Utah in July

So the kids and I were in Utah for most of the month of July, Dusty joined us the last 10 days. It was great to spend time with both of our families and to let the kids play so much with all of their cousins. We were able visit some friends as well and to go out a couple of times. It is always nice to visit home and to be near the Utah valley mountains that I love so much- Dusty actually hike Timpanogos Mt.-more to come. I have a bunch of pictures to post, but it will probably take me a couple of posts to get them all in. These pictures are some that my sister Jessy took of all the nieces and nephews on my side.








Being in Utah for so long got me thinking. . . there are a lot of ways you can tell that you are in Utah i.e. the huge mountains to the East, bill boards about food storage, the "knee length shorts" store on the corner; being able to see three LDS temples at the same time, but the #1 way to tell if you are in Utah is: the Book of Morman reading chart at the grocery store check out. It is always good to be in "Happy Valley". We had a great month.

You know you live in the desert when. . .

you drive through some heavy rain on a road trip and your three and half year old asks "Mom, what are those black things going back and forth on the window?"

We'll just say I explined why the "wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish all through the town."!!