New Year's Day, much too early for having stayed up the night before, we climbed in the car and set off on a trip to Utah to attend my youngest sister (Heidi)'s wedding.
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| Hannah drove for five hours of the trip to Utah. |
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| Peter |
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| Josh got car sick on the way there. That wasn't fun for any of us in the car. |
In Utah, we stayed at my parent's home in Utah. It was crowded with several of my siblings and their families, but a lot of fun. I was still playing with my new camera...
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| Heidi |
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| Kristy's son Jared |
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| Kristy and Jared |
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| John |
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| Peter |
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| John again |
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| Jessica and Peter |
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| Heidi and her fiancé, Ammon |
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Heidi and Ammon after opening our wedding gift
(and yes, they were acting surprised just for the sake of the photo...) |
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| Tayson (aka Jarom) |
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| Amber's son Seth |
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| My dad |
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| Some of the cousins crowded around an iPad. |
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| Jared again. |
On Monday (the 4th), we dropped Hannah off at BYU with her cousin Jessica and she got a tour of the University, as well as a taste of what some of the classes are like. Hannah is hoping to be able to attend BYU in a year and a half or so when she graduates from high school.
Heidi and Ammon were married in the Bountiful temple on January 5th. It was a beautiful ceremony and Heidi looked radiant. After the ceremony, lots of pictures were taken. I took a few pictures of the temple before the wedding, but didn't pull out the camera again until most of the wedding photos had been taken. (There were plenty of more experienced photographers there.)
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| Steven in front of the Bountiful Temple |
Then we asked my sister Amber if she would take a few pictures of our family. She agreed, even though she wasn't familiar with our camera.
As soon as we were done taking pictures, we climbed in the car and headed for home. There was a wedding luncheon and a reception that evening, but we had an 8 hour drive ahead of us, plus seminary in the morning, so we set off on the I-80 across Wyoming.
We had only been traveling a couple hours (we hadn't reached Lyman yet) when there was an accident. Ahead of us, an SUV was towing another car was in the left lane, and a semi was in the right lane, and we're not sure exactly what happened (possibly the SUV tried to change lanes and clipped the front of the semi) but suddenly the semi was fishtailing and the SUV was rolling off the right side of the road, breaking most of the car windows and losing the car they were towing. Steven pulled over to see if he could help.
We stayed there on the side of the road for about an hour while Steven did what he could to help. The guy driving the semi also pulled over. He didn't seem to be injured at all, but he was on his phone reporting the accident. There was a bunch of people in the SUV: a woman, a boy about John's age, and a few men. One of the men in the car injured his back and couldn't exit the back of the car. Steven loaned them blankets, paper towels, and water while we waited for emergency personnel to show up. A truck from the fire department, a sheriff car or two and an ambulance appeared after a while, and the man in the SUV was laid on a board and carried to the ambulance. We stayed until things looked like they were under control, and then we continued on our journey.
We arrived home shortly after 10:00 that night. As much as we had enjoyed seeing family and Heidi's wedding, we were thankful to be safely home again.
I love the pictures, both on facebook from others and on your blog. Yikes about the accident! Glad you are home safe. I see Kristy and her kids every now and then passing in the halls at church.
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