The New House

In June, we purchased a lot to build a home.  We are being our own general contractors to save some money, but that means that things move slowly. This month, we finally broke ground. We now have a hole in the ground and are ready for the forms and foundation to be poured.

Ronnie and my dad went out and spray painted the house on the lot so the excavation could begin. It looked TINY on that three acre lot.

 Panoramic of the view. We sure do love that wide open space and Wyoming skies!

City view.

The big machines.

Inside the hole.

Some cute kids I know.

The finished hole (which looks significantly bigger than the spray painted house). :)

Brynlee: 10 months

Brynlee is crawling everywhere and is fearless around the house. She takes off for the kids rooms whenever she can to see what treasures they happened to leave on the floor. She takes 2 naps a day and if we stay home, her morning nap is consistently longer than her afternoon one. Night times are rough. Mama is quite honestly counting down the time when she can wean and sleep train.  Brynlee is so tiny (not even 15 pounds at her 9 month appointment) that the doc said to feed her anytime she wakes up. Luckily, she is super easy going and cute during the day, and goes right back to sleep after she's eaten at night. She is happy almost all of the time and will randomly hold her hands out to people at church (mainly men) to have them hold her.  It's pretty adorable.

The Wyo Family Reunion - it's a long one

The Wyo family met in Utah for a short reunion. The majority of us pulled into town on Thursday and bright an early on Friday morning we left for the Hogle Zoo.

It was a rainy (off and on) day which kept the animals cool and active and the crowds way, way down.  Perfect day in my book.  The one negative was that I did not bring jackets. As in, did not bring jackets to the state of Utah. Mom fail. In my defense, the weather report the day we left was such that jackets would not have been necessary.

First up were the lions.

We even got to touch fur, mane, etc.

Some of the kids by a weird elephant.

Kendree girl loves her elephants.  We had to get a picture.

We took time to ride the carousel. Kendree has the best expressions.

Devynee and Dad rode on the bench. They had more opportunities for pictures.

 Traditional picture by the apes.

The Hogle Zoo had dinosaur stuff all over. I tried to get Devynee to take a picture by T-Rex.  She needed a minute before she was ready to turn her back.

About 30 seconds later, Easton came out of the reptile house and we had the EXACT same thing happen. Not sure he wants to take his back.

Then acted cool and pretended to be terrified. :)

The traditional lion drinking fountain.

Aunt Sarah is everyone's favorite.

The whole gang.

 Our last item of business - ride the train!

After the zoo, we headed to Uncle Gordon's bowling alley for some fun.

Todd.

Brylen.

Devynee.

Kendree.

Alayna.

 Easton.

After bowling, we went to Temple Square and had a tour of the Conference Building. The views from the roof were my favorite.

Touch the temple.

The whole family in front of the Salt Lake Temple. What an awesome building.

I know someday we will treasure these pictures of the entire family.

After a long day on Friday, Ronnie and I got up and did a temple session at the Payson Temple (beautiful!!!) but did not take a picture.  We then headed to Grand Dad and Grandma-Great's house to help Grandma, Grandpa and Sarah watch the other grandkids while the other adults went to a session at Mt. Timp (closer for those mama's of newborns).

Grandpa and McCoy were matching! It needed to be documented.

Naps and sleep were a little off (as always while traveling). Brynlee thought that daddy's arms were perfect for a little shut-eye.

Our little fam headed to BYU campus that afternoon.  We stopped to "gear up" at the BYU Bookstore. Easton bought this hat.  He love, love, loves it!

A few photo ops.

We had a big dinner on Saturday night with all of the extended Utah family on my mom's side (no pictures, I'm a failure). Then Sunday, we had family pictures, church, and we got on the road.

Ronnie did get this cute picture of Devynee eating her ice cream at Little America on the way home.

We had a great time! Always so fun to see everyone and let the cousins play together. Can't wait for next time!