So blogging to me lately has been very overwhelming. I have this whole trip out west to write about, and as much as I don't want to forget any of it, life is still moving forward, which seems to be very rapidly. It's now been a month since we have been home and I am just now getting to writing it down. Yet, I am sure I won't get it all in today since Connor can only nap for so long, Megan & Bryson's movie will end at a point, and dinner does not make itself (but I wish it did some days) So our long trip will be broken up and spread apart but I will eventually get it all down.
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We left on June 2nd to start our long car ride. We drove about 11 hours the first day. The kids were surprisingly good so we were able to make it a little further then we had planned. I just have to write about at one of the rest stops that we stopped at there was a little trail that we walked on for a bit and before we got back into the van the kids were looking at a butterfly and it kept coming close and landing on them and flying away. Connor started to chase it and it seemed like it was playing tag with him. We were all laughing so hard. Our next day drive was only 9 hours until we reached Matt & Stacie's home in Colorado.
We spent a day there of not driving before we headed off to UT. We loved seeing Our 3 nephews, & Matt & Stacie. That one day we were there we took the kids to the park and had a picnic and played some baseball. Our boys loved it and had so much fun. After the park we went to the pool to cool off. Everyone loved it except Connor who wouldn't go into the pool. I finally made him get in at the end and of course when it was time to leave, he didn't want to get out.
Josh and Matt remembering their "glory days" of baseball, way too many years ago.
Just for the sake of easiness, I am also writing about our trip once we came back at the end of our trip, on our way home. On our second visit we planned to spend 3 days with them instead of 1. We went to Water World and spent a day there playing in the water and staying cool. Megan & Bryson loved the kids area where they have smaller water slides for them to ride on. They would have gone on those rides all day if we let them. We went on a couple of bigger rides that you do with the whole family sitting in a tube. After the first one that was more like a Disney Land ride that took you inside with the robotic dinosaurs and down little hills, sort of like Splash Mountain, minus the big drop at the end. Connor kept saying "no, no, no" when we would go to ride another one, he didn't like them. He did enjoy just playing in the little pool that they had. He didn't like the lazy river unless he was being held and he would go into he wave pool until the waves started then he would get out. Josh enjoyed going on all of the rides that he and his brother, Matt could do. It was a very fun day, we all came home very exhausted from having so much fun in the sun.
The kids all loved playing together, they spent a lot of time playing computer games and watching TV, but loved to play with their cousins. Megan always wanted to hold Tysen if she could, even though Tysen isn't easy to hold, he likes to wiggle. Connor was very terrified of their dog (any dog really), Fenway. We knew he didn't really like dogs going in to the trip and was hoping that he would start to like them more. On our way out he did not want to be put down when the dog was near by. He was obsessed with knowing where the dog was at all times tho. By the time we came back and he had spent some more time with other dogs, he did a lot better and he actually would sit next to Fenway and even pet him. I really like the bread of dog Fenway is and would love to have one someday.
It was also fun to be able to see some friend of ours, Brandon & Michelle, that just moved from Kentucky to Colorado. They were one of our first friends when we moved to Kentucky. Megan and Rylee enjoyed playing with each other. And I was looking at the above picture that we took of them and was realizing how much they look alike, crazy. We had a lot of fun hanging out in Colorado. Time always goes by fast and we always wish that we could spend more time with family, especially since we don't see family too often. But thanks Matt & Stacie for letting us crash, twice at your home, sorry about all the missing gumballs that my kids loved getting in to. We hope that it won't be 4 years before we see you guys again.
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