Road Trip to Utah July, 2011

Ronny and I decided to do a road trip this summer to Utah.

There was no reason for it, just wanted to go somewhere. So, Utah it was.

We drove through endless desert from Houston through, Fort worth, Amarillo, Albuquerque NM, Colorado, then Salem, Utah! We listened to kids songs by "They Might Be Giants" and audio books and read alongs for kids.

In Utah, we saw friends and family. My family lives in Salem: Lee (Jiji), Erika (Abby), Alana, Grace and Kaylee Richan.

Ronny's family had a nephew blessed; Johnny Sampert.

We saw the Jeppsens, Bob and Cathy, uncle Jared and Nana and Papa Sampert.

We celebrated Ronny's 29th Birthday at Provo Canyon doing a dutch oven dinner.

Ronny and I were able to go and meet up with our mission president Brad Wilcox and his family and listen to two of his speeches to the youth group up in Heber and to adults at BYU devotional.

We met up with Slater, my mission companion who I LOVE! and met up with an old high school friend and her now family, Jen Noble where we had a DELICIOUS breakfast by Jen. (Thanks!!) We were able to meet up with the Talbots just once and have some shaved ice, and even got to go back to the kid's favorite museum--the Dinosaur museum in Thanksgiving point where they enjoyed running around and learning new things, like how electricity is made.

On our way home, we stopped in Moab to see the arches National Park. We began the 3mile hike to see the delicate arch, only to realize about 1.5mile into it that not only was it HOT, it was near impossible to carry two boys on your back and hike (Ronny did the carrying, I just griped about it the whole way) and so turned around.

By night time, we had driven about 16 hours and so stopped at a little motel outside of Albuquerque for the night. Not more than 30min. into our stay there, Jaiden who was jumping on the bed fell, cracked his head open and well, we had to drive back the way we came from 30min. to the nearest ER room where he received 7 stitches.

We continued our trip the next day and arrived home safely. Although we go crazy during the trip, it's always fun to think back on the trip and remember the fun times we had, being stuck in the car together. The kids are still singing all the silly songs we learned in the car.