We are finally home from our journey across the west. We had a ton of fun visiting friends and family, and Kaiya did so well even though we were travelling and spending nearly every night at a different place. Here's a rundown of the trip:
August 5th: Left home, visited Temple Square in Salt Lake, and spent the night with the Christley's, friends from BYUH, in Springville. I'm still mad at myself for forgetting to take any pictures with the Christleys.
August 6th: visited more friends from BYUH, the Greenleafs, and Patrick's old roommate James and his family.
Us and the Greenleafs
Patrick and Kaiya with his old roommate James and James' mom Sandy
August 7th: travelled to Delta, Utah, where we visited Patrick's great aunts and he toured the Topaz internment camp from WWII for work.
We didn't take any pictures with the aunts, but here's the post office in Leamington, Utah. I thought its size was so funny I had to get a picture.
August 8th: travelled to St. George, where our friends from BYUH, the Peltons, let us stay in their home while they were up north. Thank you so much! We went to the pre wedding celebration/birthday party for our good friend from Carson Mike Fontano.
August 9th: Attended the wedding and reception for Mike and Lianna Fontano (Congratulations!!) and travelled to Las Vegas where we stayed with more friends from BYUH, Josh and Stephanie Barney.
The "oops, I wasn't ready" picture (sorry guys, it was funny!)
The good picture
Us and the Barneys
August 11th: Patrick drove up to Carson and joined us at my grandmother's house. Kaiya and I visited a good friend Angie Davis.
August 12th: We visited Patrick's grandparents and had a barbecue with his dad and sisters and their families.
August 13th: We spent the day at Tahoe with our friend Keri Lawson and two of her three boys. One was born on the same day as Kaiya, so it was so fun to watch them play. At night we had homemade ice cream with my grandma and brother and his family.
August 14th: Our fourth anniversary!! Kai and I flew to Boise and Patrick made the 7 hour drive by himself. Ginger babysat for us so we could go the the Boise Shakespeare festival and see Macbeth. More pictures to follow.
August 15th: We stayed at Ginger's house another night and she watched Kai again while Patrick took me shopping for an anniversary present.
August 16th: We returned home and unpacked... mostly.
August 17th: Dear friend Chelsea and her husband Derek stopped to spend a day with us on their way from Oregon to Utah. We had a ton of fun!
So as you can see we have been busy! It has been so fun to see people we don't get to visit with often enough and get out and do things. But it also feels nice to finally be home and getting back into the routine.
3 comments:
Wow what a trip! That all sounds (and looks) like so much fun! That is so neat that you got to see so many of our Hawaii friends!
We loved having you come and stay! I definitely think Josh and I should plan a trip to Idaho sometime to stay in your cabin :) Kaiya is so adorable and you are both excellent parents! What a great time.
i can't believe you guys went to Delta of all places!! haha... you know i'm from there... i mean, born and graduated from high school... but i don't claim it... well, i guess i just did. anyway, haha... that's funny! hope you had fun!!! it sounds like you did!! can't wait to get together one of these days now that we're in the same state and all :)
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