Trip to Utah

A couple weekends ago we made the drive down to Utah for a memorial. A family friend of mine died in a snowboarding accident about a month ago and left behind a wife and 3 young kids. The whole thing is just so, so sad and it breaks my heart for their family. The Orr family was the only other big family in my church branch growing up and they had 10 kids, while our family had 9. Aaron was the 3rd oldest, and though he was 6 years older than I was, I still remember a lot of things about him.

Saturday morning we met with Steve's old childhood friend, Jeff Prause, in Provo. We went out to breakfast and caught up with him. The last time we saw him was at our wedding 3 years ago, so it was nice to see him.

We attended the memorial Saturday afternoon in Cedar Hills. They had a funeral for him back in Wisconsin the week before and since so many family members live in Utah now they decided they would do a memorial there. The memorial was really uplifting and focused on the positive things in Aaron's life. Aaron was such a great guy and will be missed by many. After the memorial we had a chance to visit with family during the luncheon, and even though it wasn't on the best circumstances, it was great to see old friends.

Sami is one of the Orr's cousins and we were good friends growing up too, lots of Girls camp/stake activity memories with this girl! It was a bad hair day for me in this picture, as I forgot all of my hair product back in Oregon, Sami, Gemma, and Logan look cute though :) Oh and Logan did have pants on, but he ended up pulling Steve's bowl of soup off the table all over him and daddy (nice work son) ;)

Logan and Gemma. They were so cute together. 

 

 

After the memorial and luncheon we went back to our friends place we were staying at in Pleasant Grove. We stayed with the Barney's (Drew, Taylor, Brooklyn). Steve and Drew were roommates in college at BYU-I. Drew and Taylor were one of our really good married friends in Rexburg and it stinks that we live so far away from them now. We knew we wanted to stay with them when we came down for this trip and I'm so glad it worked out. They have a 5 month old daughter, Brooklyn, and she is such a little cutie!

Logan was sure hittin' on the girls this trip!

Taylor made us the best lasagna for dinner and after dinner we drove down to Draper to walk through IKEA. I love IKEA and hadn't been there in a few years so I told Steve we had to go. It was a lot of fun and I probably would have walked out with the whole store if I had the money.

Taylor and I and our babies (Logan and Brooklyn)

After IKEA we went to the Orr's house in Cedar Hills. It was really nice to hang out with them a little more since I haven't seen many of them in so long. We only stayed an hour or so, but Logan was way overtired and we had a long day already.

Logan and Gemma in their pj's!

Sunday morning we went to church with the Barney's and then made the drive back to Ontario! It was a good weekend! I think I convinced Steve that we need to move to Utah....now we just need to find a job :)

The Barney's and us after church. We sure do miss seeing them!