Blanding

My brother, Taylor, and his wife had their first baby this summer! She is sooo... cute and we love her sooo.... much! The only problem is they live 5 hours away in Blanding. We hate that they are so far away from us and that we don't get to see them more often. We thought we were going to have to wait for her baby blessing to get to see her but my brother got a job promotion and they were coming to Salt Lake every week for a few weeks not long after she was born! So we were able to see her when she was just a couple of weeks old instead of almost 2 months! Yeah! But silly me I didn't get any pictures, when they came to visit or when we went to Blanding for the baby blessing! But take my word, she is adorable!

They blessed her Sunday August the 28th. We left about 5am Saturday morning to put as much time between the drives as we could. So we had some time on Saturday to kill. My mom and dad know one of the Dosi couples at the Bluff Fort Visitor Center so they thought it might be kind of fun to go down there for a little bit. Our motel had a pool so the kids had a hard time understanding why we were going to visit Bluff when we could just go to the pool. Once we got down there and they started looking around we had a hard time getting them to leave! We heard over and over again, "We have to come back here!"

First they dressed the girls up in pioneer garb. Then we watched a short movie about the pioneers who settled Bluff. For those of you who don't know it was settled by the group that came through the Hole in the Rock. The story is amazing! For more about the story click here.
They gave the boys a few things to fit the time period and then we got to go out side and take pictures!

I always pictured covered wagons much bigger then this.

Can you imagine what it would have been like for me to move my whole family across the country in this thing?!

This wagon is one of the wagons to actually come through the Hole in the Rock!
Can you believe it?!

My kids in front of the wagon that came through.

The girls were more then willing to keep posing for pictures! And I was more then willing to keep snapping them! I was amazed at this place and want to go back when we can spend more time.

They have handcarts that you can pull around the grounds if you would like. We didn't take the time while we were there, but it was fun to watch the kids think about how we would make that work as a family too!

Connor ready to take off on his own trek across the country!


Porter is a little less ready!
(I will take another post to explain the broken hand!)

The girls are more then ready!
They thought this was all very exciting!

Our stake is doing a trek next year for Youth Conference.
Jaxon is getting a head start!

We had a nice afternoon in Bluff and almost all we talked about on our way back to Blanding was going back!

We had a nice little trip to Blanding and we are so glad we were able to go and share that wonderful experience with The Harrison's!