The End!

After having been across the Wasatch Front, seeing and doing everything we possibly could in the short time we had, we headed back home! It was a long experience in itself, three separate flights all of which were delayed and we didn't get in till after midnight, made for a very long day! We will now be spending the rest of the summer home!

Swimming!

Made a trip to the Roy Aquatic center, which is a swimming area with pools, slides, and kid area. Lucas had lots of fun, was able to go down the slide with his dad. He liked walking around in the shallow areas of the pool, and splashing water. We had lots of fun in the sun!

Wedding!

Here are pictures from Craig's brothers' wedding Kyle and his bride Shelina. They were married in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. We have never been to this temple so it was neat to see the inside of this temple, it was beautiful. The reception was in a backyard which was a really pretty setting for a summer wedding.
Lucas and Elise were the etertainment for part of the night. Elise has a backpack leash, she was wearing and Lucas would grab hold of the end of the leash, it looked like he was walking Elise. Most of the time Elise was actually dragging Lucas along, Lucas was having a hard time keeping up.
I thought Lucas looked quite handsome in his black shirt and pants, suspenders and pink tie. I have to admit I was a pretty proud mom and wife, I thought our little family look pretty good matching each other, which gave us an opportunity to take another family picture. It was a very busy day, but very nice and enjoyable.

Pictures

We went to the park wtih Craig's family to take pictures. Lately we have been looking through all of our pictures and we have noticed that we have very few pictures of our little family. It was nice to go to the park get some pictures taken. Elise, Lucas cousin would try to hold Lucas hand, Lucas would not cooperate long enough for us to get a decent picture. Here are other pictures taken at the park. We also had a picnic with the Swenson clan, and this is a picture of Grandpa Boyd grilling while he is wearing his awsome apron made by Lucas.

BYU!

We took a trip down to Provo one of the days that we were in Utah. We walked around campus, had lunch at the creamery and of course had ice-cream. My personal favorite is Coconut Joy. It tastes like an Almond Joy, but better, because it's ice-cream. Lucas loved it, too! He also liked the fries and hamburger. Not the most nutritious lunch we have every given him, but we were on vacation so we splurged. To end our little excursion, we had to take pictures of father and son at the cougar and the BYU sign. After we took the pictures of Craig and Lucas next to the cougar, Lucas starting touching the cougar, they turned out to be really cute pictures, it almost looks like he is shaking the cougars paw. Fun trip!

The Tree House!/Barbecue

Due to the limited time we had in Utah and being the planner that I am, I had the things that we wanted to do scheduled out, so that we would be sure to do them. One of these things was going to the Tree House. It is in Ogden across the street from the temple. The Tree House has been around for a long time, I remember going when I was a kid when it was in the Ogden Mall. Lucas is still small and there aren't a whole lot of places you can take him to play and explore. I thought that it would be fun to take him and let him wander around and explore and if you go on certain days days, during certain times you get a discount. We took him the Monday after we got into town. It was a complete success!!! He loved it, they had so many things you could do and play with. They also had story time, which I didn't think he would sit still for, but he sat on his daddy's lap and listened so intently. He had lots and lots of fun, he played with musical toys, chess pieces that were just about as big as him, rode a bull and horse, and did many other things. We will definitely be going again when were back in Utah.

We stopped at my house after the Tree House had a barbecue. We had steak, which Craig (of course) cooked and they were wonderful. Lucas also played in the kiddie pool with Eevee and that was pretty entertaining. Lucas liked to dumped the water out of the kiddie pool and onto the deck, he also liked splashing and getting in the pool and then trying to figure out how to get out.

Back to Utah!

The second week of July we headed back to Utah, for Craig's brothers wedding. Craig was able to come with us and we were able to fly out of State College which was really nice. Flying out of State College is an experience. It is a tiny airport and you have to walk out to the plane and walk up the stairs. Our flights went well and we arrived in Salt Lake City . Lucas did pretty well on the flights. During our layovers he loved pushing the stroller around and walking on the moving walkway that was along the gates. Lucas just started walking the Sunday before we left so we didn't tell our folks, his grandparents. When we arrived at the airport we took the elevator and had Lucas walk off, it was pretty cute.