While Daddy's Away...

Glenn went to work in Pennsylvania for two weeks so Tate and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity for a quick trip to Utah to visit family. Who wants to stay home alone? Not us! I'm so so glad that we took off while Glenn was away so we didn't sit here lonely and bored without him. We had a great trip and spent tons of time with some of our favorite people.

I may have to break it into a couple of posts because I took a ridiculous amount of pictures.

First Grandpa spent some time trying to brainwash Tate by showing him all of his dead animals. Up close. We have a running joke that Dad is going to get Glenn and Tate to be hunters like the rest of the boys in my family. I'm not for this, which makes the teasing all the more fun for my Dad.

This was their latest kill. They got back from a hunt the day after we flew in and Tate couldn't get enough of this dead deer head...much to his mother's dismay. He kept going to the garage door and asking to, "See a deer pease".

And some of the other spoils of the hunting garage...

Dad had to get a picture of Tate with "Bevo's Horns" for Glenn.

Next up was a trip to Cabellas. It's a huge hunting/fishing store and it has tons of dead animals and a huge fish tank. Kenzie kept telling Tate that he needed to see Cabellas, so then Tate started saying it too and asking us to take him to Cabellas. So we eventually all caved.
Tate and Mya playing some sort of shooting arcade. Oh dear. Notice the tongue stuck out in concentration.One afternoon Kenzie, Tate, and I headed over to Thanksgiving point to check out their petting zoo. Tate had a great time petting and feeding all the animals.

He was stoked at first that we got to feed the animals. A few of the bigger animals made him a little nervous. Seeing their huge heads coming at his little hand kinda freaked him out after a while and then he just wanted to watch them and left the feeding to Auntie Kenzie.

Tate got to go on his first pony rides! He never busted out a full grin, and seemed to be concentrating very hard on what was happening. He kept saying, "I ride Bullseye" (Woody's horse from Toy Story).

But we knew he loved it when he started sobbing when it was time to get off.

This might be my favorite picture of the day. Auntie Kenzie is just so sweet to Tate and he adores her. It was fun to have a little outing just the three of us.