Pete & Sharmela Hafen: St. George, Ut

The summer is over! Phew! I thought the end would never come. (soon enough at least) But, that doesn't mean that Pete is done working. He still has 2 months left of full time extended program. Which in my terms, means, working overtime. But we get to do it at home. Which makes it nice for me and Harlow. We get to see our family and friends and sleep in our own beds and do everything familiar.

On our 18 hour drive home (more like 20 hrs after all of our stops) we stopped in St. George, Ut. St. George is about 10 hours into our drive home. We stopped to stay a few days so we could visit Pete's family. We don't get to see them enough and we wanted Harlow to get to spend some quality time with Grandpa Brent and Grammy Rhonda. When we arrived that night in Utah, Harlow was spent. She was more than done with the 10 hour drive. As soon as we pulled her out of the car and she caught sight of Grandpa she freaked and was crying into my leg. But after we gave her about 10 minutes to warm up to them she was good to go. The next few days were smooth sailing of hanging out with Grandpa and Grammy. She loved all of the attention they gave her. Funny how the love of a grandparent is received differently than the love of a parent.

Grandpa Brent has some of his own horses and we have been telling Harlow about them. When we shared this with Grandpa we learned that he had taken his horses to the ranch. Oops. Sadly we didn't have time to take a trip out to the ranch this trip to Utah. But Grandpa doesn't disappoint, he took us all to the Cox Family Farm instead. Harlow didn't know the difference and she had a ton of fun checking out all of the animals. She particularly excited because we have been practicing her animal names and sounds.