draper.  But it was still wonderful.

The crew (plus eddie)

It was a heavenly night.