The week after Tony left...

The week after Tony left we...

Went for a walk on the new canal road...it was weird...and paved...and hot.

Got my hair done

Found a mysterious man taped by my bed. Thanks Sierra ;)...Sorry, Tony (hehehe)

Met new baby, Penelope (born June 4). We love her.

Had Liam's birthday bash...including a new bike! (It was fun to get home... :))

Pretended to be dragons at Brad and Ashley's house

Couldn't get enough of ridiculously adorable and chunky Zoe.

Killed everyone at cards (Kira, Mom(Grammy), Ashley, Brad, Eddie, Wendy)

And bottled super, delicious jam. 1/3 of which didn't set up right so it made super, delicious syrup. Seriously sooooo good. 

Hikes

The first week we were in Utah we went on a lot of hikes, so I decided to compact them all into one post. :)

Timpanogos Cave

First we went to Timp cave. I hadn't been there since I was a teen, so it was fun to be able to go again. 

The kids were troopers!! They made it the whole way, and we didn't have to carry any of them until the very top when Fox fell asleep in the cave and slept through the whole tour :). But once we were out he woke up and walked all the way back down. 

Battlecreek Falls 

Next we headed up to Battlecreek Falls. It was just as good as we remembered it, except we wished we would have brought our repelling gear again and repelled down the waterfall. :)

Cascade Springs

Lastly, the day before Tony headed back to Iowa, we took a stroll around Cascade Springs. This was an excellent "Iowa" hike, because there were not many hills and most of it was paved ;), but it did have some beautiful scenery. 

Utah Trip 2013

Lets start at the very beginning, a very good place to start

 (bonus points for who can name the song)

So be ready for a smorgasbord  of post about Utah. I just uploaded 300+ picture between my phone and camera...it's gonna be crazy. 

So I figure I should write out some of the details of our trip, because when I tried to remember when or how long we were in Utah last time, it took me forever to figure it out. So-

6 1/2 weeks in Utah 

(May 25-July 8th)

We left a week and before the kids got out of school...oops (hehehe)

We traveled 3000+ miles (at least thats what our odometer says)

Tony flew home June 3 and then back July 3

We took 2 days to drive to Utah (first day we only made it to Lincoln, NE)

and one day to drive home (19 hours...it was a long day)

We had birthdays (one was literally a birth), Strawberry days, cousin sleep overs, zoo trips, 4th of July, a baptism, and more (all of which will be coming to the blog shortly)

We loved every minute of it, and would do it all over again!!

Fox helping Dad get the car ready

packed and ready to go

 I pretty much have the coolest husband who wears double glasses :)

Ledges State Park

It was warm today. Like this warm.

(Remember how the last time I posted...like a week and a half ago...it was snowing? What the?)

So after the kids got out of school we headed to a state park about a 1/2 an hour away to play in the water!

Tony finished school last Friday, so he's been able to hang out at home with us occasionally, which has been awesome!! :)

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Your welcome for pictures of my adorable kids, especially the one with his crack hanging out. :) And for the pictures of my can't-decide-if-I'm-fat-or-pregnant belly. Feel lucky.

Oh, and this is my 300th post...who knew?

May 2

It's May 2. It has snowed all day today and is suppose to continue until tomorrow. You know what comes after May don't you? June. And I would say that most people consider June as a summer month. So what the heck is it doing snowing (and not just a little snow) in May?! It was 80 degrees two days ago. Something isn't right here...