On our way home from Boise, we spent another week in Utah visiting The Stoddard Clan and our good friends the Clarks.

We spent a day at Lagoon and had a good time. Brooklyn was tall enough to finally ride some bigger rides. Jackson enjoyed kiddie land, and Tyson enjoyed being pushed around in a stroller all day. I even got a some exciting fun rides thanks to my niece Hailey who wanted someone to go with her.


The next day we headed down to temple square and the new mall in SLC.



 We spent the rest of the week hanging out with the family going to the parade, rodeo, and having a bbq. It was fun having all the Stoddard cousins together. Carly and Tyson are missing from the photo below.

 One day while we were there we were able to catch up with the Clarks.The Clark's are our best friends from PA. We hadn't seen them in a very long time and last time we did they only had two kids. Now we each have four with the clark's expecting on in the fall. So we took our 8 kids bowling at the Wilkinson Center at BYU and had a good time catching up.

Here are the kids all together minus Tyson.


And Maddie and Brooklyn. Best Friends Forever.

While in Utah we went to This Is The Place Park and the kids really enjoyed being in the pioneer village. Jackson was such a trooper and walked almost the whole time. Here are some pictures from that day.

While we were in Utah this summer, Mark and I attended  a class reunion at BYU.  We took Brooklyn and Brady with us to hike the Y and  go to a reunion BBQ. Brady was very enthusiastic and energetic and practically ran up the mountain. Brooklyn was not so thrilled to be walking that far and at at such an incline. It was harder then I thought it would be and I definitely should have done it my freshman year of college when I was in better shape. But once to the top it was all worth it to see the view. Both the kids ran all the way down and were ready to pig out at the BBQ.