Family Reunion (Pre-Reunion)

So I have way too many good pictures for just one blog post; this may become two or three posts. I wanted to share some of the things that my family did before the actual reunion.



Here Whitney is reading with my dad. She has always liked books, but now she seems to love them. Of course, all our books are going to have rips and drool stains and whatnot on them. Oh well.



During this one trip, Whitney was able to meet all of her living great-grandparents. We stopped in Payette, Idaho for two days because that is where Courtney's grandparents live and we wanted to visit them. Thankfully, Whitney was a good little guest for the most part. And none of us got very many mosquito bites, hooray.



It was Conner's eighth birthday on Saturday and Erin, my little sister, made him this cool Mario cake. I wish I was that talented and could make cool designed cakes. It looked very yummy and quite realistic. Conner was impressed.



We went to a bunch of museums that are right here in Provo, but I only got pictures at the Paleontology museum right next to BYU's stadium. So I have a couple of pictures from there. Whitney was pretty excited at seeing all the dinosaur bones and fossils and things they have there. We also went to the Bean museum and the Eyering Science Center for all you BYU fans out there.



Where are we hiding?



Whitney touching a tortoise shell and smiling at the camera at the same time (a miracle).



We also went to Bridal Veil Falls one evening. Will and I aren't much hikers, so we just looked at the falls from the bottom. It was really pretty. We dipped Whitney's feet into the water and she was not a fan at all. We have a video of her crying; I guess the water was too cold for her.



Will's grandfather lives right outside of Salt Lake City. Courtney had only met him twice and was excited for Whitney to meet great-grandpa Reeve. Whitney has been having some stranger anxiety lately, so it took her a little while to get use to all these new people from the trip. But she seems happy and excited to be with her great grandparents.



And finally, while the boys all went golfing, the girls had to get together. Whitney got her toenails painted for the first time. So she is now a woman, or something like that. I better go. I have a baby who needs her nap. But I will post more of our adventures in Utah later.