Summer Trip, Part Four, California--King Reunion Family Pictures

I took a few pictures during our family picture time.  Travis kept climbing the trees and the kids were all messing around.  I got one picture of the girl cousins and one of the boys. 

Summer Trip, Part Three, California--King Reunion

We each made a sign for Corey's mom that had where we had traveled from for the reunion and how far it was.  Nathan wasn't having it.  He didn't know these people and didn't like being there (at first).  He did eventually warm up.  We enjoyed spending time at the park in Tehachapi for a small town 4th of July celebration.  Made it easy not to have to plan any festivities, we just did what was already in place!  Like trampoline jumping with bungee cords (I don't really know what this is called).  And we ate sandwiches and other food that was prepared by Marti and Jamie beforehand.  Later in the day, we had a barbecue at Zach and Leslie's after we had done family pictures in the mountains and then most of the family went to see fireworks.  I stayed behind to put a cranky Annmarie and Nathan to bed.

Summer Trip, Part Four, California

After our lovely time in Utah, we drove down to Southern California to spend time with Corey's side of the family.  On the way, we had to make an obligatory pit stop for lunch at the St. George In-N-Out to see our friend Matt Pape, the manager there, and have some good food, of course (and access to clean bathrooms!). 

Summer Trip, Part Three, Utah--Fellows Side

When one is in Utah, one must always attend a large gathering of the Fellows side of the family (that would be my mother's side of the family).  Fortunately, my cousin's child was getting baptized on a day we would be in town, so we of course made it a point to attend the baptism and the luncheon afterwards.  Corey took the boys to do temple baptisms in the morning before the baptism at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, which was on the way between Provo and West Jordan.  Then Corey and Andy and John (my husband, my cousin, and my brother) and Mark (my cousin's husband) took all the kids to a movie while the moms stayed behind and had some quiet girl time.  It was quite enjoyable.  I love spending time with my Fellows cousins!

Summer Trip, Part Three, Utah--BYU

 

When one is in Utah, one must always visit BYU campus.  We must always take a picture with the Y on the mountain in the background and visit the creamery for some yummy ice cream.  And we must always find a statue of Cosmo to take a picture with (or a painting, or maybe even the real Cosmo).

Summer Trip, Part Three, Utah--Hanging with the Howells

So before we moved away from Utah, we became really good friends with this family, the Howells.  They had moved into our neighborhood earlier that year and had six kids all close in age to our kids, mostly the same gender too.  We've kept in touch (barely, though, admittedly) and when we were in Utah, we had to make sure to stop in and see them.  It was a lot of fun, but we weren't able to stay for very long.  At least we did get to see them though.

Summer Trip, Part Three, Utah--Jordan's Grave

On one of the days we were in Utah, we went up to Salt Lake City to visit Jordan's grave.  We stopped at Banbury Cross donuts on the way and got some sweet treats to eat while there.  I'm sure Jordan would have appreciated us bringing him donuts.