Utah trip continued

Wednesday we visited BYU. It was a quick but nice trip.  It is always fun to walk around campus and show the kids where we went to school. We met up with all of the Shurtz cousins at the Bean Museum and the cougar eat.  We then went with all of them to a trampoline place.  The boys had fun jumping around! 

On Thursday Michael and I got to join all of the Shurtz's and go the temple. Later on in the afternoon we met up again at a church to hear Michael's uncle Gerry talk about his life and his travels.  It was neat to hear about the Lord's hand in his life and all the places he has been able to go to.  Below are some pictures of the kids during the time Uncle Gerry was speaking. We realized if we waited to clean until everyone was done we would be there all night. So I rallied all of the cousins together to help get the clean up started. They did a great job!

I love being in Utah for the 24th of July! We all loved watching the parade with all of our cousins and later that night we met up with them again for fireworks!

During the day we went back home to my home there in Salt Lake where we helped with the annual garage cleaning.  During the cleaning Alden and Calvin had a great time making and shooting rockets with Andrew's rocket launcher.  Michael and I have decided that we need to get one of those, it is great entertainment!

Benson enjoying his favorite of all foods- Popsicle. We love the Ruby Red brand and/or the outshine popsicles. We've been out lately at our house and so Benson was super excited when Grandma brought home a big box of many flavors!