Best part of going to Utah this summer?

I think most moms out there can relate when I say its easy to get caught up in my kids lives and state of happiness and make it my own.  I mean if my kids are happy, it makes me happy. When they're cranky, it certainly doesn't improve my mood either.   So when we went to Utah this summer I knew I would be having fun because my kids would be having fun.

But the best part of the trip, for me, had absolutely nothing to do with my kids. (small amount of guilt felt but quickly abated!)

Don't get me wrong.  It was great to see my family!  My kids had such a blast with their cousins, especially in the pool!

And I got to teach my brothers and dad a thing or two about golf...like how to master the 3 putt!

We drove up to Little Cottonwood and enjoyed all the beauties of the canyon and the summer toys at Snowbird.

We took the kids to grandma's old neighborhood to see the 4th of July parade.  All fun events, all good times.

But no...as great as all those things were, NO, they do not qualify as the "best thing about going to Utah this summer"  So what, you may ask, could overshadow all those great things...

One word...Soccer! 

My sister-in-law is someone I've always placed in the awesome category.   But when she scored tickets to see the US Women's National Soccer Team take on Canada at Rio Tinto Stadium with me, it firmly cemented her awesome status for life & longer!  In all my years of playing and watching soccer I've never gotten to see the USWNT play in person.  I felt as giddy as a little girl getting a pony when I saw this...

and especially this...

photo credit: cbssports.com

An amazing save & amazing game by the girls in red white and blue!  Hands down my favorite part of the whole trip! Here's wishing them all the best as they go for the gold in London.