"Excitement and Freaky" in UTAH!

We just spent the whole month of July in Utah! Every day was filled with adventure, fun, and very few responsibilities!

Let me try to summarize our fun week by week:

WEEK 1 (July 2-9): The Rich Family spent the week together at a condo in Deer Valley. Just being all together was quite a feat! Mindy & Jeff came from Thailand, Jesse took a week off EFY and Laren missed work just for us!

We watched the Fourth of July Parade in downtown Park City, went swimming at the incredible pool in Kamas, played Bowling, Golf & Tennis on Jesse's Wii (Nintendo), had a professional picture taken of the family, and just played a LOT. The uninterrupted time was just priceless and our kids will have memories of that for a VERY long time!

WEEK 2 (July 10-15): We got to know our Croshaw cousins again! Emily, Spencer & Jeff came up from Las Vegas, Suzy & Nels from Cedar City and Laurie & Fred from around the corner. Who knew grown adults could have SO much fun with a kiddie pool & a slip-n-slide? I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time! We fed each other chocolate pudding, launched water balloons, played soccer on the church lawn and ate some DELICIOUS food!

Mom & Dad Rich took the whole group to LAGOON! Being there as a Mom was very different than when I was there as a 17-year-old daredevil! I DID go on the new rollercoaster "Wicked" and liked it a lot more than I thought I would! At the end of the day, we tearfully said goodbye to Mindy & Jeff's family, heading back to Bangkok.

We finished out the week with the Croshaw Family Reunion at the Church camp in Heber City. Listening to the barbershop quartet while enjoying nature was wonderful. Andrew shared his presentation about LaMont Croshaw and everyone was in tears! Being in the mountains was a great reminder that kids hardly need a thing to have fun! Up there, they were perfectly happy to wander through the woods with a stick and some rocks! Oh, I am just so blessed to be a part of this family - they are such choice people and I hope I can become like them someday.