We Went To Utah - First Leg

We had a couple of gifts for the boys that we didn't want to take with us on our trip to Utah.  The swords would be too violent and the possibility of breaking some thing was high. The guitars were too large and fragile, we knew if we took them they wouldn't make it back unscathed. So we let the boys open up two presents the morning we started our trip.

Eli and Josh waiting to open presents

Swords!

Very excited!

Rocking Out 

Josh later asked if we could through away their toy guitar since now they have real ones.  

Eli wants to be a rock star. On our trip he told me he was thinking of changing his name when he grew up. I asked him what he wanted for his new name, he said LuLi, but that he wasn't sure because he was trying to find a good rock star name.  We let him know that he can keep his name and just have a rock star name for his band.
He seemed alright with that and thought maybe he would name his band Rock, or Star. 

Morgan's brother Guy returned from his mission to Brazil.  We found out that he was arriving in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday the 21st. It was too close to miss so we decided to leave on our trip to Utah early and just go via Cedar Rapids so we could see Guy arrive.
After we visited at the airport we went to HuHot so Guy could enjoy some Asian food.

Noelle meeting her Uncle Guy

Morgan says that Guy is a thinner version of himself. Do you see it?

Horray for Uncle Guy!

Then began the long 20+ hour drive to Utah.  If we didn't have kids and have to stop all of the time I'm sure it would be faster. We decided to make the drive in three days so that we could go at a safe pace and not exhaust ourselves too much. The kids were really good for the drive. It may have helped that they got to watch a lot of movies. We bought head phone for the boys so Morgan and I could listen to our own books and music.

Josh is pretending to sleep. 

My handsome, Hubby. He did a great job doing the bulk of the driving. for our trip.