SLC or BUST!

After I finished the school year, Jarad and I packed up and headed to Salt Lake for a week to visit friends and family.


Look! Even Sadie is excited for a road-trip!


The trip was nice and Sadie was a champ in the car.

Right when we got into Salt Lake, we went to visit our friends Jenn & Ben. Sadle, I forgot a picture! Love you anyway Jenn!!


We got to go visit our Maura and meet the sweet little Crew-man!!


We did lots of playing with this little cutie! Kate loved Sadie even after she got a little excited and knocked her over.


One evening, Chris & Tarina & Kate and Jar & I went down to the Gateway to do a little shopping and enjoy the evening.

Jarad was growing a quite a bit of scruff but then decided to shave and to try something new...


Isn't he a stud?! (YIKES!)

One morning, we went to one of our favorite breakfast places (The Original Pancake House) with our pals Brian, Michelle and Fiona.


We also got to hang out with them most of the day and see their new place and catch up. Thanks for spending the day with us!

That evening, we got dinner with Jarad's sister, who was passing through on her drive to Colorado, in Bountiful at CAFE RIO! SO YUMMY! (And the best news, we just found out that they opened one in Denver!!)


Of course, we had to go see Grandma & Grandpa Tangren. They are so cute and we love them so much! We also got to see Jar's Aunt Amy and her kids.

The event that spurred our trip to begin with, was the blessing of little Crew. He was long awaited and is such a cute baby!


The proud parents and the little man!


At the blessing, we got to see some friends from our old ward too. Alec & Tiffany are gonna have a little girl of their own to bless soon!

We loved spending Memorial day with Chris, T & Kate! We hung out, went shopping and ending up building a fire-pit in their backyard!


Kate snuggled up to Jar while her parents picked out bricks!


And lucky for us, a summer tradition was open and we got a BOB'S!!!


Seriously!! Could she be any cuter??!!

Fire-pit done, and my girls (those who still live in SLC) came over for a BBQ and camp-fire.


It was a great dinner and a great fire!


We got to meet little baby Theo while we were there as well! Chrissy & Thayne and their adorable baby Theo!


Our little family enjoying the fire.


Tarina, Kate (she really like the s'mores!) and Chris (Thanks for hosting the BBQ and for letting us stay with you!)


I love my girls and I am so glad that we got to spend time with some of them. (Miss all my non-SLC girls too!)

Before we left the great Salt Lake, we went to visit Jarad's Dad's grave in Heber. It is hard to believe it has been two years since he passed.

We just took some flowers and a few pictures.

Sadly, we did have to leave. But we had a great time visiting and will surely return!


Sadie made her own little perch in the back seat for the drive home.

Eventually, she got tired of the backseat and moved...

onto my shoulders! She is so crazy, but seriously did so well the whole trip!