Utah Trip in June

We went up to Utah again for Westley and Alejandra's Utah open house. Sadly, it was not well attended and sadly-er, I cannot find the pictures from that night. 

Corey had flown up because he scheduled a work trip that coincided with it. He was to see stores in Northern Utah (like Logan) and also Idaho. This meant that he was not with us in Utah for most of the time, only on the day of the open house. 

Travis and Eliza helped me drive. We stayed the night on the way there in Cortez CO and on the way home in the same place we had stayed on the trip out for Leah's wedding.

When we got to Utah, we met up with Westley and Alejandra and went swimming at their community pool.  We stayed with John and Allison.  We spent a day driving up through Provo Canyon/Park City Loop.  We ate at Village Baker and the BYU Creamery and went to an art museum in Provo.  We also went to the Provo Rec Center for swimming where they have this huge water park.  It was a really nice trip.
 

 

Post Wedding

Our drive home from Utah was uneventful. We left Sunday morning and drove to Moriarty New Mexico where we stayed the night. We stopped there so we could get home earlier, as Nathan had a baseball game that night that we didn't want him to miss and also so Annmarie could go to gymnastics, since she had a meet coming up the last weekend in April. Corey had to take Willy to get his rabies shot and other vaccines, and took a picture of Willy curled up on the floor of the car. Travis asked his girlfriend Allison to the high school prom and Annmarie went along for the ride.

 

Utah Trip Day One

We took the kids out of school on a Wednesday in order to drive up to Utah for my niece Leah's wedding. Leah is Jordan's older daughter and second child.  She is marrying Ethan Tenney. We left really early and made the whole drive there in one day, and it was a LONG drive.  We were able to take turns between our four drivers though, so that helped.  We stopped in Amarillo at Buc-ees for a bathroom break and also bought some Icees there as a treat before heading to a park across the street to eat the lunch we had packed. We got to John and Allison's pretty late and went straight to bed.

 

McAllen Temple

McAllen Texas got a temple. That is where both Corey and Toby served their missions. Toby flew out to Dallas over Labor Day weekend and then he and Corey took off after church to drive down to McAllen to tour the temple. They were gone on Monday and came back Tuesday and then Toby left. They got to explore their old mission stomping ground and spend some quality time together.

 

Post Reunion

After the reunion, some of us drove up to Provo to spend a day at John and Allison's. Our family did that and we also drove up to Riverton for a brief drive around of our old neighborhood. We spent a few hours on BYU campus too. After that, we drove home on Saturday and Sunday. We stopped in Moriarty, New Mexico Saturday night. It's such a long drive from Texas to Utah. Someday, it would be nice to fly.

 

Fowles Family Reunion 2023 The Drive Out

Our Fowles Family Reunion this year was in Mt. Pleasant Utah. Adam found us a cabin up the mountain in Mt. Pleasant and booked it. We left early the morning of July 9th, the day after Travis got home from FSY and Eliza got home from choir camp. We drove to Farmington New Mexico and stayed there and then drove the rest of the way on Monday, arriving in Mt. Pleasant in the afternoon. Travis got some driving time on the way.