Vacation to the Holy Land!

We went, we saw, we left! The Wagar Five had an enjoyable vacation in Utah in mid August. I have never been so we did Temple Square. It was beautiful. I am not usually a sight seeing kind of person. I don't like just looking at things, but this was different. Everything was so beautiful. I have honestly never seen such elaborate flower beds. We happend to be there on 8/8/08 so we saw no less than 20 wedding parties. At first, we couldn't understand why so many people were getting married on a Friday, but then again, we were in Utah. We spent a day and a half at Temple Square, went to the water park one day (but only got 3 hours of fun in because of lightening causing it to close early), went to the aquarium, visited the BYU campus, and my favorite day, spent all day shopping in Park City. Fun was had by all and we made it safely back home...just in time for me to start back to work. Below are our family fun fotos!

Blake and Tayson pretending to swim against the painted scene. It took us a while to get Tayson to get close to the shark tank. We seriously considered putting one of Kamri's diapers on him because we thought he might pee his pants...but he got over it. Blake is touching a sting ray - he claims he wasn't purposely flexing. We learned all about how Steve Erwin died. Apparently, he didn't die from the sting ray stinger itself but from internal bleeding when he pulled the stinger out...shouldn't he have known not to do that??

None of us had been to the conference center so we did the tour - I highly recommend it.

Isn't Kamri's swimsuit adorable. I actually put her in the water and I think she liked it! In case you are someone who hasn't been swimming with Tayson this summer, he is wearing his Spiderman swim vest/suit.

Funniest thing about this picture, Bryce couldn't see the reflection of the temple in the "reflection pool" while we were there. He only saw it once he was looking back at our pictures. Saddest thing about this picture, Blake is almost as tall as me :( Most irritating thing about this picture, Bryce ruining what could be a very cute family photo by wearing a stupid hat. There's a time and a place buddy, and it ain't temple square!

Family Reunion

We just got back from Bryce's family reunion on his mom's side. It was in Winthrop, Washingon which is about 4 1/2 hours north of here. We were annoyed at first at how long it took to get there but once we arrived we saw it was a great campsite. It was a nice 85 degrees (I actually prefer temperatures in the 100s but with Kamri I am ok with it being a little cooler). Several family members brought up camper trailers but a lot, including us, stayed in cute little miniature cabins. We had a lot of fun seeing family members we haven't seen since the last reunion (in 2004). We are back for a day and then are taking off for Utah for a quick vacation until I start back to work next Monday.

The trip up took longer than anticipated. We had to stop for lunch, stop for baby feedings twice, and once because Kamri had a poop blow out that required us to stop the car and change her. While we were stopped, apparently Blake and Tayson both decided it was also a potty break and huddled around a bush to relieve themselves. Bryce got this picture right as they were finishing up. Wouldn't it be nice to be a boy?

Above: Bryce and Sean playing a little ladder golf.
Below: The boys playing a little touch/gentle tackle football.

And of course, Bryce teaching Tayson how to be a man being using a very sharp knife to wittle a very small stick.

Tayson and Kamri got to meet cousins they had never met before. Here is Kamri with Riley Nelson. And Tayson is showing Jaron Larson how to throw a football while balancing on a wooden beam. Tayson felt pretty cool this weekend because he is usually the smallest and was very willing to impart all of his worldly knowledge onto Jaron.

You might wonder were Blake is. There were teenage cousins his age at the reunion to hang with. We barely saw him the whole time.

Now we are off to Utah (almost).