Utah Trip-Goody Time

Troy and I always make some sort of schedule with the weeks we are in Utah with which family we will be with which day. During the days that we were with my family my mom had planned to celebrate a different holiday each day. It included the following:

There was Valentines Day, with exchanging of Valentines with each other, sugar cookies and decorations. (My mom and sisters would decorate in a different room each day and leave the decorations up for the duration of our stay. It was quite a site by the end of the trip to go from one room to the next looking at each holiday.)

We had Easter. My mom hid Easter eggs in the back yard, and we had an Easter feast for dinner.

(Andrew's cool shirt is due to the skit that we had done earlier in the day. He loved his costume so much he wore it the remainder of the day.)

There was Thanksgiving. And yes, my mom cooked a Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, rolls, yams, potatoes, etc.

Of course Christmas with our traditional KFC meal, Sprite, and chocolate milk. You have to try it. My mom made us stockings and we got gifts.

We also were there for my birthday, so my mom made me a cake and Corey made my birthday dinner. I got balloons, and went shopping at a fabric store for a quilt.

We also spent a day up in Salt Lake. We saw the new Joseph Smith film, walked around temple square, walked up to the doors of the temple, went to the top of the Joseph Smith building and looked out over the city, toured the conference center, and ate at Crown Burger.

In our ‘spare’ time we picnicked at parks,

did puzzles, the boys played the Wii, and one of Troy’s favorite things was going hiking with my dad. He had been planning and planning this hiking trip for the whole summer. Let it be known that Troy loves the Uintahs, and has been studying different hikes in the area. So Troy found an 11 mile hike for him and my dad to go on. They left early in the morning, and hiked and fished all day In other words, Troy was in heaven. Though he did have one complaint, that my dad both out fished and out hiked him. He is already in ‘training’ for next year. Increasing his workouts, and getting his fly box ready for next year.