Our Family Garden: Spring Break '14 Trip to Utah

We ventured out this year to brave another trip to Utah by car.

This time I didn't have a breastfeeding baby which made it a lot easier.

We split it up into a three day journey which made it a lot more enjoyable.

Needless to say, however, we were all very happy to be out of the car when we finally arrived.

We went straight over to my grandparents place to meet up with them and the other members of my family that were also visiting and who had just arrived as well.

(Blake, Kaleb, Brayden, Tevor, and Kysen)

(Ryan holding Adam, my mom, my dad, Brayden behind him, Trevor, Me and Kysen, Kaleb and Blake behind me, Brandon, Grandma Sonnenberg, and Grandpa Sonnenberg)

Best Buds

A walk down Memory Grove Park

At the hotel

Visiting with some more family.

(to my left: my cousin Jeff, my Aunt Clair, cousin Daniel in front with his wife Chelsea behind him, my cousin David behind her, and then my sister Debbie and her family)

We took a trip to Temple Square

South Visitor's Center

Brayden wanted to pose in front of everything.

I didn't want to take Kysen out of his stroller so these are pretty much the only pictures of him on Temple Square (except at the Christus), being silly with Trevor

In the Tabernacle

North Visitor's Center

Christus

My sister's family

And then this (below) was our attempt to get a family shot of us right at the same moment that Brayden and Kaleb decide to fight over something in this quiet rotundum where everything echos and other people are waiting to get their own picture.

We'll take what we can get :)

The kids were happy again in front of the temple.

Brandon and me

My mom and dad

The kids in front of the Tabernacle waiting for the pictures to end.

We visited the City Creek Center and had lunch.

And took more pictures.

Many of them at Brayden's request.

The kids went swimming a few times at my grandma and grandpa's condo.

Brandon's brother, Justin (on the right), came to play.

Grandma Wardell blowing bubbles on the balcony.

The view of the Temple from the balcony.

We visited the Children's Museum at the Gateway Mall.

Went out to eat at Cafe Rio.

And hung out at Grandma and Grandpa Sonnenberg's place.

(Kysen and Adam)

Great Grandpa's best bud.

The great-grandparents with the great-grand kids

With Debbie and Ryan and their family

Brandon and me with our crew.

...and with my mom and dad.

We had such a fun visit with all of them.

It was very hard to say good-bye.

Next we headed up to visit Brandon's family.

One of the things on our list was to play in the snow. So we drove up to the side of a mountain and let the kids get their fill.

With Brandon's mom, Grandma Joy.

Feeding the horses with Brandon's dad

At the playground Kaleb is learning how to go across the monkey bars all by himself.

Brayden already knew how.

The kids love their Uncle Matthew and Grandpa Gardner

We ate at In N Out with Grandpa Gardner and Uncle Matthew.

We were out there on March 14th, which was Kaleb's birthday, as well as our last day there, so Grandpa Gardner and Grandma Lynn threw a party for him at their place.