Why Do We Have to Go Home?

Much to our dismay, we are home from our trip to Utah. We enjoyed 10 glorious days and it was a great break from the heat and boredom of Las Vegas. Rather than a lengthy description, here are some things we loved about our time there:

• visiting with friends and family
• going shopping without children
• gorging ourselves on peas from Dad's garden
• BYU Bookstore
• seeing Kung Fu Panda
• Sportsmans Warehouse
• enjoying greenery and beautiful mountains (instead of dirt and rocks)
• Dad's gingersnaps
• fireworks and sparklers
• Tanner mastering his crawling skills


• 4 wheeler and tractor rides with Grandpa

• late night movies
• kids sleeping in past 9 every morning
• the cool night air
• homemade ice cream and BBQs

If I'm not mistaken, Andrew went to Sportsmans Warehouse not once, but four different times while we were in Utah. He absolutely loves that store. How excited do you think he was when he found out they are building one here in Vegas only minutes from our house? I'm in trouble.

One thing I really wanted to accomplish while I was up there was to try to get a nice updated picture of the kids. My dad's tractor was a cute backdrop, however my subjects were less than enthusiastic about their mother's plans. I snapped a few but the squinting from the sun proved too much and we gave up after a few minutes. The one above is the best of the bunch. The pictures below are some outtakes.

I think Zackie's body language in these last two say it all. Even cousin Mattie tried to sneak in on the last picture.

We were sad to leave and the kids kept asking us,"why do we have to go home?" I thought about it for a minute and was asking myself the same thing!

Andrew and I were talking about it and agreed that going up to South Weber is so fun and peaceful for our family. Once you take the exit and turn into the town where my parents live, it's almost as if the outside world disappears. I know everyone experiences the same thing whether it be at a family cabin in the mountains or a cruise ship out in the middle of the ocean: a place you feel is a true getaway from everything. What place is a true getaway for you? For me it's my parents' house in South Weber. We've been up there dozens of times over the years and coming home is usually no biggie. But this time it felt different somehow. As we drove home and the temperature gauge on our car kept rising and real life began to settle in, I desperately wanted to turn the car around. It's no fun to come home from vacation!!