ISSI and Logan

This past week Brynn was able to go to Salt Lake for the the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute, or ISSI. It was a great week full of Twinkles and catching up with old friends. She arrived on Thursday (the Vances were kind enough to let her stay with them), started classes on Friday, and basically sat and listened to beginner violinists for a week and a half.

She wasn't able to take very many videos, but this teacher was having a lot of fun watching the kids try to do everything he did.

A highlight of the trip was going to visit Caitlin in Logan on Saturday night and Sunday.  We got there in time to catch the tail end of the Summerfest  and see some awesome photography and art as people were taking things down.

Cait put O in an adorable hiking backpack.

Even though we got there at the end, there were still a lot of booths open!

Bonsai trees.  This place is awesome.

On the walk back to Channer's, Owen wanted to snuggle Cait, and this was the only way, given the circumstances.

On Sunday, we met Mike to caravan back to Logan with him.  And we ended up in the literal middle of nowhere.

On Thursday, Seth drove up to SLC, so we decided to hike up Lisa Falls.

Brynn wore the worst possible shoes for scrambling up wet granite, so we didn't go up very far.

Seth was much braver, though, and ventured up further than Brynn dared go.

On our drive back to Phoenix, we had a little bit of time to kill, so we decided to stop off at Bryce Canyon for a second.  We can't wait to come back when we actually have time to go hike! It's absolutely breathtaking!

We had a fantastic time in Utah this past week, and we can't wait to go back!