Utah fun

Last weekend we flew to Utah and spent many early mornings and late nights with lots of family and friends. Friday we went straight to my friend Emma's house, for which the trip was for. Emma and her husband Nate were being sealed together on Saturday. After Emma's we went to see the Seaman family. This picture of Annie in their swing was the only one taken that day.


Saturday morning my sister Lori and I ran a 5k with her husband's boss and his son. Lori, Kurt, Brooklyn and Christina came down to watch the kids while we went to the temple. Here is Max, Brent, Lori and I before the race.


Lori finishing the race.


Me finishing the race.


Lori and I after. We are preparing for a half marathon in august. I forgot to factor in the altitude and then there was an unexpected hill, but between the two I think I did pretty good. After the race we went to Kneaders for their yummy French toast.


Emma and I with her daughter Madison after the sealing. It was such a beautiful sealing, especially since Maddie was sealed to them as well.


Job and I with the cute family; Lon, Emma, Maddie, Nate and Isabel.


Later that day we picked up my Grandma Beth and went to Lehi to eat at Porter's Place. Porter Rockwell, a friend and bodyguard to the Prophet Joseph Smith and from which Porter got his name, created a hotel and restaurant and this is suppose to be similar to his I guess.


The whole gang before dinner; Grandma Beth, Job, Porter, Brooklyn, Christina, Kurt, Annie and I.


At dinner.


After dinner Porter and Brooklyn were being super cute on this step by the restaurant.









After dinner we had to get ice cream, especially since we had been talking about it for the few hours prior to dinner. Here is Job and Porter enjoying the yumminess.


Grandma Beth, Christina, Kurt, Lori and Brooklyn.



Two pictures of Grandma with her great grandkids.








We hung out in front of the ice cream place for a while and let the kids enjoy running around. Brooklyn with her funny run.








Kurt and Brooklyn dancing to the outside music.

















Sunday we went to the Oqquirh Mountain Temple and had a picnic. I took a bunch of pictures and tried to get some of the kids with the temple. Enjoy.

































Sunday we went to our good friends, the Seibachs, for dinner and games. A picture of the gang; Rebecca with Andrea on her month, Jacob with Katrina, Jaron, Job, Porter, Annie and I.


Annie and Maddie on Monday. The girls are about 3 weeks apart. We spent part of Monday with Emma and her family before heading back home.


Some pictures from the flight.





Porter had a pretty good set up.





Some cute pictures from the weekend.








Porter and Brooklyn found these buckets and loved playing with them.












And then I found this random picture of Lori and Kurt.


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Dinosaur Park

A couple months ago Kelly came to the Dinosaur Park with the kids and I out in Cabazon. It was nice to get out of the house and get some sun.


Porter was a little afraid to go near the dinosaurs.





This was the only one he would touch.


They had a Dino dig where you dig in sand for big rocks with Dino names and return them for prizes. Porter just wanted to play in the sand so I ended up finding the Dino rocks.





Here is Porter with his Dino rock.


They had a mining area and Porter loved playing in the water and with thhe little toys and rocks.


Annie got the closest to the dinos. Good thing Aunt Kelly was there to keep her from getting eaten.


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Cousin Races

Porter loves to play with his cousins. A few weeks ago we had most of them at our house and we were doing races on the lawn. Some of the races were crab crawling, bunny hop, frog jumping and running. As you can see by the pictures, Porter may have been last in all the races but he loves to participate with the older kids.































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Popsicles

I made coconut cream pops the other day and thought I might let you enjoy the recipe and some cute pics of us enjoying them. Porter loved them but Job is not a big fan of Popsicles in general.





Porter with his cousin Aubrey, she played with us yesterday while her mom was taking a final.





Coconut cream pops

Cinnamon to taste
2 tsp coconut extract
1/2 cup shredded coconut
12 oz Fat free evaporated milk
14 oz lite coconut milk
1/2 cup powdered sugar

Mix together and pour in molds

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Cheesapalooza

We had the first Jones' Cheesapalooza last night. There were six couples and each couple brought a cheese and drink. Job and I added crackers, apples and brownies. It was a ton of fun.








Most of the cheeses all lined up. They were so yummy!








We gave awards out. Here is a list of some ideas. As they ate the cheeses they would write next to it what award they thought it should get.








Ashley, Jared, Joseph, and Kelly Jones. (2 of the 5 Jones' boys)








Job, Lindsey and Karson Gaskins








Brenden Gaskins, Jennie and Robby Krepps








Robby Krepps, David and Julie Hettinger








We then played a game of pictionary. We wrote words or phrases down (girls for the boys and boys for the girls) and alternated team's turns. We kept adding to each other's stacks as needed or wanted. Some of the words were hard, like Jennie here is drawing micro management.








The Hettingers playing pictionary








A few pictures of some of the cheeses and what got written by them


























A list of the cheeses: buffalo wing cheddar, gouda, le gruyere, Swiss, original Swiss, reserved cheddar, easy cheese, Brie, fontina, dubliner, and missing from the list is a cheese from a tub, maybe a cheddar kind.








Cheesapalooza was tons of fun and totally on my do often list. Try it out.

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