The youngest 4 kids and I drove out to Denver and stayed a couple days with the Favero clan. As always, we had a great time and are so glad they are on their way to having 4 girls and 1 boy just like us. Here's the Wilson/Favero cousin lineup at the pool minus Addy, who was home attending volleyball camp. We missed her.
It's always a tea party at Grandma Patsy's and the kids loved it. Claire, especially, was out here all day having tea parties with the teddy bears.
Making yogurt parfaits for breakfast with Grandma.
Ryan and Addy flew in and joined us in Utah and we headed up to Yellowstone for a Hansen family reunion.
Claire loved the little bridge over the creek at Margie's cabin. Notice she is showing her love for NW Arkansas, thanks to my good friend, Hayley. It was so fun to see all of my cousins who are now grown and have families of their own.
The creek was a big hit with the kids. Crazy Halle, as per usual.
Heading out to raft the river. I promise Ryan was more enthusiastic about this than he seems in this picture. What a great dad.
Fun times on the river. Addy's kayak ended up being more of a dingy. We all had a good laugh about that, except Addy. I will admit the relaxing float trip I had imagined was a lot more paddling than I anticipated.
We got to know our darling niece, Alice Claire. We pretty much fell in love with this sweetheart and wish we lived closer so we could see her more often (and her awesome parents, Dave and Jacki).
Cousins Addy and Luci. These girls are growing up too quickly. We are so happy Miss Luci was able to join us and wish her whole family could have been there. We missed you, Scott and Stin!
Our last day we bribed the kids (with lots of candy) to try and get a cute cousin shot. I think we succeeded.
Mia, our resident butterfly whisperer. She played with this butterfly for at least 10 minutes. It could fly but it just wanted to land on Mia, probably because she is so sweet.
After the reunion, we drove down to Southern Utah to attend the funeral of Ryan's grandma, sweet Grandma Tobler. We were so happy we were able to be there and see all of his extended family that we hadn't seen in so many years. This is Claire swinging on the swing in Grandma Tobler's backyard after the funeral.
It was fun spending time in Hurricane and La Verkin, the twin cities, and having some good cousin time as well. I enjoyed a nice run early that morning From La Verkin into Hurricane and back before it was too hot.
We spent so many hours in the car, the kids were getting restless. Addy took one for the team and allowed Claire to do her makeup to distract her from her restlessness. Pretty sure she earns big sister of the year for that one.
We spent a day in Salt Lake and visited Temple Square and the Conference Center and the new City Creek mall. We were so happy that Grandma Leah could join us for the day.
I love this picture. Pretty sure neither of them knew I took this one. Hope she stays this close to her dad as the years go on.
We spent an evening up the canyon with the Wilson cousins and grandparents. The kids got SO incredibly dirty it made me laugh. You can see the dirt on the side of Luke's face. Needless to say, they had a great time.
Claire enjoying a teddy bear tea party all by herself.
I took the youngest three over to the Highland Splash Park one afternoon. It was a super fun park reminiscent of a real creek or river. Luke and Claire especially loved it. Claire kept dunking her head in the water.
I enjoyed running all over in all the places we stayed. This was my last morning run in Highland, Utah before we headed home the next day.
The last leg of our trip. We left Denver first thing in the morning as the sun was coming up. Pretty much the longest day ever. It felt like we would never get home.
It never felt so good to see this sign and know we were only minutes from home.
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