PROVO, UT!

Provo, Utah - the final leg of the summer vacation! We arrived Monday, July 6th and were supposed to come home Thursday, but decided to stay until Saturday - Taryn was sweet and talked us into it! Glad she did!

Sometime during the week we visited Ashley and went back to the kids favorite park and then we picked up pizzas and ate dinner at Ashley's. The kids love playing with their cousin Abigail.

Bryant set us up with a golf cart tour of BYU. Emma really wanted to see the campus. Before the tour we took the kids and ate dinner in the cafeteria there with Bryant's family. Before we went inside to eat lunch Emma randomly ran into Hoku and Anni - she was so excited to see them and go back to their dorm room and see how fun its going to be before she heads off to BYU Cougaretee camp!

After lunch and the tour we ended up going to see the baseball camp for a few minutes - mostly to try and find Logan Scwenke for Tishia, While watching we noticed the kids pitching and they were keeping track of how fast they threw the balls, so I went up and asked the coach if Eli could pitch when they were done - he was awesome and had no issues with it. Sadly, someone unplugged the pitching timer but he had fun pitching on a college mound - poor kid couldn't get the ball to reach home plate, but that's ok! He's got time to get it there!





My creative juices started flowing and I got really braved and found a college student who was willing to help us find a college class schedule - I was hoping we could find a dance class that Emma could watch, but after contacting the teachers - they actually let her participate in the classes. She went to a contemporary class and to a jazz class. Both teachers were really impressed with her and told her to keep working hard and she would do great at BYU. The dancers were all sweet with her and encouraging. It always made her smile when they would ask her for help or ask her to partner with them. One time they had to get partners and critique each other and she actually told the girl what to work on - she is braver than I am! She loved how each class started with a prayer too. So grateful she had this opportunity to do this! I am also so proud of her for being confident enough to go into a college class and dance with girls who have been dancing longer than she has been alive! She impresses me!








We finally got the chance to hike the Y! It was a lot harder than I thought. It was hotter than we expected. There were a few complaints on the way up, but they were happy when we made it to the top and then on the way back down a storm was coming and so it got cloudy and the way down was awesome and the kids loved that part!

We went to the BYU musuem and the kids loved that and we ate inside the Wilkinson center and also hit up bowling! The kids pretty much think BYU is awesome! 

 







We made a couple trips to the creamery and got fun ice cream flavors while we were there and also daily trips to Sodalicious. The last night Emma babysat all the kids while Jared and I went to dinner with Bryant and Taryn. We had such a great time with their family in Utah! Can't wait to do it again!