But so is Sunday!  We were surprised and happy to find out that my brother and his wife were blessing their baby while we were in Salt Lake, and were able to see baby Leila's blessing and visit their house.  In addition to the baby, highlights for the kids had to have been Aunt Lauren's…

 Next stop was the Adams reunion at Snowbird.  We stayed in a beautiful house looking right at the mountain.  It is rare to have everyone together, and it was so fun for us to see everyone and hang out!  There were lots of boys, lots of hats lying around, lots of baseball, lots of x-box,…

 It had been years since Nate and I visited Logan together… where we spent our first married years, and have so many fun memories.  We stopped on our way from Yellowstone to Snowbird to see Great Grandma Adams, and had such a fun time visiting her and her cute little dog.  There is never enough…

  The first stop on our marathon vacation was a family reunion with my side of the family… and since Yellowstone was our idea, I ended up finding the place for everyone to stay, which I was worried about more and more the closer we got to the trip – hoping it was big enough,…

This is about mid-way of our straight-through drive to Yellowstone:      At this point everyone is still happy.  I wish I could say the same for the last 2 hours of Carter screaming, kids fighting, edge-of-our seat driving through close calls with wildlife on the road in Yellowstone.  We were SO glad to get…

 I have never seen Carter happier than when he is running through puddles in his rain boots, soaking wet and grinning ear to ear.  This particular day, there was only one big puddle… and it was in front of the neighbors yard, and it was SO muddy.  So… he stomped the afternoon away, covered in…

 Zach's good friend from school was having a birthday party the day we left on vacation, and then moving to Texas before we got home, and the only thing that I could come up with to console him was to take his buddy to a Honkers game.  The sobbing stopped, and the plan was made.…

 We were invited to a sing-a-long and memory book reading to celebrate the end of first grade, and luckily it was before we left on our trip!  It was lots of fun.  We got to sing along with "This Land is Your Land" and lots of other fun songs, and then see the books the…

The next best thing to actually owning a bird in Zach's eyes – and better than actually owning a bird in mine.  The kids loved having Sky visit our house for the weekend.  They would sit at his cage and feed him birdseed for hours – and I am not exaggerating.  We can't wait for…

Highlights of our adventure:  Starting out for lunch in a little town with a famous pie shop that ONLY takes cash… and having no cash. SO… riding 4.9 miles to the town with the ATM… Zach riding like a trooper, and Emma feeding Carter dum-dums and swedish fish to keep him from bothering her in…