Back in the game

Well, we're finally back in the blogging world and I have a ton of catching up to do.  I'm going to have to break this up into a few posts!  To keep you in the loop- Andy finished residency on June 23 and we packed up and left Omaha on June 25.  The next 5 weeks were filled with lots of fun and craziness (and a whole lot of miles on our car!).  We headed to Salt Lake to spend some time with Andy's family (but not before a detour to Las Vegas to find a suitable place to live).  Then we headed up to my parent's home in Tremonton.  Then we went back to Salt Lake, then up to Bear Lake, then back to SL, back to Tremonton, back to SL, back to Las Vegas.  Whew.  Needless to say, we were more than ready to be out of the car and in our own beds by the time we moved in!  Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our extended vacation:

 Ben being a good uncle and carrying sleepy Rachel around Las Vegas for us.

 Fourth of July concert and fireworks.  I love my girlies!

 Eden had so much fun playing at Bear Lake with her cousins- well, most of the time anyway!

 Rachel also loved Bear Lake!

 We went boating on the lake and Eden was brave enough to try tubing for the first time.

 We also went camping on Hyrum Lake with my family and Eden loved playing with her other cousins (which I didn't get any pictures of) and playing in the lake.  She's quite the little fish!

 This is the beautiful view from our campsite in Hyrum.  I don't entirely dislike camping if this is what I get to see when I wake up in the morning.  Plus I got to be with my whole entire family, which doesn't happen very often and it was great!

More pictures to come....

Last hurrah of summer

Last weekend Andy had a few days off so we decided to go to on a mini vacation in central Nebraska. Andy and Eden wanted to go camping and I'm more of a hotel girl. We decided to compromise and get a little cabin at a KOA. This ended up being a much better idea than a tent as it was extremely rainy both nights we were there and I think we would have been washed away in our tent.

We spent Friday in Grand Island looking around and found a really neat park with a playground called Kid's Kingdom. It was huge and had a castle, a pirate ship, a tree house, a fort, a barn and probably some other things as well. Eden really had a lot of fun playing there.

On Saturday we went to Hastings to celebrate the town's Kool-Aid Days. Hastings is the original birthplace of Kool-Aid, which is Andy's beverage of choice most of the time (unless there's a Dr. Pepper close by). We really had a lot of fun. We got to visit the World's Largest Kool-Aid Stand (with over 14 flavors of kool-aid) and play carnival games and meet the Kool-Aid man. Eden got to play in a bounce house and get her face painted too. In the evening they had a classic car show and then a band called Yesterday and Today played Beatles music and they set off fireworks. We had a good time.

(That's part of the Kool-Aid stand in the background) They had every flavor of Kool-Aid imaginable. My personal favorite is Mango, but it's hard to find in stores.

Of course, after that, it was back to work for Andy. I've only seen him briefly a few times since then. We're hoping to go back next year!