Utah 2009!

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We finally made it out to visit everyone in Utah. With most of my family in Oregon, our vacations usually take us there, but it had been 3 years since we went back to the "Motherland" and home of where Dave and I met. We had a great time visiting everyone. The kids did pretty well on the trip. I guess a few episodes of Spongebob on the Ipod can really make a difference.

While we didn't make it to Provo (I wanted to get some photos of our first apartment for the scrapbook-my computerized version of one at least) we did get to do quite a few things. We had a nice family dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Porters. We visited Temple Square (where the highlight for the boys was playing with a rolly-polly bug in one of the flowerbeds).

We also went to "This is the Place" state park. I remember going as a child, so it was fun to go back. The kids all got to ride on a pony (it was included in the admission price!). Sherri came with us and got an old fashioned shave at the barbers!

The boys went to see "UP" in 3-D. Dave's cousin Ben works for Pixar and helped work on this movie, which made it extra exciting. Audrey and I sat it out after realizing they would charge us full price ($7.50) for a 1 year old who can't manage to stare at a screen for more than 15 seconds.

We went with Grandma and Grandpa Parker to the duck ponds. Grandpa has a goose he regularly feeds that only seems to be friendly to him. He'll bite anyone else who gets too close. It was pretty funny.

We went to the Hill Air Force Base Museum. That place has tons of planes! There was a full version of the C130 (Hercules), which Logan has a model of at home. There was also a plane named Audrey! The boys had a great time seeing everything. They even got to dress up like "Army guys" and astronauts.

We got to go see the Oquirrh (O-ker) Mountain Temple Open House. It was amazing! It's fun to be able to see the different temple interiors and how unique they all are. Afterwards we enjoyed eating at "Five Guys" burgers. I've been hearing about them like crazy lately so I was excited to try it out. I thought the food was pretty good. The best part was the bags of fresh potatoes that they use as a line divider when you order. They had a sign on the wall that said "Today's potatoes are from Driggs, Idaho." No wonder they were so good! My dad grew up in that area, so potatoes from there are automatically better! His cousin, Paris, has a huge potato farm out there. I wonder if we were eating Paris' potatoes?