Utah's Top 10

Our four weeks in Utah this summer were packed with lot of fun things. In no particular order, here is our Utah's Top 10:

1. Jolley Family Reunion (My mom's side of the family).
2. Jared & Shannon's Wedding
3. Grandma & Grandpa Davis' backyard:


The boys spent countless hours in this HUGE sand pile. The picture only shows half of it. Here is a view of Justin and Tyler's river. Heaven for little boys! :)

We played games on the sport court, rode tricycles and wiggle cars on the winding sidewalk pathway, filled the birdfeeder for the quail family and enjoyed backyard birthday parties and picnics with all the family.

4. Day Trips: Cascade Springs,


We went back to visit the place where Travis proposed!

Bridal Veil Falls,


We went on an adventure to see the waterfall with Elana (Heidi & Joe's daughter). These little cousins had a fun time together running down the trails and then discovering all the animals at The Bean Museum.

BYU Bowling,


The boys loved these nifty ramps for the bowling balls. Even tiny guys can enjoy bumper bowling this way!

and shopping with my sisters.Maybe this one should be #1 :)

5. Playing with Grandma & Grandpa Davis, Great-Grandpa Jolley and cousins. While Travis and I were in Hawaii, Justin and Tyler had a great week with Grandma and Grandpa and all their cousins. Justin wasn't ready for us to come back yet.

Grandpa Jolley was staying with my parents in Provo while we were visiting. It was fun for the boys to get to know him better. We took walks with Grandpa in the morning and helped him with his projects around the house. He even joined us on a few adventures. The kids LOVED playing with their cousins. We took lots of walks over to play with the Wright kids. The boys liked going over to Elana & Josh's house to look for deer in the backyard. They also wanted to go "help" at Jared & Shannon's new house.

6. Game nights with family and get-togethers with good friends. It was fun to go to lunch and go visit with my friends and Travis went golfing with his buddies. Settler's of Cataan is aways fun!

7. Date nights to the movie theatre: The Bourne Ultimatum and Harry Potter.

8. Visits to Thanksgiving Point:

a. Dinosaur Museum - two times!

The boys had a great time digging for dinosaurs with Chandler, my good friend Jennie's son.
There were so many hands-on activities for the kids. They even learned how to make a ceramic fossil to take home.


b. Children's Garden and Botanical Gardens with G & G Davis, Great-Grandpa Jolley and Aunt Tawnya. Then lunch at Cabella's.






Justin loved being our photographer! We even caught some master hoola-hoopers in action:






c. Farm with Grandma Davis and the Wright kids.





9. Salt Lake City's Hogle Zoo,Signing Time Concert and lunch with Great-Grandpa Jolley.

10. Travis' mission reunion We were lucky to be in town for this get-together. It was fun to see Amber & Jeff there, too! Travis and my sister both served as missionaries in the Spain Las Palmas mission (The Canary Islands).