Utah Part 1

If you follow me on Instagram you know we’re on an impromptu road trip. Brad’s mom called him up a few weeks ago to ask when we were coming out this year to visit. (Remember last year when we went out there for six weeks as part of our 4 month travel extravaganza? That’s a long trip, folks.) He hemmed and hawed and confessed we weren’t planning on coming out this year. Apparently he felt bad about it because when he hung up the phone he informed me we needed to pack; we were going to Utah. So off we went. Just 3 weeks this time. Then two weeks in Tennessee to visit my sister and my newest nephew.

Here’s Ezra running the “bridges” in Grandpa’s garden. I feel like I only get the back of his head in pictures these days.

The boys have been enjoying the cousin time. Morgan is the best. Such a sweetie.

We also enjoyed the local 24th of July (Pioneer Day) festivities. I wasn’t expecting much with Monticello being such a small town, but wow! Pretty impressive.

Ezra kept his parade candy stash safe in Daddy’s pockets.

Tractors were Memphis’s favorite part. “Tac-tuhs! Tact-tuhs!””

They handed out popsicles to all the kids at the parade. What kind of dye did they put in these things??? Memphis dripped all over my foot and even after washing it I channeled Elphaba (or at least her foot anyway) for the rest of the weekend.

My favorite part of the day was snuggling up under quilts in Brad’s parent’s driveway for front row seats to the evenings fireworks.

On a side note, our last trip ended up being like 4 months long so I packed a ridiculous amount of clothes for the 4 of us into one enormous suitcase (which despite the size still had to be sat on in order to close). Trying to find anything in there was maddening. Searching for socks in particular would turn me into a fire breathing monster. So this time I swore things would be different. Let’s just say I overcompensated. 5 shirts (one of which I sleep in) and one pair of capris for 5 weeks. I do laundry every. freaking. day. and wear Brad’s pj bottoms at least three days a week. Ugh. I need to go shopping.