Utah

Since we invested in our new van we decided to brave a drive cross country with the boys.  To save everyone's sanity we split the drive into 2 days stopping in Colorado to stay at a hotel.    Peter was in the middle of potty training so we armed him with some pull-ups, packed a whole cooler and box of food and snacks, loaded the dvd player, fired up the gps and set off!  And I have to say that they did surprisingly well as long as we stopped every 4 hours for a quick run around a rest stop or to eat lunch.  The incentive of a hotel with a pool was also a good motivator.  Here are our happy travelers.

 We thankfully made it to Richfield, UT without any problems and were greeted by Alan's grandma, aunts, uncles and cousins....and some nice 90+ degree weather.  The boys had a fun time exploring every inch of grandma clara's house, torturing the neighbor cat and playing with some boy cousins.  I of course spent so much time running around making sure that they weren't destroying things that I didn't get many pictures.  But we did get some with grandma, although they are not the best since getting those two to hold still at the same time is near to impossible-but I will take what I can get!

My little love bug just can't pass up an opportunity for smooches and landed a big one on grandma clara before we left.  We stopped in at the local dairy and picked up our box of punch bags (if you are a jensen you will know what that is) and headed north to visit my cousin Julie for lunch.  It was fun to see her new house and visit with her family!  We wish they were closer!  After lunch we headed to the salt lake area to visit my aunt Norma and Bob  and cousins.  It was a great visit,  but a little crazy since we had to be on constant guard to protect her valuable that were all right within toddler reach. 

Then the two day drive back.  Driving back is always the worst...it seems to take much longer than it should be we made it home safe and sound and we were all very happy to be out of the car!