Texas Thomas': Vacation in Utah

We had a GREAT time on our family vacation in Utah and we have LOTS to blog about. I’ll divide this up into several shorter blogs and spread this out over a few days instead of trying to write one massive post! You will see we spent A LOT of time with the family, which is exactly what we wanted to do.

For those not familiar with the Thomas Family, here’s the breakdown.

Matt and Tiffany have 4 kids. Kate (12) Abe (9) Charlie (7) and Lucy (5)

Then us – Paul and Jen with Aaron (7) Brian (4) Christian (1)

Lis
Andrew and Michelle
Sara

We got to Grammy and Grandpa’s house on Fathers Day, just in time for dinner! Everyone came over that evening to hang out and to try to plan what we wanted to do in the next few weeks. The kids loved being together again and it was awesome how well they played together even after having not seen each other in a year and a half.

Monday most of us went to This is the Place Monument – Heritage Park. I had never been there before at all, and they have developed a wonderful living history attraction with storied accounts of the settlement of the West, told by knowledgeable interpreters in a setting of original and replica historic homes. We had so much fun! We learned about stamping leather, tin-smithing, panning for gold, a one room school house and lots of other fun things. The highlights of the excursion, by far, were the little train we rode around a track (and shouted in the tunnel) and the petting zoo. They had several farm animals roaming around a large pen, and we all went in to play. Christian especially, was so cute as he chased the piglets around! They squealed – He squealed. Fun was had by all.