April 2010, Utah.

The third week in April the kids and I flew to Utah for 6 days. My little sister is finally home from her mission in Australia, hurray! Dad was kind enough to donate some of his Southwest miles to get us to Utah. The kids were TROOPERS on the plane, stayed in their seats and happily drew pictures and read books, they are such good kids. It was so wonderful to see my seeeester! Hooray! Thanks, Meef, for being our chauffeur while we were there. We headed down to Dad’s once we arrived. On the way, we stopped to see our new cousin, Zachary Hatch. What an adorable little man! It was so fun to see Tanya and hold the first nephew I’ve got on my side of the family. I’ll embarrassedly admit that holding him made me cry. Babies are so special, especially ones that have your DNA and a familiar spirit. Joy! Fun to spend an hour with Tanya and Zach, and Steven returned home from work just before we left.



Denise, the kids and I enjoyed lazy mornings, working out together, going out to see the horses and animals…..and snow! On days 3 and 4 of our visit the snow started and we even had an inch that stuck! Steven and Tanya were sweet to come out Friday night, make us dinner, and hang out that evening together with ADORABLE Zach-attack baby love. He is the cutest! The kids LOVED going out to the barn and helping Grandpa feed the animals. That is, until Tyler got attacked by a chicken. We’re not sure why, but a chicken freaked out and started flapping its wings and screaming and Tyler. The poor little man was terrified, backed up against a wire coop. He was rescued, but the barn just didn’t have the same appeal after that.



We enjoyed our last night at Mom’s house. She made a tent with blankets under her kitchen table and the kids laughed and read, and I’m not all sure what, but they were definitely having a good time under there! I had a hard time pulling them away and finally got them in bed at 10 pm! Whew!