Our trip to Utah!

 Hill aerospace museum!

we went with Grandma Harris and Aunt Amy to do some fun things during our first half of our trip! I will post more pictures  of it later, but I switched my phones and now I can't find my pictures anywhere.

Big Cottonwood Canyon FHE! 

 Grandma and some of her boys!

 Me and Kels!

 Gardner Village!  We got there just in time for the Witches to come out!

Uba Lake!

We got to keep Baden and Brett company while the ladies did Wedding Shower stuff!

A fun day at the lake!

A few pics of the kids first time flyng

Greenbriar Lake!

Every Tuesday we go to a beautiful Lake called Greenbriar State Park.  It's am awesome lake about 15 minutes from our house and the kids love it! 

It was our last time this week before school starts so we took a bunch of pictures and did an awesome Ice cream run to Nutters! We are so blessed to have good friends here.

Hunter and his buddy Dean.  

 Bridger has a girlfriend!! We have this cute girl in our ward who just loves Bubba.  She has a saying where she says "Give me five...Oh yeah" and he repeats it back to her.  It's the cutest thing ever.  I can't wait until she's 12! Actually it's 13 to legally babysit in Maryland.  Darn.

A visit to Palmyra

We tagged along to New York with Jon on his business trip!

We stayed most of the week in Syracuse, NY but one night we were able to make the hour drive to Palmyra.

It was such a beautiful sight to see these flowers.  It was a little taste of Temple Square that  I miss so much.

The Sacred Grove was incredible.  Words cannot describe the beaut

 In the visitors room before the Sacred Grove.  There was a beautiful statue of Joseph kneeling during the first vision.  It was so detailed, I had to take a picture.

 The entrance of the Grove

 Jon was reading the kids the story of Joseph Smith from the Hymn "Joseph Smiths First Prayer"

 This is what Bridger thought of that...

 Joseph Smith's bedside. It was really cool for Hunter to see this and picture it in his head.  He was really grasping it and he's really excited to be baptized

 As you walk to the House of Joseph Smith, you look over at the trees and there's a temple in the forest.  We didn't even know there was a temple in Palmyra.  It is so beautiful!

 This is where Joseph would hide the plates when the mobs would come for them

Hill Cumorah

 This was a pretty steep hill we walked up to the top.  I volunteered to carry Bridger to work off some of the YUMMY pizza we had just eaten!

This is the memorial above the site where the plates were buried.

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo~!

We tagged along Jon's New York work trip for a last chance to spend some time playing and swimming away from home before school starts!
In Syracuse, NY we were pretty local to some amazing church sites and a pretty cool zoo!
This is the Rosamond Gifford Zoo and it was so fun for the  kids.  They didn't have as many animals as some of the other zoos we've been to but the hands-on activities made up for it!  The kids were able to pet the Elephants, birds, rabbits, turtles and more!
We spent the rest of the time swimming and playing in this cute mall with a library and movie theater in it!

 

 

Bridger had fun "milking" this wooden cow! Real water came out! 

 

I loved this picture of Hanna! My boys will be running circles around the animals and I'll look over and see Hanna just sitting and thinking.  She's a sweetheart and doesn't realize how special she is.

 

This was our first time at the zoo with a potty trained Bridger.  This is what he looked like 50% of the time.
As much as I love not having to buy diapers anymore, it's really more of a pain in places like this!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gift shop exploring! Can't leave the zoo without the kids excaping into this store.