road trip 2014 part one — BYU tennis camp

Now, when I say “we” I actually mean “I” because the word “road trip” kind of gives Dave the heebie geebies (how do you spell that??) …until this year.  I think 🙂

I think car travel time is pretty much the best talking time you can get.  I love having my kids enclosed in a small space and having hours to talk.   They are head-over-heels in love with that kind of stuff as well.

In case you didn’t sense the sarcasm in that line, I will tell you we did have a few eye rolls, but I do think in their heart of hearts they really loved it too. 

Sooooo, we had a few kind of fun stops on our way back to the desert this year.

The first was tennis camp at BYU because Elle and her cousin were lucky enough to get that fun thing for their Christmas gifts this year.

 Now THAT is fun 🙂

When we dropped the girls off we were laughing at how Elle is really Julie (Dave’s sister)’s niece.  There’s just a little bit of a height difference there…

 They knew they were in for fun.

 We stopped for a sec. at the BYU diving facility…Julie’s old stomping grounds (she was on the BYU dive team).

 We would go watch her there back in the day.  Crazy how time flies and now she has six kids.

Here are the girls in their orientation…see them up in the back?

 I made them take pictures for me when we saw something pretty.

 They took pictures of themselves too.

 So fun to watch this girl play on the BYU courts and do so well.

She got an award (I think for sportsmanship).  That’s the BYU tennis coach high-fiving her there…

 Friends from back home:

 New friends from that week:

Their future tennis coach.  Ha!

Their dorm:

When you are at BYU and you actually attended that school it is mandatory that you go down memory lane a little bit.

 And explore the new stuff they have there.  The kids obviously thought that was a SUPER idea.

 But seriously, you HAVE to go to the art museum each time you go to BYU.

 They have the coolest stuff.

I made everyone choose their favorite piece of art work and tell us why it was their favorite.

 Isn’t that beautiful?

We stopped at our “first date” location:

 (more about that in part one of the love story back HERE.)

I think it’s so important for kids to know your “stories.”  I read a really cool article about that at the beginning of the summer.  I can’t remember where, but it inspired me.

We went and visited my cute niece and her husband who are still near the beginning of their own “love story.”  I talked about their wedding back HERE.