Oh but wait....

yes we managed to squeeze in a few other things that could not be left out....

 Namely.....

Hot Air Balloons.....ok so we just saw it we didn't ride it....but apparently it is on Andrew's bucket list so hey you never know.....

Little Cottonwood Canyon & Snowbird (no riding ski lifts this time....but we did manage to billow smoke from our  brakes on the drive down so had an impromptu stop!) Still, snow in July was pretty exciting.....

Rainbows.....well one rainbow.....that turned into a double rainbow and very briefly we saw the entire arch too....it was pretty cool...well we thought so:)

an afternoon in the lovely Liberty Park.....

 

.......we went to my very favorite store (Whole Foods)....yeah yeah, it could have been the only food store we could find, but it still is my very favorite grocery store......and this one was extra cool with this wrought iron staircase/water tower thing out front....

 

...which of course the kids had to climb and pose all over.....

so we had our delicious picnic lunch (although the "healthy" mayo was not a huge success.....) 

 played lacrosse.....well I'm not totally sure this part was lacrosse....

but between the newly discovered lacrosse skills and a bikini clad lady sleeping in the middle of the field (ok they were playing there long before she came and planted herself right in the middle of them) ...the boys definitely amused themselves....

  all the kids climbed trees.....well attempted to climb trees.....Andrew actually had to step in and launch most of the kids into the tree:)

  Utah was fun - a little cooler (though a lot warmer than I expected!!) than AZ and lots of fun things to do every day.....the girls had tons and tons of fun, thanks mainly to Sydney:) and the boys loved their camps and EFY and getting to hang out with each other and with Tanner and Andrew and I loved doing stuff with Merlin and Shannon (including hanging a TV....they have only just moved into the house!)

 

....and of course getting to try out some of Merlin's favorite food places:)

Good times:)