Our Trip to Utah, Part 5: Miscellaneous Pictures

I took a few hundred photos while on vacation, and these don't really fit the categories of my blog posts, but I wanted to share them anyway.

This is a picture of my grandparents' home. My grandfather passed away more than a decade ago, but I still remember how to get there from Temple Square.

Our Trip to Utah, Part 4: Hail

While visiting with our friends, the Wride family, it hailed. I snapped 2 pictures of the boys running around in the hail. I don't know if you can tell from the pictures, but David was yelling "Ow!" because the hail was coming down pretty hard and hurt!






It was so good to see the Wride family! I've missed them!

Our Trip to Utah, Part 3:

The BYU Art Museum

I took the boys to the BYU Art Museum. They had some really neat exhibits including one with modern art pieces made out of packing peanuts, fluorescent lights, and duck sauce packets. They also had an exhibit by the guy who takes the pictures for the "I Spy" books. I think the boys enjoyed that one the most.

Unfortunately, I do not have pictures of those exhibits. As I was taking pictures in the museum, a security guard approached me and told me I was not allowed to photograph anything in the museum. I was happy to comply, but noticed there is not one sign in the entire museum stating this. It would have been nice if they'd had a sign up at the entrance to the museum so that I could have honored their request the entire time.

Anyway, here are a few of the pictures I took of the exhibits on the main floor.

Our Trip to Utah, Part 2:

My newest nephew, Nathan Malaman!

One of my favorite parts of our trip was seeing my newest nephew, Nathan. He is a very happy, beautiful baby. He rarely cried, and when he did, he was easily comforted. The boys loved him and wanted to hold him constantly. Here are a few photos and a couple videos from the University Mall in Orem.

Here's a video of Michael holding Nathan at the University Mall in Orem, Utah. I've never uploaded a video to my blog before, so I hope it works!

Our Trip to Utah, Part 1

I took David, Michael, and A.J. to visit Mandi and her family in Utah during spring break. Here are some pictures of some interesting things we saw during our drive to and from Utah.

A lemonade stand shaped like a lemon.

A Dancing Statue of Liberty.

And our all-time favorite, Zzyzx Road. I wish we had a Zzyzx Road near us when I was a child and was searching for those hard to find letters in the alphabet game!

The kids in the car.

God's Creations.

These pictures do not capture the full beauty of each scene,

but I wanted to share them nonetheless.

Most of these are of the Virgin River Gorge in Arizona, with a few of St. George, Utah, and finally, the sunset in the deserts of Southern California.

A Trip to the Dog Park

John works a good friend who has 5 dogs. We went to the dog park with him and his wife earlier this week, so the kids could play with their dogs. We had a great time!

Michael's First Scout Rank... Done!

Michael received his Tenderfoot badge at a Boy Scout Court of Honor this past Tuesday. It was a small court of honor with only the 11 year-old scouts and their parents. Here are some pictures.