More August Trip Pictures

Dad of the Year--Shooting guns, teaching video games, and a happy baby. Good job Nick!

This is in Beaver, Ut. It's some of the best food!! If you like fried, which I love, then you'll love it!

Love this picture because it shows the flag too. How thankful I am to live in a country with religious freedom. We are all very blessed.

Salt Lake Temple--First time with my kids doing the tours and really checking things out. They were so good.

Holt Brothers, acting tough! :)

The Holt boys. All of Nicks brothers in order: Nick, Eric, Justin, Chauncey, and Colby. The only one missing is Andrea. She's older than Chauncey, younger than Justin. She just had her baby about a week before, so she counldn't make it. She's great; we missed her!

Uncle Chauncey getting ready for the MTC. How many guys you know with blackeyes going there? :)

My favorite girl in the world.

Logan Temple, Nick's such a great dad. Reagan adores him....me too

Hunter and Moose--loves this thing!

Love him!!!!!!!!

My cute boys!!

Family picture at the Logan Temple

Logan Temple

Reag took this and did pretty good!!

At the Logan pool. I put this in sepia so I wouldn't blind you. You're welcome! :)

At the Logan pool

Matt taking the counsins on a carriage ride with a mini horse. So cool!

Hunter, over it and ready for a nap.

Reag having a blast! Thanks Fosters for going all out!!!

Scary, I know but the only proof that I am fun and get in the bouncehouse at the reunion.

August Trip Pictures continued....

Reagan at Grandma Thompsons house in Victor. We always have so much fun there. Everyone is always so good to come and see us and play. It was my birthday while we were there and everyone got together and they made my favorite cheesecake with huckleberries we had picked that day. So good. All of them have always been so good to me and love me. Iwas trully blessed with a wonderful extended family when I married Nick, on both of his sides.

Look at those cheeks! What's not to love?!

Nick normally hates these baby backpacks. He has always refused to wear our Baby Bjorn but this one wasn't so bad. Still manly I guess. Had to have a picture taken for evidence.

Ok, so are we just lazy? Has anyone else ever just put their kid in a hotel drawer, on the floor, when they didn't want to pack in the playyard?? He's not moving or rolling yet, keep that in mind. :)

My sweet family watching Old Faithful

Yellowstone, again..... don't mind my crazy hair, check out the geyser!

Yellowstone and my hot husband!! I am thankful for him every single day.

Yellowstone!

Ok, here I go!! August.....

Ok, so I've decided to do this one month at a time. I'll write a post about the month, try to explain the pictures and then I'm sure post A MILLION pictures!! That's the best part for me, so sorry if you don't love that. For some reason it always does a gradual spacing, but I'm not sure why or how to fix it. Sorry!! Ok, the bulk of these pictures are from our two week roadtrip at the end of July and into August. We had a family reunion, a new baby being born, a missionary to drop off at the MTC, and a birthday and anniversary, and then a camping trip all around the same time all out of town so we figured we would just make a fun relaxed trip out of it and stay and play and visit family instead of going back and forth. It was all in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho, so driving back and forth did not seem fun. We had such a blast! Usually we are always so rushed and we don't get nearly enough time with our family up there and we absolutley ADORE them so it was perfect! Both kids were at a perfect time to travel with too. Reagan was just over 4 and didn't fight naps, but was good to stay up and sing and look out the window too. Hunter was 6 months so still content to be in his carseat and sleep lots. Thankfully, Reagan is good to hand things to him and help. I have to say it was a success and we did not have to turn ONE MOVIE ON THE ENTIRE TIME!!! And it's 12 hours up and then lots of time going to different families for the two weeks. They did great and were always so pooped by the time we got back in the truck that they wanted to sleep! SUCCESS! :) We went to visit the newish Rexburg temple while we were visiting Andrea, Nicks sister, and her new baby girl, Madison. It is beautiful! She has a great view from her apartment too. It was refreshing to see so much. We also went to Temple Square for the entire day. Kids did great and Reagan was able to really see things and you could see the wheels turning. We also had to stop in and get massive fist size yummy rolls and honey butter at the Lion House bakery. Love! We went to the Raspberry Festival in Bear Lake, ID; we picked huckleberries in Victor, ID and kept them on ice the entire trip home and made homemade raspberry and huckleberry jam when we got home. So yummy, wished we could smuggle more home since it's almost gone! we went through Yellowstone and saw Old Faithful. We had a blast swimming and playing and games and so many fun times with our cousins and had a great family reunion too! Anyways, we did tons of things but had lots of time and didn't feel too rushed. Nick had been working out of town and we hadn't seen each other for a month, so it was much needed!! Here are a ton of pictures. Again, this is gonna be a book at some point so feel free to skip through. I know it's alot!! :) Few more details on the pictures: stopping at Cabellas-because we can never NOT stop! :); Cheesecake Factory on the way up-our 7 year anniversary was the next day and who can resist! teaching Reagan young!; Fun cousins Reag loves. LOVE THIS FAMILY, wished they were closer; where's Phil (cousin) reaching and why is Nick smiling?!; my favorite boys; with our new niece baby Madison; outside Rexburg temple--never been there, so beautiful! Perfect day with the family, 1 day after our anniversary and a sweet reminder that Families are Forever; Nick and Hunter in Yellowstone. Pictures continued in new post above!

MIA

Ok, I am still alive and I know it's been FOREVER since I have updated. It's been very daunting because I want to start where I left off so this can be a book someday. So, I have been talking myself into tackling this huge project this weekend. Wish me luck!!