Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Our Summer



Kenny Chesney Concert in Salt Lake
Tori's gym camp at SUU
Time Square
Travis's uncle's pet deer at Lindsey's wedding
St. Anthony Sand Dunes
Yellowstone
Waiting for the 24th Parade
Manti Temple


Wow it has been quite the summer! The end of June we went to Lake Powell for a week and stayed with Cindy on her houseboat. It was a ton of fun and Kade learned to ski, and the girls learnedc to wakeboard. No prettier place in the world to learn to ski and wake board than Lake Powell!

For the 4th of July we went to Salina and let the kids experience a good old fashion small town 4th. They had a lot of fun doing the races and watching the parade. Then Tori and I spent a week in Cedar City staying in the dorms for her gym camp. It was a great camp but I am way too old to stay in dorms!

On the 22nd of July we went to SLC for a Kenny Chesney concert and for the 24th "stuff" with Bob and Espi and their family. It was a ton of fun, the kids loved the concert and the fireworks and parade were a lot of fun. Then we left from their and went to St. Anthony sand dunes in Idaho for a week. It was so nice up there! We went to Yellowstone on Sunday and saw lots of cool stuff (including cute Mckinley Johnson from our ward!). Then we spent the rest of the week riding and playing in the water. We left Friday and went to Salina for Lindsey's wedding and finally made it home again on Sunday August 2nd. Travis had bought airline tickets and tickets to Broadway before school ever got out and he was going to surprise me and take me to NYC on the 14th, but Wednesday night he got a reminder email from the airline that our flight was actually for the 7th! So we emptied our suitcase from the sand dunes (yes I am kinda slow about that!) and repacked to go to NYC! Travis swore he would never go there so I was shocked. It was an awesome weekend, we did tons of fun things and we really liked the city. The people were all really nice, which we were shocked about, and the subway was fun get around on. We went to a Yankees / Red Sox game, saw Wicked on Broadway, saw the Statue of Liberty, went to the top of Rockefeller Center, and walked a million miles around New York City!

Overall, we are way ready to be home for a while. But we had an incredible summer and did some awesome things! WE are so blessed to get to do all we do :)

2 comments:

hendricks14 said...

Sounds fun and exhausting all at the same time! But what great memories. I think the memories bind your family together! Scott feels the same way about NYC maybe there is hope and he will do the same for me someday!!

Jill Johnson said...

I think between the 2 of us we haven't spent one whole week home. i don't think I have seen you all summer except the slip n slide! I will be glad to get back to normal.