Vacation Pictures

Now that we've been home for nearly a month, I've finally found the time to get all the pictures into a post. I already wrote about what we did on our trip, so I won't have a lot of captions in here. 

August 15th: 

Scott & Tanner see each other for the first time in over two years:

(It's also Scott's 23rd birthday)

Seth wearing Tanner's horse head

First hugs for the grandparents in over 2 years:

August 16th. Our visit to the temple quarry trail:

Do these stones remind you of the Salt Lake Temple?:

Happy Seth at Grandma & Grandpa's Ward Swimming Party:

August 17th:

Baby Harvey

Seth is fascinated with Baby Harvey!

August 19th (in Arizona):

We visited the Mesa City Cemetery and saw many relatives and ancestors' graves

We drove by Grandma & Grandpa Johnson's former house. It looks different, but good!:

Visit to the Mesa Temple grounds:

Next, a visit to the Tempe Mission Home. I loved these beautiful flowers outside:

Tanner with President & Sister Christensen:

Then a nice visit with Uncle Joe & Aunt Amy. Sorry some of the pictures are blurry! I think Seth took some of them:

Then dinner and another nice visit with Uncle Bruce's family and some of Aunt Conny's family:

August 20th

Church & visits in Casa Grande. I loved this cactus in front of one of the houses we visited:

August 21st

First, watching the eclipse at the Gilbert Temple grounds:

Eclipse shadows!:

Then lunch with some of Tanner's missionary buddies:

August 22nd

First, a visit to the Phoenix Temple grounds. The pictures don't do it justice! It was so beautiful!

Then, the Grand Canyon, starting with wildlife in the parking lot!:

Bat (squirrel) man overlooking Gotham (Grand) Canyon:

More parking lot wildlife:

The whole area was very beautiful (this is next to the visitor center:

We walked by the flagpole when the ranger was preparing to take down the flag, so we stopped. When the ranger heard that Seth is a Cub Scout, he let Seth help him:

Sunset over the Grand Canyon:

August 23rd

The view out the window at our hotel in Page:

And the view from the parking lot:

A stop at Glen Canyon Dam on our way out of Page:

August 25th

Back in Utah, brothers hanging out:

August 27th

Music & the Spoken Word:

August 28th

Making s'mores with cousins:

August 29th

Thanksgiving Point Ashton Gardens:

The Museum of Natural Curiosity:

August 30th

Temple Square visit:

We met up with an Arizona friend of Tanner's while at Temple Square:

Dawn also met us there and she spent the afternoon with us. Frank's knee was hurting so we got him a wheelchair:

August 31st

Amy and I met our friend Paula for lunch:

Scott came over that evening for to take some family pictures and we said our goodbyes:

Brothers being silly:

And that's it!! I didn't get pictures of everything that we did, but that's okay because this post is super long already! :)