June was a fun and only slightly crazy month for our family. Take a look:
Autumn went on a two week trip across the country with 110 other recently graduated high school seniors, most of them from Lone Peak High school. They started here in Highland and spent the next two weeks visiting Church history sites from Martin's Cove to the Sacred Grove and everything in between. Here are a few pics of the Church history sites they visited:
Somewhere in Iowa
Winters Quarters temple
Carthage jail
Nauvoo temple
Kirtland
Susquehanna River
Sacred Grove - The leaders of the tour challenged everyone to read the Book of Mormon in the 2 weeks of the tour. Autumn completed the challenge and read her final chapter in the Sacred Grove on the day before she flew home.
They also visited loads of other Church history sites and Autumn loved them all. She was so surprised with how much she loved learning about Church history and how her testimony grew so much by sharing and recording her experiences.
The tour also stopped in several big cities along the way and Autumn and her friends were able to explore and play tourist for a day in each of the cities, which she also really loved:
Chicago
Cedar Point amusement park
While Autumn was out touring the country, Bryce and I helped Megan and Mitch pack up all of their stuff from their apartment in Logan as well as stuff from their homes in Utah county and along with Mitch's mom, helped them drive and move it all into their new house in Boise, Idaho! Their first home is in a cute neighborhood and has plenty of room for them to grow. We helped them clean and move their new furniture in:
Bryce and I drove back to Boise a couple of weeks later when Bryce had a mandatory Friday off of work to help Megan and Mitch with a few projects like building shelves in the master bathroom, fixing a couple of sprinklers, pruning trees and planting flowers and refinishing their kitchen table:
Megan and Mitch are eager learners and are having fun setting up their new home. We ended our second trip to Boise with a fun BBQ at my sister Kathi's home, which is only 30 minutes away from Megan and Mitch's new place. Megan's cousin Amanda (Kathi's daughter) and her family live close by as well and it was so fun to get together with them. Amanda is excited that one of her cousins lives close by! ;)
In between our two trips to Boise, Bryce and I took a few days and drove to the Four Corners area and explored Mesa Verde and other cliff dwellings in that area. We had so much fun exploring this area together and learned a lot about the ancient Puebla people. It's a beautiful and fascinating place!!
On the way home, we decided to drive out of our way to hike to House on Fire, which Bryce has wanted to visit for years now. It was pretty cool how the striations on the rock above the house make it look like it is on fire.
We did some wedding planning with Seth and Delaney as they look forward to their wedding on November 19. I went wedding dress shopping with Delaney (no spoiler pics here) and they had their engagement photos taken at Squaw Peak in Provo Canyon. Here are a few of their faves:
We had a short visit from the Bakes when they came to drop Ian off for school. We were in Boise for most of the time that they were staying at our house, but we did have a fun Father's Day/Jeff and Tami's birthday BBQ on the one evening we were all together. We ended the month with a visit from the Holloways where we did a bunch of hiking and having fun together:
We capped off the last weekend of the month with 2 family weddings on the same day. By the grace of God and with more than a little luck, we were able to make it to both sealings that were only 2 hours apart - Alex and Sabrina in the Mt. Timp temple at 1:00 and then Brandon and Lauren in the Ogden temple at 3:00. Still can't believe we made them both. We enjoyed so much being with our families that evening at the wedding receptions:
Brandon and Lauren coming out of the Ogden temple
Alex and Sabrina coming out of their wedding reception
That's it for June!!
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