Utah!

It seems as though all of our vacations are trips to visit the family back in Utah. Not sure how many of these we'll be able to afford once we need to buy 4 plane tickets, but for now it's a fun trip every year or so. And even though Dawnell was back there for a month, we still didn't end up with any pictures from the Utah Shakespearean Festival, or our one night in Vegas without the kids, or of our visit to Carson, Beckett's best friend in utero.

This is Cedar Breaks National Monument. Here is Dawnell and Ciaran. They are cute in front of gorgeous and scary scenery.

Beckett at "Point Supreme." What a stud.

Gorgeous

Beckett went to the zoo. Here he is sitting on top of a vanquished Cougar, because that is what all Utes do these days, lord over the top of their vanquished Cougar foes. Good times.

Beckett also enjoyed fishing. Don't worry, we'll work on curing him of this defect.

Here's Beckster in front of something at the zoo.

While we were in Utah we had family photos with all of Dawnell's family. Dawnell has 5 older sisters who combined have a total of 19 kids (our two are numbers 17 and 19 on the list). We had professional photographs taken since all of the sisters were in town and all of the cousins (except for the cousin who lives out of state and is already married) were also there. We decided to dress with our part of the larger family in a theme. Here are me and my two boys in our Jazz jerseys. Dawnell, who took this picture, did not wear a Jazz jersey, but her green shirt matched mine nicely. And now all of our jerseys are retro jerseys since the Jazz introduced new uniforms yesterday. We're hipster cool like that.

We tried to have happy family love time by going to visit Temple Square. After three minutes of Beckett screaming bloody murder we changed plans and visited the closer Jordan River Temple. We took some family pictures there, but trust me when I say none of them turned out that great.

Here's the best of the bunch, just Beckett.