Andrea's Wedding

Ginny and I were able to go to Utah for a few days for Andrea's wedding. It was so fun to be there! Here are some pictures from the trip:

Andrea and Kevin coming out of the temple! (Photo courtesy of Maggie)

Brad and Andrea showing off their moves before the reception.

Mike and Chadley, Father/daughter dance.

"May I have this dance?"

Ginny loved her flower girl dress and bouquet!

Susan and Gracie

Jen and Daniel looking so nice!

Brad and Kate

Loralee and Gracie

Melanie's got some moves, too!

Cousins!

Sisters are the best. :)

Beautiful!

Maggie is so tall these days and made a beautiful bridesmaid!

Andrea and some of the flower girls.

Daniel wanted in on the pictures. He is so handsome!

Beautiful girls!

And the beautiful bride.

Her dress is so pretty!

This was the morning of the wedding, when the flowers arrived!

Dad looks pretty good with flowers. : )

The bridal bouquet.

Andrea's gorgeous hair.

And Leslie, the best hairstylist and cousin all in one!

Spring 2018 Catch Up

Hiking in Forest Park

We went to Lillian's ballet performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Lillian is Ginny's friend from school.)

Ezra used his Christmas and chore money to buy himself a new bike!

Isaac gets to have Ezra's old bike. All of our kids have learned to ride a bike now!

Ginny is picking the Mad Hatter's nose. Gross.

Late snow storm fun.

Isaac's kindergarten dance program.

Visiting the Conference Center in Salt Lake City with Aunt Andrea.

We went to Utah for Spring Break. We love our cousins!

Matching is so fun at this age. :)

Norway 2018

In February, we went to Norway and spent a couple of days in Oslo, and a couple of days at Venastul. Venastul is a company-owned retreat that is owned by Norges Bank (the company Erik works for). We had a great time there! We got to go cross-country skiing, the kids loved the playroom, and we spent our evenings playing board games and just enjoying spending time as a family. We loved it so much, we are already planning to go back next year! :)

Here are some pictures from our trip:

Here we are enjoying Oslo's little Olympic Village. They were broadcasting events, and there were hay bales around little fires where you could sit and watch.

Isaac in downtown Oslo

We went to McDonald's for lunch because we are cool like that.

Enjoying all the Oslo snow.

Behind Isaac is the royal palace in Oslo.

And one of Ginny and the royal palace.

There is a big hill in front of the palace and the kids had a great time sledding down it in their snow pants!

Here we are in a subway station, waiting for a train to take us up the mountain. We went sledding there and it was a blast! I'm going to have to see if Erik has pictures to add here because I didn't take any of the kids sledding.

This is the only photo I took while we were sledding, and it's of Ginny and Isaac waiting for Ezra and Daddy to catch up at the bottom.

On the bus in Oslo.

Also bus in Oslo.

These are some of the huge icicles we saw on the drive up to Venastul.

In the playroom at Venastul!

Ezra, cross-country skiing.

Erik and one of the boys, cross-country skiing.

Isaac LOVED the ping-pong room.

Sledding outside Venastul. The pictures are blurry because I took them from inside our room. I didn't want to go back out in the cold!

The morning view from our room.

Having dinner in the dining room.

A partial view of our room. 

This and the next picture were taken on top of a hill while we were out skiing. There were some beautiful views!

Erik and Ezra at the bottom of the hill.

Sunset.

We really loved the scenery.

On the airplane coming home.

They really loved their wiki stiks. :)