To start out the New Year, we went up to East Canyon with everyone and dad - grandpa Brian! I did a pedicure with the girls before bed one night- beautiful toesies! We had two of the condos and managed to work out all sleeping arrangements and food. It was a blast being together, playing games together and we even went sledding and snowmobiling! Brian and Alisha did come up too for part of the time. Fun!
The next day Rachael and Mike got married in the Salt Lake Temple. The sealing was so nice and they looked so happy. It was a bright, beautiful day, and also freezing!
That night they had their reception and Cole's band was there to play! Alisha took these great group photos of everyone...
Lots of dancing and laughs with cousins!
Our last Sunday morning we decided to drive down to Temple Square for the choir broadcast. The girls and I watched it on a huge screen in the visitor center and dad and Caleb got to go inside the tabernacle. Afterward we walked around the visitor center and walked up the ramp to see the statue of Christ.
That night Amberly and Matt had Cal's baby blessing and my favorite part was hearing Amberly's testimony. She expressed how grateful she was for the difficult things she'd experienced the last year and the blessing that another baby was to their family. The kids had fun being crazy together one last time and we got to take some more fun pictures before leaving for home the next day.
Here we are with our loot at the airport - we had even more going home of course. Don't know if we'll ever do this again over the holidays - crazy! However, the kids have become quite the expert airplane travelers. We've come quite a ways from the days of travel with three tiny kids - how did we ever survive? It's almost a breeze now with them being so helpful and cooperative, not to mention how DVD machines and kindles come in handy too!
