Utah and Wyoming

This summer we took a 2 week trip (we spent 40 days on vacation this summer) to Utah, Wyoming, and then back to Utah again. Our first stop was to South Jordan, Utah where we stayed in my brother Andrew and Michelle's beautiful new house. The girls had a great time playing with their cousin Drew and Ryan and I enjoyed hanging out with Andrew and Michelle. We went to the Children's exhibit in the LDS Art and Church History Museum. My girls love going there to play.
They had dance clothes you could try on and learn how to do some Mexican dancing.

We also went to the splash pad at Liberty Park and they girls loved splashing in the water and soaking in the sun.

We also made a quick stop at BYU to go bowling.

The girls and I went to visit the Museum of Art on BYU campus and we came across this exhibit of used college books someone had built into a huge square. It was really awesome to look at.

Before we left to go to Wyoming we went out to dinner with Andrew and Michelle and my sister Rachael and her boyfriend Steve. We ate lots of good food and had a great time talking.

After a few days in Utah we left to go to Cody, Wyoming to spend the 4th of July with Ryan's family. Ryan's mom grew up in Cody and Ryan spent a lot of his childhood 4th of July's in Cody. He was really excited to go and relive his childhood. His parents, his brother Tyler and his family, his sister Ashley and her family, and his sister Amber and her family all came to Cody to celebrate. Their were 19 of us and we probably doubled the population of this small town. We played at the park a lot and just had fun being together.

Here are all the grand kids waiting for the kid parade to start (there were 3 parades that weekend). Grandma Ferrell loved being surrounded by all of them.

Peyton and Hailey really wanted to get feathers in their hair while we were at the big celebration at the park. It was really cheap so I let them.

One of the highlights of the trip was going to a real professional rodeo. The Cody Stampede Rodeo was so much fun and the girls loved watching it. Hailey even got to sit on a real bull and take a picture with her cousins.

On the morning of the 4th of July they had a huge parade. I have never seen so many horses at one time in my life. It was fun to see what parades were like before they had huge floats and cars.

Here are the two that made this trip possible for all of us. Thanks mom and dad for showing us a great time.

While we were at the hotel we swam a lot with the cousins.

Here the girls are at another park.

Here we all are (just to prove we were all there together).

Lexi and Peyton loved to snuggle on the hotel bed together.

That night we went to go watch fireworks at the top of the mountain. It was a great show until it started pouring rain and we had to run back to the car. We had such a fun time in Cody and it is a trip we will remember forever. It was great seeing how Ryan spent some of his childhood and one of the best parts was getting to see the Ranch that my mother-in-law spent her summer's at.

After our fun trip to Wyoming we drove back to Utah to spend time at the condo in Provo. We spent one day swimming with Michelle and Drew.

We spent a day hanging out with some of our friends from Irvine (who now live in Utah) the Lopez Family. The girls had a great time playing with their old friends and they didn't want to leave their house.

We also got to spend time with our friends from our days at BYU, Beth and Eric, and Matt and Stacey. We had fun catching up with them and the kids had fun playing with their kids.

We spent some more time at BYU and then it was time to head back home. It was sad to leave Utah but we look forward to going back in October for a week.