Vacation Part 1

We left for our trip Friday morning, the 27th of May at about ten-thirty and arrived in Utah at about 4:30 pm Saturday afternoon. Dan drove through the night because the kids did so well with the driving. I think we were all just excited to get there and be done with the drive. We made a few Walmart stops along the way (I know, so educational!) just to let the kids walk around and pick a travel treat, and of course we stopped for gas and meals too, but really, everything went so smoothly that I was scared to death for the ride home because there was no way we'd have such happy kids twice! Dan might not think it went as well since he was the one who drove through the night. ;)

Anyway, we made it to Utah and after a quick stop-in at my parents house, we drove straight up to Cache Valley to drop off a bunch of stuff and spent the night with Abuela and Abuelo. It was fun seeing everyone. We went to church there and visited Tia Betty and Tio Walter's house too. The kids were already having a blast with their cousins.

Monday morning we drove through a blizzard in sardine canyon and down to my sister Emily's house in West Valley. My little sister Liz and her husband were packing up their moving van to head off to Boston so we dropped Dan off to help them, then headed to Em's and hung out there. Everyone came over that night to say goodbye to Liz and Dave. The kids were in cousin heaven! I am one of nine children, so you can imagine how many little kids there were running around! Tuesday night I went out to eat with my sisters and then we all slept at my sister Kirstin's house. I got to go out and shoot some pictures of my beautiful niece Starly while I was there, and that was fun too.

I'll go ahead and stop there and post pictures up to that point...I still have two weeks left, so stay tuned! :)