Four Generations

I am very lucky to have the "four generations" photo below of my grandma Jensen, my mom, Isabelle, and me. Since my grandpa died several years ago, my grandma has lived with my parents. Up until early this year when she had her first stroke, she has been in really good health considering her age of 93. When we visited Salt Lake in March of this year, we took a similar photo and based on how she was doing at that time, I was certain that would be the last photo and the last time we would see her. But, she keeps hanging in there somehow and so we were able to take another priceless photo with her.

Pioneer Day

There is a state holiday on July 24th in Utah called "Pioneer Day" commemorating the arrival of Brigham Young and other pioneers in the Salt Lake valley in 1847. After living in Phoenix for over four years without this holiday, it was nice celebrating it with my family. In the morning, we went to a cute little parade in my sister's neighborhood which Allie, Max, and Sam were a part of. Then, my dad took us out to his favorite breakfast spot, "Jim's" for real homestyle breakfast. Later, some of us went swimming and then we had a little get-together at my parent's house that evening and ate delicious take-out from one of my favorite restaurants, Italian Village. After dark, I sat out on the deck and watched some pretty firework shows going on throughout the valley.

My Old High Chair

While staying with my parents, Isabelle had the privilege of using the high chair I used when I was a baby (I couldn't believe my mom actually still had it, especially after the big move!). Anyway, after getting used to the blinding retro-yellow color and the old-school functionality, it ended up working great and Izzie loved it!

Popsicles

Grandpa Barry introduced Izzie to Popsicles during our stay (is it any wonder why she loves him?). Once he gave her one little taste, she followed him around wanting more! Finally, we let her go crazy in the high chair with her very own; and, as you can see, she loved it.

Cousins & Friends

We were happy to spend time with family & friends during our trip to Salt Lake. Below are some more photos of Izzie playing with some of her cousins and good friends.

Left: Cousins Alyssa & Olivia; Right: Friends Max & Cade Swensen

Left: Cousin Riley; Right: Friends Sam & Jack Ward

Cousin Allie

Fun at Grandma & Grandpa's

After staying at my sister Heidi's for the first few nights of our trip, we spent the rest of the time at my parent's new house in South Jordan. The new house is really nice and has awesome views of the mountains, valley, and Jordan River LDS Temple. They also have a cute little community pool that we took Izzie to a couple of times.

Izzie loves her grandma Shar & grandpa Barry. We'd ask her "where's grandma" or "where's grandpa" and she'd look around and give them big smiles when she found them. She had a great time playing with all of their toys, especially the big teddy bear that's as big as she is.

Chavez

On Friday, we spent the afternoon with Danny's mom and Andy. Danny's dog, Chavez, still lives with his mom. The poor little dog is thirteen years old, is deaf, and suffers from asthma, but Isabelle still loved playing with him. She hasn't ever really been around dogs, but she loved climbing on him, tugging on his coat, and trying to stick her fingers in his mouth (yuck!); lucky for her, I think he is just too old to mind much!