Over lots of rivers and woods to Grandma's house we go

This year we went to Utah again to see both sets of grandparents for our summer vacation. Evan and I were so excited to go on vacation. Bennet being only 3.75 months old probably didn't know what was going on. We had been talking to Evan about our upcoming vacation for days. He was so excited that the night before we couldn't get him to go to sleep till almost midnight and when we woke him up at 5 am the next day he was wide awake and and talking a mile a minute about going super fast on a plane to grandma's house.











Both Evan and Bennet were so good on the long flight from Virginia to Utah. Evan was so happy to have a new Look and See book for the plane ride. That, a fruit cup, and some new kid friendly headphones to watch nickelodeon with, and he was in heaven. We met Grandma and Grandpa Saunders at the airport. Our coming was a big surprise for Grandpa Saunders who didn't know we were coming to see them before Grandma moved to Kurdistan to be with Grandpa while he works over there.

We had so much fun at Grandma Heather's house. Grandma took us to the ice cream store, the chocolate store, and the french fry store while we were there. Grandma even took Evan along with Jonny, Tommy, and Ethan to Evan's first ever movie in a movie theater complete with popcorn and bubble juice. We had lots of fun swimming in the pool at Jonny and Tommy's apartment complex before they moved out to go take care of Grandma heather's house while she and Grandpa are living in Kurdistan. At the aquarium we saw lots of fun fish, seahorses, and we even got to pet a stingray. Evan loved swinging on the big green swing that Grandpa Jon built and playing squirt guns with Jonny and Tommy in Grandpa Jon's backyard. Grandma Heather knew that Evan had missed the fireworks on the fourth of July because he was too tired to stay up and watch them, so she bought a big box of fireworks for the boys to share. Evan, Jonny, Tommy, and Ethan all took turns picking fireworks out of the box and Uncle Jon lit them for us. We have so much fun when we go to Utah to visit our family and we can't wait till we get to play with them again.