Official Texans!

We are Deep in the Heart of Texas again! We’ve known that we were going to move to Texas for the past 7 months and it’s actually here now.  The movers came and packed everything up and loaded the truck  in Orem on June 29 and 30.  Then we spent 8 days in Southern Utah with our families, which was wonderful!  We arrived in Texas on Wed. night and the movers delivered everything to us on Thursday and we spent the next few days unpacking and organizing!  We hope to only be in this apartment for a few months while we try to find a house, so sadly lots of our stuff is still in boxes. We are feeling a little more settled now though. Zak started his first day of work yesterday and is enjoying it so far.

Kennedy thought it was pretty cool she was surrounded by boxes! A few pictures from St. George, the night before we left:

Bree, Allie and Kennedy eating yummy plums right off the tree

First time jumping with dad

Grandma Barb and Grandpa Kerry

The box chaos in Texas!   

Lake Powell

We sure love going to Lake Powell, we have so many fun memories there! We’ll admit it was a lot more work with an almost one year old, but we still had a blast! We went July 1-5 with Zak’s family. It was a nice vacation before we headed down to Texas.

(Sorry for the picture overload, but lots of fun pictures were taken.)Love this girl!What’s Powell without some card games? Jumping off the top!

Zak surfing

Jer took us on a helicopter ride over Lake Powell. It was beautiful! Here is a view of Gunsight from the chopper.

Chillin on the rocks Doesn’t she look so cute in her swim attire!Having fun with cousin Bree

We stayed up Warm Creek most of the time, but the last night we parked the houseboat at Antelope Marina to watch the fireworks.

Thanks for the fun trip Jer and Sharla!

Timpanogos Caves

We went up to Timpanogos Caves last Monday, another thing we wanted to do before leaving Utah. The hike was good and the cave was awesome. It was nice being up in beautiful American Fork Canyon. Yay! We’re almost there!

Just outside of the caves, we thought it was going to be pretty cold inside, so we came a little too prepared.

On Sunday evening we decided to drive up Provo Canyon one more time and see the beautiful mountains again, we sure are going to miss them! We also saw a moose off the side of the road

Our Weekend

Our time left in Utah is quickly fading away, so we are trying to fit in as much as we can before we leave. We had a busy but fun weekend up in Northern Utah. Zak has always wanted to go to the Kennecott Copper Mine/Bingham Mine (the largest copper mine in the world), so we finally made it over there on Friday. It really is amazing to see the open pit mine and learn more about all that is done there!

It was quite windy as you can see, but a nice day considering it wasn’t raining for once.It’s crazy to think there used to be a mountain where the pit is nowThis is one of the tires from the mining trucks, they are huge and cost $25,000 each.After the mine we headed up to Tremonton to spend the evening with my cousin Kilee and her husband Cody. We had fun visiting, eating and playing games. Thanks for the fun night guys! This is a beautiful view out their backyard.The next morning we headed up to Bear Lake for the day, the weather was a bit cold and rainy. But we still had fun driving around the whole lake and walking in the water on the Idaho side. Kennedy loved it and didn’t want to just walk in it (she took a seat right after this picture was taken). We made sure to enjoy a yummy Raspberry Shake while we were there too. Cache Valley is so pretty and green right now!

Dad up to his old tricks again. I wonder why she loves her daddy so much? He’s always the fun one. Yes, it freaks me out when he does this, but Kennedy LOVES it, as the picture shows!

We ended the weekend at a family get together in Ogden, I didn’t get any pictures, but we had a fun time with everyone. Kennedy was in heaven crawling around exploring new territory and getting lots of attention after being in the car most of the day.

Tulips

I can’t believe how many different types of tulips there are. Zak found this goose and ducklings and had fun following them around taking pictures. Our friend’s little girl Addie, isn’t she cute!Kennedy wanted to pick all the pretty flowers

These are a bit old, but I still wanted to post the pictures of the beautiful tulips. We sure enjoyed seeing all the pretty flowers.

Lions, Tigers and Bears

We went to the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum on campus a few weeks ago and had fun looking at all the animals, Kennedy liked pointing at all of them and saying ooooo, ooohhh.