Finally a little Family Vacation!

Beautiful Utah, yes Utah is beautiful this time of the year! But even better is spending time with Best Friends that you never get to see! We started off with a very early and exciting Airplane ride with the Fam! (Thanks for the sky miles Dad!) Any one who knows me knows that I am a paranoid freak especially on an PLANE! But somehow staying calm for the sake of not scaring my kids helped a lot, it also helped that it just felt right that we were all together. We stayed with our best friends from College; Ster and Char, it was soo nice to hang out with them, our kids act like long lost siblings when they're together, and it's fun, and a little sad to see them growing up so fast. Charlee and Colton were our first children and and they were together every day the first few years of thier lives, and then we moved back to sunny Arizona, and then Colorado... We don't get together as families very often, but when we do it's CRAZY FUN! really it's crazy! and always lot's of laughing. Our first stop was Temple Square, and the Conference Center, It was fun to watch the kids see it for the first time it's gorgeous there, and so much history. Charlee did some research on the Temple and shared it at o The F.M.H. before we went, which made it more interesting. Then we went to Gate Way, and then to see Ster's new Triumph Youth Facility, he does very important and Amazing work with those kids! He also took us to his Pheasant farm, where he demonstrated how he can make the pheasants fall asleep, pretty cool. Then we went to the "Haunted Corn Maze" where Char and I tried to hide in the creepy maze and scare people, we mostly succeeded at freaking each other out! The whole time we were there, Porter just wanted to play in the snow, so one morning, after Sterling fed us yet another Hardy breakfast, we went on a snow hunt up to Snow Basin, where Colton snow boards all winter. We found some, and it was really cool to see how excited the kids were! We also went to "Frightmares"at Lagoon, (nauseating).

We ate a lot of fabulous food and laughed even more, it was totally RAD! We love you guys! and miss you already! Pics are commin...