Utah

In between Mother's and Father's Day, Cannon and I went to Utah for two weeks (Ryan went to Minnesota and Wisconsin).  We had wonderful adventures and the weather was perfect! 

Before our trip Cannon kept telling me that he was going to play with Kennedi in the snow.  I told him that all the snow may be melted by the time we got there, but he was adamant about it!  Luckily for him, his wish came true!  Our first real day there we drove up the canyon until we found some snow!

Yes you may eat the snow and walk in it barefoot!

I wish we had more time to play in the snow and I wish we had warmer clothes!

We did do lots of other fun things.  Cannon helped Uncle Jesse mow Nana's lawn:

We did smoke balls:

Merci and I took the kids to the zoo one day.  Our favorite part was watching the seals and sea lions!



He loved this elephant because it would unexpectedly shoot out water!



Cannon and Kennedi got to spend lots of time together!  Everyday they played a make believe game about going to work and school.  Her name was Blonde and his name was Splodge.  It was so much fun to watch them play together! 



There was time for friends, although I didn't get a picture of everyone!

Ryan and Cannon at the splash park

And time for family...

My Mimi is 90 years old!

Cannon always has so much fun with my Uncle Dave's boys, Ben and Alex.  I was surprised that he remembered them from last year!  

Eddy, he's old

 Kennedi, being the only girl, was feeling a little left out so Jill spent some one-on-one time with her



It's always so difficult to get a decent picture of these boys!

 While in Park City, Cannon and I did the Alpine Slide!  He was a little nervous at first, but I talked him through everything and showed him how we can control our speed.  As soon as it was over he was ready to go again!

We did other things too, like:



Nature walks and finding tree stumps (he's very interested in tree stumps)

We found these cool wind turbines in Spanish Fork!

 We also took Trax down to Temple Square, another one of Cannon's requests.  Why is this boy unhappy you ask?  He was quite disappointed to not see the prophet!  Oh sweet boy.  We did, however, take a tour of the Church Office Building and saw where the prophet and apostles have their offices.  And we did get to see all of the apostle's wives at their special weekly luncheon.  He wasn't impressed, but I thought it was neat. 

The main reason we went out there was to attend my friend Stacey's wedding open house.  Sadly, I didn't even take any pictures!  We stayed afterwards and had hamburgers with the family.  It was fun being with them again.  Cannon felt right at home and bonded with Stacey's dad and uncle.  Her dad was such a good sport and pushed Cannon around in the wheelbarrow at his request and Stacey snapped a great picture!

We sure love Utah and its beauty!  It was wonderful to spend time with family and friends.