Jammed Packed Utah Week

It just so happened that there happened to be 4 big reasons for us to be in Utah the first week of summer vacation.  

1. Glen had work there

2. Uncle Joel needed help moving

3. Uncle Paul needed some help

4. This darling baby was getting blessed

We spent one afternoon entertaining all the kids with a round of miniature golf.  

Grandma and Kurtis were kind enough to golf along and keep things under control!

Afterwards we headed for some yummy pizza at the Pie.  
These two boy cousins are really crazy about Maggie.  They both fight over her and think that she is just theirs.  

Here Roe is telling Dax to back off, it's his girl!  Maggie LOVES the attention too!

Penn's blessing day was great! I was so glad we could be there, we are lucky that it's only a 5 hour drive and we can hop over for important things like this.  

Not sure if Glen's breath was smelling or the story he was telling was scary poor Penn?!

We love the time we get to spend with all our cousins in Utah now.  Reese and Ellie are always up for a good time and keep us laughing.  

I have never met a smarter 5 (almost 6) year old!  Ellie loves numbers and math.  It amazes me, maybe cause Math was never my thing, but I am pretty positive she's a genius!  

We were headed down to Utah county to meet Glen who was working down there and staying a hotel there.  As we started heading south I noticed the traffic was not good SO lucky us there was IKEA.  It's always a good time wondering around there. 
I think the girls agree!

Glen's work was a big sponsor for the Utah Valley Half Marathon this year.  He spent most of his time Friday and Saturday working on that.  
It was fun to see the end of the route as the runners came down the street with the new Provo City Temple as the end of the race. Pretty cool!

They had a free fun kids run at the end.  Glen got the kids all pumped up about giving it a shot.  
Pretty positive that Carter was the only one that took it serious.....the other two were wearing flip flops!

GO Carter GO!!!

And here comes the other two.  Bess was a nice sister and made sure her sister was right behind her. 

They did it and they even got a medal to prove it!

We are very excited for Joel and Erin on their new house.  The neatest yet saddest thing about it is if we still lived there they were in our hood.  We could have done Sunday walks to visit them or had them over for dinner.....bummer!  But we can still visit them often and be happy to see our old stomping grounds. 

Glen and about 5 of Joel's good friends did a majority of moving the stuff out of the old house into the moving truck.  They kids and I met them at the house and helped unload into the new house.  

We were so happy we could be there to help them.  It's always fun with Uncle Joel and Aunt Erin!