a Very short version of our family vacation

We had a fantastic vacation. If you would prefer to just see the video- here it is: but if you like I have more below.

The plane rides were very interesting, Tanner did not enjoy ANY moment of it. He prefers looking at them from the ground. On the way home he screamed during the takeoff and wouldn't stop until Tyson held him. The girls did okay, but got bored with movies, treats, coloring, going potty on the plane, etc.. VERY quickly. The first thing we did when we got out of the airport was take a breath of fresh air-soooo nice! And look out, seeing for miles. The sense of calm at "seeing the big picture" helped get us through the 2 hour wait for a rental car ;)

It was sooo fun to hear the kids playing with their cousins. My goal was to see if I could get my nieces and nephews to like me- Danielle was a breeze, since her Mom and Dad let me hold her all I wanted. What a piece of heaven- it was hard to let her go. Cason took a while longer, but I won him over in the end. That age is soo fleeting and the next time I see them they will be so much bigger, and I savored every moment. If any of my siblings or friends want to lend out their kids for a weekend, my house is available. Monday we got to see my roommate from college too! She took pictures for us at garder village. Then went to her house and got se meet her family. It brought back so many memories, and it is good to know we still have good friends

Steven and Camille took us to see the new oqirrh mountain temple. What an amazing place! From the over look you can see 4 different temples at the same time. WE saw Gramma and Grampa and love their little apartment. We made sure to play shanghia and brought home the instructions. Tyler and Jessica let us have a BBQ at their house so we could get caught up with all of our friends and their families. We met them later in the week at pocatello to have a campfire. Cool! The kids loved yellowstone. We saw Old Faithful, The IMAX, the Bear and wolf discovery center, and some buffalo. Then we got to have an Earl FAmily Party for Juan- who thankfully found our car keys to the rental car. On the way back we stopped by patti and pauls and were shocked to see how tall their kids are getting. What a sweet family, they played and played with my kids. And we stayed with the gundersens one last night and got loaded up with all kinds of crafts and goodies. A trip to Elizabeths fills my spirit every time. WOW! And I don't think that is half of it! There just isn't space or time to tell it all- and we didn't get the camera out near enough. WE were so busy having fun -it got forgotten- so If you don't see yourself in the video- it is because we were talking too much, playing too much and enjoying the moment too much to get a quick photo.