Cousin time!

We also made to sure to have lots of cousin time while in Utah. Lily now knows all her cousins and their names really well, so we'll have to practice over video calls.

These pictures are from the quarry trail up Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Caught these cute pictures from when Lily first saw Jeff and my dad.

My mom and I also met Brittney and her kids at the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. It was really fun!

I didn't get as many pictures with Melissa and her children, but here is one from the Bean museum at BYU. Such a cool place, that is FREE. We also spent a day at the Tracy Aviary and the 7 canyons fountain at Liberty Park and couple other times just hanging out at the house.

We spent a weekend up at Brittney's house in Mendon!
 Of course we had to go get Aggie icecream and let Lily try it for the first time.

 Our Sunday walk by the river.

Brittney and I spent a lot of time getting some photo/memory books ready for my parents surprise 60th birthday party, which I will post some pictures from too eventually. Here's us laughing about the long process.

It was really sad saying goodbye to my sisters and to Lily's cousins :(. But I was so grateful Brittney and Melissa both made special trips one last time to play with us before we moved.

Lily and Milo were both obsessed with this giant baby doll my mom has at her house. I had to post these hilarious pictures of Milo and the baby. Ha ha!

This was the best picture of all the kids, even though Lily looks like she hates the world.

 The result of trying to get Lily and Milo to hug.

We were able to see my grandpa a few times while we were in town too. I hope we can make it to his 95th birthday next year!

Friend time

Since Barrett only worked part-time and we were staying at our parent's houses so I didn't have many household duties, we took advantage of the time off and tried to hangout a lot with family and friends. Here are a few fun pictures of all the friend hangouts.

One of our first days there we went to Cowabunga Bay with Natalie, Robbie, and Hunter.

Barrett's cousin, Abby, and her daughter, Londyn, were in town when we first got there. Lily and Londyn got to go swimming together at Grammy's pool!

My friend from work, Paige, just moved back to Utah from Hawaii, so we got to play a couple times with her twins, Trey and Skylee. (Lily was not to happy to share her seat in this picture:))

On our way home from Logan one time we stopped to see Logan and Deborah's beautiful new home. Then Deborah and I were able to get together at City Creek one day so Eloise and Lily could play. These pictures are at the really cool Dinosaur area at the food court.

We also went to a Real game with Deborah and Logan right before we moved.

Barrett and I got to meet Julie and Nate's new baby, Walter, two different times when we were in Logan visiting my sister, as well as see their beautiful house they just bought. Deborah, Julie, and I also made another day work to hangout and have the kids play.

Eloise, Calvin, and Lily

 It's so fun that we've still been able to stay in touch since being college roommates! 

We were also really lucky to see some friends we made in Baltimore. Mary, Tyler, and Maya were in Utah visiting family so Ashley and Justin (who now live in Utah) were so nice to take us all out on their family's boat.

Lily did not like the life vest at all!

 Watching Barrett wakeboard.

 Maya and Lily

After the boys wakeboarded we had a little light left to take the kids on a tube ride.

The sunset was beautiful as we drove off the lake! We love boating!

Ashley came down to shop once with me and then we were able to see the Norman's one last time before we moved. We ate at Bonsai and then played at a park after.

 So cute! We weren't fast enough to get a picture of Keaton and Lily hugging, but at least we got this one of Lily and Aisley.

The two groups I am so SO sad I didn't get pictures of are having dinner twice with Emma and Levi, another lunch date with Emma, and a girls' night with some high school friends. At least I can document in words. And... Hayley kindly sent me this picture of her cheesecake from the girls night dinner/dessert at The Cheescake Factory, so that shows proof right?

Barrett and I feel so incredibly blessed for all the friends we have made. Although it's difficult to move frequently, it has helped us meet so many great people that really are so kind, easy to talk to, and great examples to us. And we were happy to spend so much time in Utah, but also limited time, because we saw our friends this summer WAY more than we ever would have if we had stayed put, ha ha. One positive about moving far away maybe.

Girls' Trip 2014

I thought I was all caught up, but then I looked all the pictures we have from our summer in Utah! I'll try to do a few long posts with little detail about our busy summer. Then I can finally move on to our adventures in Norway!

I'll start with out my family's annual GIRLS' TRIP! We decided to stay close and just stayed in a hotel downtown for a night. It was so much fun! And it was my first time every sleeping without Lily. Crazy. We started with a tour of the conference center gardens and then watched the Joseph Smith movie.

We walked around Temple Square and at the Garden Cafe at the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Yummy!

 We walked around City Creek after and bought some cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory.

The next morning we hiked Ensign Peak.

We also went to the Church History Museum. I had forgotten how much was there! We ended with a shopping trip to the best store on earth, Target. It ended up being kind of a church history girl's weekend and it was perfect!