U-tall

I didn't have wi-fi in Utah at all, so I apologize for the super long post. I just didn't want to spread it out over a few posts because it is all related....sooo...without further ado, here is the Utah part of our trip.

Wednesday:
We arrived Wednesday to Salt Lake.   It was a crazy drive, we had to chain up over Donner pass and it was ridiculous- we had to go 30 mph and it was so snowy and icy it was scary!

There is Andy fiddling with the chains we had to buy at a gas station.
We got to Grandma and Grandpa Monson's (Andy's dad's parents) house the middle of the day.  I love their house because it is really old and looks haunted inside.  It is huge with 5 bedrooms upstairs and 2 bathrooms.

We showered up and went to go to Aunt Laura's house to visit Grandma Cox.  I had not met Grandma Cox yet (Andy's mom's mom) and neither had Sawyer.  We met up with Megan and Andrew (cousins) there and Megan's dad was there as well as Ayshia (she stayed with us for a week last year) as well as her dad Jeremy (andy's cousin) that I hadn't met yet.  We had a good visit with Grandma Cox and she kept asking why Sawyer's hair was so blond and we had to remind her that Andy was really blond growing up :) and went to Chili's afterwards with Megan and Andrew. We love chilis! (And we love Megan and Andrew lol)

Thursday:
We got to sleep in, then we went for a drive.  We went down to Sandy to check out Andy's old house.  His old street barely escaped being demolished for the Real Salt Lake stadium!  At the end of his road is literally the fence for the stadium!

My phone kind of distored it, but you can see the stadium right at the end of the road!  We spent that night at the Bellamy's house and watched basketball.

Friday:
This was my mentoring session with Andee from Crave Photography.  We got there nice and early and she taught me some editing and then we went on a shoot with her niece Kennadee.  It was a lot of fun!  I will do a post just of that part because I have a lot of pictures to share. After the mentoring we went and hung out with Jenny and a lot of the other Tomkinsons in Provo.  It was really fun!!!

Saturday:
We were so sad to go back home :(  We said our goodbyes to Grandma and Grandpa Monson

We hopped in the car and headed up the mountain to Evanston, WY.  A couple minutes as we started up the hill it started snowing.  What a funny opposite to our warm first day in Sacramento!  We headed up to the ranch to see Nicole and her kids, and Elise stopped by (Andy's cousins).  We had a nice visit with them but we had to leave soon to go home.
We made a stop in Woodruff, UT where Andy's mom's family grew up and he spent time as a kid.  We stopped at the house.

Then, we went to go meet Grandpa Cox at the Woodruff Cemetary.

We think Sawyer is looking up to him in heaven in this picture ;)  He didn't last long for some really good pictures because it was cold and probably haunted because he kept crying a lot :(
We hit the road and made it back to Puyallup around 8:30 our time.

We had so much fun on our vacation visiting family and we are sad to go back to the old routine.  Well, I dont know how normal it will be, they just announced today that my company, at&t, bought out T-mobile so sounds like a new adventure is brewing there... :-/

Here are a few things Sawyer did while on vacation:
-Popped his top 2 teeth out
-Learned to crawl up on everything (very annoying)
-Learned to say mamamamama all day instead of babababa.  Then changed to mabamabamaba.  Then changed to just say mamama mostly when around me and not every person or item in sight.  We will see how long that lasts though lol.
-Learned to wave
-Learned to push all buttons with just his thumb, and not his whole hand
It was a big week for him too, and he was such a good baby sleeping the WHOLE time in the car for the 11 hours to Sacramento, then 11ish to Salt Lake, then like 16 to WY and home.