sometime back in June...

we went to Utah. We took lots of pictures, say like 200. For now, I am just going to post a few from our "camping" trip to Cherry Hill.

Because our van was broken at the time, we drove Aaron's Rodeo. It's a much smaller vehicle, but when you are a super light-packer like me, you don't need a lot of space. In fact, we were able to bring home 3 large boxes of baby boy items and 2 boxes of maternity clothes and still had plenty of room. We were not, however, able to bring any of our camping gear. But luckily we have a fabulous family who let us borrow everything.

Cherry Hill will always have a special place in my heart. I am sure it stems back from the millions of childhood memories I made there. I love watching my kids ride the same waterslides I loved when I was their age-- or burn their butts on the same metal playground that I used to play on. Here are lots of pictures, in no particular order.

The boys insisted on sleeping in their own tent-- why would we object to that? They slept well. In fact, Aaron and I were surprised that even though the sun came up at 6 am, we didn't hear a word until 8:30ish. We got out of our tent, to find three boys just hanging at the campground in their pj's (and shoes). Apparently, they had been up for a while, but didn't think to come and wake us up in our tent. Again, no objections.

Ben and Luke rode by themselves quite a bit and they always came out facing the opposite direction... I love Ben's enthusiasm for everything he does.



I love this shot (below) of Ben and Luke talking to me as soon as I came down the slide.
Not because my pregnant body is so sexy-- but because I can still hear their laughter as they gloat about beating me down the slide.



This is Zack and Daddy in the lazy river. Zack has literally asked about going back to the lazy river everyday since. He could barely touch the bottom, so he was swimming like a fish and every once in a while he bounce up for air. I have a video somewhere...

Just a side note. Aaron and I are both very laid back parents, but we rarely lose our children. It just so happens that we've lost Ben TWICE-- once at Cherry Hill two years ago and again during this trip. Aaron took Ben and Luke on the River Run (with tubes and waterfalls.) Aaron got separated from Ben because Luke was having a hard time staying in his tube. Ben was seriously devastated. It took us about 30 minutes to find him- and by that time, he was sobbing. By the end of the day, I think he forgave us.

The boys goofing off... Usually I would just post one or two pictures, but today I am feeling crazy.




Although we would have loved to have cousins playing with us all day, it was a lot of fun being together as a family... just the five of us, for now.



oh, and I can't forget about the friends we saw while staying in Kaysville. We had lunch with Annalisa Mc and her darling kids (they swam with us for a while too, but sadly I have no pics.)
and we had dinner with the VanBrocklin's-- great friends from Aaron's mission. We were married just a month or two apart and spit out babies about the same time. They have four kids (3 girls and a baby boy.) The only pictures I have is David bouncing the kids on the trampoline. Their little Jetta went flying every time..