Vacation continued

After visiting with my sister's family we headed out to my parents house to visit with them for a week. There we filled our time up with visiting more family, riding on motorcycles, going to the park, swimming, watching movies, staying up too late, going to a carnival, and visting the fire museum.







At the carnival they had little games for the kids to play. One of them was a banana race which Kenli won!

On our trip I took the kids to the capitol and also to temple square. The kids thought the capitol was really neat. Jaxon especially loved it--as he really loves history. I think Kenli just liked how beautiful it was and how her voice echoed when she would sing.
Drey loved the fountains and just being able to run around outside.







I asked Kenli to turn around so I could take a picture of her on the stairs - she turns around and then proceeds to lay down on the stairs to pose for me--what a drama queen.




After the capitol we headed over to the church history museum. Jaxon had been wanting to go here ever since he saw a segment about it after watching conference last year. I hadn't been there in awhile and it is pretty amazing. Aside from all the cool artifacts they have they have a whole kid section where the kids could transcribe plates, play games, dress up, build towers, learn to dance, steer a boat, make a magnet quilt, and fish. Jaxon and Drey loved it...I think Kenli would have loved it too but she slept the whole time we were there!













From the museum we headed over the vistor center on temple square. The visitor center had also changed since I had been there last. Now they have really neat interactive scripture stories that all us found very facinating. This day was a very spiritually charged day for us. There were so many neat things to see and the spirit truly is so strong there. I really felt it and I was so thankful that I got to go and share that with my kids. I hope they felt the love of our Savior for them while we were there because I know I did!






We also went inside the old tabernacle and the sister missionaries performed the needle test. I had never heard of this before, but what they do is take a needle and drop it from the podium and who can hear it all the way in the back--without the use of a microphone--it was pretty neat.


We had a blast visiting Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Ben, and Uncle Bryce (except for when I got a 24 hr bug) THANKS!



Chris' family always does a Lagoon day before the 4th. The kids of course had a blast riding all of the rides and splashing at Lagoona Beach. I loved being outside and enjoying the cooler weather. The kids spent most of the day there and left the park around 6ish. Chris got into SLC around that time and was able to meet up with us at Lagoon. It was so nice to see him--we missed him tons.






Finally we made our way up to Idaho for Chris' brother's baby blessing and for the fourth of July.