The Annual Utah Trip 09

A few weeks ago was our annual road trip to Utah. We had a great time visiting with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and my sisters. This post has lots of pictures, so if you're not family it will probably be boring!
Since I'm way behind in scrapbooking, this blog has become our family journal/scrapbook. It's fun to look back over the few years that I've been blogging and see things we've done. So it might be silly or boring for some you that read this, but at least I have some our lives documented! So here's the Utah trip!

Gotta love looking in the rear view mirror and seeing the kids sleeping with open mouths!

The outdoor Scera Shell theater in Orem, we saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Allie and Max

Hannah, Alexix, Savannah, McKenna, and Chloe

Charley's parents and us at the Jordan River Temple on a beautiful morning.

At the Salt Lake Temple- on the stairs 20 years later!

Savannah, Grace, Allie, and Max. We walked around Temple Square waiting for an outdoor concert to start at a park across the street.

Charley proves that you're never too old to ride the kiddie swings at Lagoon!

Three cousins sleep out on the trampoline- Jake, Jack, and Dakota

We went down to southern Utah and had so much fun! The temperature was about 20 degrees cooler than normal, so it was only in the upper 80's- perfect! Jumping off the rocks at Sand Hollow.

Ashley and Charley- Such a pretty place!

We did a night hike with the older kids in Zion by the full moon. It was so incredibly beautiful!

It's crazy to think that I used to sleep in this cave when I was a teenager working at Zion! I was much braver then.

At the top! It's looks out over the whole canyon!


The whole gang getting ready to hike the Narrows.

The brave ones that will continue up the river! Kirsten and I and the little ones stopped where the paved trail ends.

Beautiful Allie and the beautiful red mountains of Zion.

This was taken with my telephoto lens- but check out Mr. Red Speedo hiking along! No, it's not Charley.

No trip to Zion would be complete without going to the ghost town Grafton! It's so easy to scare the kids there! And this is another place we used to sleep out at when we worked there- so crazy!

Next of course we check out the cemetery!

Saying goodbye to Dad and Nina. (my parents)

Then saying goodbye to Granny and Grandpa. (Charley's parents)

We saw this billboard off the freeway near Lehi. Only fans of "The Office" will appreciate it! We had to turn around to go back and get a picture of it.