Utah trip

A couple of my friends have told me that they are tired of reading about the triathlon...you know, the last post I did that was over three weeks ago. Ok, ok, so I have lagged a bit on updating our blog. So I figure I should probably update on what's been going on these past few weeks, considering that this is also my journal and all. Here we go:

The day after Jeff's triathlon was the beginning of his finals. That Saturday we left for Utah to visit family. So while Jeff was going through finals I was getting us ready to go to Utah and preparing things at work for me to be away. Then in Utah we were go go go the whole time. Here's a sampling of what we did:

This is my cute little Mom

The whole time we were there the weather was wonderfully warm and sunny, so we went to the park a lot.

I am proud to say that Porter got over his fear of the grass

I'm guessing he's done with the park

My niece Claire helped Porter walk around a lot so by the time we came home he was pretty much walking all over the place.

My Dad, brother-in-law Tom and beautifully pregnant sister Michelle.

We went to the Children's Museum one day - Porter seemed to like it.

Playing with water at the Children's Museum - isn't my little man adorable??

Another park

Playing in an egg at the zoo - these next few pics are at the zoo

Looking at this picture it made me glad that there was a fence there - I know, I'm a wuss

Who doesn't love ice cream??

You didn't really enjoy your ice cream unless it's all over your face

Dad and Jeff went geocaching

While we were there it was my parent's 41st anniversary so our present to them was we took some pictures of them and got them framed. This was our second favorite pic.

This was our first.

Unfortunately we didn't get pictures of everything we did. Jeff went golfing a few times and bike riding with our brother-in-law Tom. He also shadowed a chiropractor in Ogden on one day. We spent another day with our friends the Kepo'os who finished WSCC a few years ago and moved to Utah to start a practice - good times. We also went to Raging Waters where we all had fun, except for Porter - he didn't really dig the water too much...we need to work on that. Then our friends the Reynolds who live with us in Portland were also in Utah and they blessed their baby there since both of their families are from there so we got to go to that too. Jeff and I had a dang good time in Utah. It was sad to leave, but after being away from home for 9 days it definitely feels good to be back.

Once we got home it was rent week at work plus we were settling back in to our routine, so that took some time. For Fourth of July I babysat during the day then we went to a friends house for a BBQ and went home to put Porter to bed, so we didn't see fireworks (it doesn't get dark until late here so fireworks don't start until about 10pm - Porter would have been a little terror), but it's not like we haven't seen them before. That weekend Jeff and I enjoyed the last few days before he had to start school again. Now he's in the first quarter of the 8-9 split at school so his load will be lighter and life won't be so hectic, but it is still school. So that's my little update in a nutshell.