UTAH, Part 1: Mapleton Days

On June 8th, which was the last day of school and Beckam's birthday (nothing like adding one more thing to an already busy day) we headed off on our annual journey.  Just like years past, the kids did great traveling the 35 hours, but unlike other years, we spread it out over 4 days instead of 3, including a stop in our old stomping grounds of Denver to reunite with the Dart family.

The reason we went to UT earlier this year was to celebrate Nate's littlest brother, Skyler get married to darling Mandy.  We were SO happy to be there and witness such a great couple be united forever.

If Sky wouldn't have snatched Mandy up, I'm pretty sure Jaxton would have.

She just melts my heart.  Enough said.

BFF's!

Sky and Mandy with all the nieces and nephews.  Good lookin' crew, eh?

Cuteness at it's finest.

These 4 fella's clean up pretty nice.

All three of them hold my heart in their hands.

My #1 girl.

And we still love each other.

He's not too bad on the eyes plus he's got skills on the b-ball court.  I think I'll keep him.

I like to title this one "Passion" -- we look so intense.

After the wedding was over we filled the next 1 1/2 weeks in Mapleton living it up.  We hiked the "Y," the older boys went to a BYU basketball camp where Jaxton's moves were described as "impressive" and where Mac earned the Cougar Award for his age group,

went to an insanely crowded and uber hot chalk festival,

visited the awesome Spanish Fork splash pad and park,

learned stuff at the Life Science museum,

ate out at about every restaurant in Utah county and just hung out with family.  Good times!

And maybe the most exciting thing was that Nate and I spent our first night away together since our 1st anniversary.  We headed to Park City and did more in about 18 hours with just us two then we could have done in a week with our whole brood.

Stay tuned for UTAH, Part 2: Petersboro