Manti Trip

This last May Jared's cousin Kayla Barclay got married! So we drove down to Manti for the wedding. It was alot of fun and I really wish I would have taken more pictures of what we did. I guess writing it down will have to suffice. Jared took work off on Friday and Saturday but he had to work Thursday night. Jacob (Jared's little brother) was also throwing shot put and discus in the State High School Track Meet on Thursday night at Boise State. So we started the weekend off by watching Jake do awesome at State that night. Then Jared's mom and Dad took Kate and Ty home with them and I took Jared to work. Bright and early Friday morning at 6:30 am I picked up Jared from work and drove down to Paul. Jared took a little nap and then we all piled into a couple vehicles turned on the Dora the Explorer movies for the kids and drove to Manti.

The next morning the Jake and Josh (being the awesome uncles that they are) took care of Kate and Ty while we went to a 7 am Endowment Session. After the Session while we were in the Celestial Room one of the sealers asked us to come and do a Sealing session. So we were able to do sealings up until about 5 minutes before Kayla and Tyson's Wedding. : ) It was awesome to not only see another family member sealed For Time and all Eternity to a loving spouse, and it made it even more special to have been able to actually take part in a sealing session the same day.

That night my sister Vanessa drove down from Provo to hang out at the reception with us and play card games afterward. It was really fun to get to hang out together with mine and Jared's side of the family. It doesn't happen all that often with all of my family in Alaska. : )

After the Wedding Jared's Dad had this genius idea to extend our trip by taking the scenic trip home through Price and Castle Dale Ut. Price is where Martin and Judy started their family. Martin worked in the Cole mines there and they had not been back for a visit in 15 or 20 years. It was so fun to spend Sunday driving around to all the old places they used to hang out. We went to the house Jared grew up in, the Cole mine Martin worked at, some relatives houses, and an amazing canyon that they used to go camping at. The cherry on top of all of this was that His Parents took our kids in their Suburban the whole time so Jared and I got to ride together in the Odyssey by ourselves for around 10 hours!! It was sooo nice. : ) That night we got a hotel in Provo and then Monday we drove through Salt Lake. We stopped at Temple Square and watched the Joseph Smith movie in the visitors center (it was a little too intense for Kate so I ended up waiting outside with her. : ) Then we had Lunch at the Spegetti Factory and drove home to Paul. The whole trip was so relaxing it felt like a long vacation. We really enjoyed it.