Utah was lots of fun with lots of family time. Since Rachel is a junior, we did an official BYU tour as the deadline for adulting looms closer for her. She got some free swag, but we had to walk the whole tour since two groups had to be combined with one guide so we didn't fit in a golf cart. Still worth it.
The highlight of our visits to Utah is always cousin time. It's always particularly fun to see the littlest cousins, and of course the little cousins latch on to the fun older cousins to the point that they can hardly escape for "me time."
Megan and Sara got along really well. Even if Sara did hit Megan in the face multiple times. :)
Games and food are two staples of our visits.
We all went out to dinner at Red Robin, and took over the entire bar area. It took a LONG time for the food to come out, but in the end it was tasty and a fun time was had by all. Good thing the fries were bottomless, because we had our fair share, and then some!
After Red Robin, mall shenanigans ensued.
The Bean Museum, aka the Dead Animal Museum was a hit as always.
Megan has a stuffed animal she brought to Utah with us named Gunther. When we saw this van on a walk in the neighborhood she just had to bring Gunther to meet his van.
Rachel took advantage of having Mark around to have him teach her more of Jan's waltz, the song Grandpa wrote for Grandma.
The older cousins got in some game time a few times without the younger kids around (Megan was probably entertaining them.)
Wes and Brayden were "helpful" on the puzzle we were working on. Everyone would sit down for a while to work on it, then go off to some other activity, while others took a turn. We had to keep a close eye on the little ones so we didn't lose any pieces.
Sunday walk down to the river!
All the Campbell-in-law ladies. I'm grateful I married into a good family.
Laughing and old family photos and videos of Mark's clan playing in the mud.
Andrew's clan took off school one day to go with us to the aquarium in Sandy. There were tons of cool things to see there.
Megan might as well be a penguin.
Rope bridge in the jungle.
Look! It's Ryan! Oh.... maybe that's a real sloth. ;)
Everyone loved touching the anemones, starfish and sea sponges, and petting the stingrays.
The shark tunnel is probably my favorite part of the aquarium. So cool to walk through and see the animals pretty close up.
After we finished inside, the kids got their wiggles out, running around playing sand monster and just climbing on the big playground outside before heading back to Grandma's house.
Outside play time!
We snagged a picture with most of the siblings, but Lisa had already left for home, so we missed her!
Someone crazy chose this puzzle that I'm pretty sure we completed a few years ago. It was tough, but everyone pitched in and we actually got it done!
Friday we were able to drive down to Fairview to visit Grandpa Campbell's grave and see the new headstone. It was pretty with the new snow, but thankfully the roads were clear and it wasn't as windy as it had been last year at Grandpa's funeral.
Afterwards we stopped for some ice cream since we were already frozen. 😃 Some opted for french fries instead.
Megan sure managed to get some quality time with Sara.
Of course no one wanted to leave to go back to Arizona. It was a fun visit and we loved our time with everyone.
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