Our El Paso Trip

I'm finally posting about this trip we took last week because this last week has been so exhausting.

We left last Wednesday (July 1st) and drove 14 1/2 hours down to El Paso. Last Sunday (July 5th), it took us only 13 1/2 hours to get home. I'm not sure why it took us longer to get down there but all that driving really took a toll on us both. The boys did really good in the car. We, of course, had our moments of unpleasantness but we got through it.

My family all met down there for Kelsey's baptism. We really did enjoy the baptism and all the extra fun things we got to do.

On the 3rd of July, Anne's stake held a primary activity. All the kids were suppose to bring their bikes to decorate them for the parade that they would hold at the end of the activity.

I was helping Ryan tape stars on his bike.

He did a really good job with sticking those stars on! I was proud of him.

Ryan's bike all decked out!

Here is Trent and Troy trying to fix Kirsten's bike because it had a flat tire.

Towards the end of the activity, we were all so hot! It was pretty humid down there because it was monsoon season... from what Anne told me. You can tell that Ryan had it...


But, it was a good thing that they had watermelon. Ben was in heaven!

Here are some pictures from the baptism...

Here's Lindsey's youngest... Larkin

And here is Lindsey's middle child... Rainey

Here is the woman of the hour... Miss Kelsey

On the 4th, we went to a little parade there in El Paso. It wasn't anything great and spectacular like here in Provo, but I did get to see Miss El Paso!! That was my highlight of the parade.

At the end of the day, we gathered again at Anne's stake center to watch some fireworks. Here are pictures of me and the boys...

It was still really hot and humid at that hour. That's why I look so horrible! We really did have a lot of fun! We hope that we can get together with my family again soon!