Can we cram any more into this trip? I don't think so! The last 2 days of a trip I think are the saddest for sure. You are cleaning and doing laundry and feeling sad that you don't get to see everyone for a full day again (or at all). I am sad that I didn't get to see everyone I wanted or visit people for as long as I wanted! Boo. 3 weeks seems so long and then all of a sudden it is time to go. I am sooooo grateful that my parents help with the financial part of the trip (gas money) so that we are able to come out here! I love that my kiddos get to know all their family out here. We either need to move here (so we can vacation other places) or we need all our family to live in one place. I see many a summers in Utah! SOOOOO I am going to try to not be sad about leaving and just be happy that we have had a GREAT summer vacation!
Things we did while here (pictures to come)
The Alpine Slide (Park City)
Classic Water Slide
The Hogle Zoo (on Kennecotts dime! Thanks Papa and Uncle Ryeley for working there)
Sleep overs at our best friends house!
Sleep over at Grandma Myrna's (with marshmellow roasting and movie screen outside)
A suprise visit from Daddy!!!!!
Birthday parties (with a suprise visit from Darth Vader)
Visits with amazing life changing friends
Another trip to Classic (with daddy this time)
Dinner at the Mayan (food poisoning but GREAT entertainment!)
Dinner at our FAVORITE Tepanyaki!!!!!!!
Tied 5, yes FIVE quilts and may do more before we leave!
Had Christmas in July/August! (Fun idea Nana!)
Ate WAY to many Dunford Chocolate donuts
Played in the RAIN!!! (for an hour and made a waterslide out of it with our snowsleds)
Went to a Movie or 2! (with the kids and on a date with B)
Vistited with family and played games! (Thanks granny)
Chinese buffets! (The kids think these are the best cause you pick your own food!)
Played in a creek and had a pic-nic!
Juliet found her Christmas present from Nana and opened it and called it her birthday present! (her birthday isn't until Dec. but she insisted it was that day so she could have her gift. That is what you get for not being so on the ball Nana!)
Cleaned my brothers house and fought with him the whole time to throw stuff away!!! (AHHHHH I will destroy the horder in him if it kills me!)
played video games WAY too long but it was fun all the same!
Celebrated a real BIRTHDAY for my Aunt Andi where we were able to play the frozen t shirt game! (a family favorite)
Walked Bingo, Nana's dog! It is one of their FAVORITE things to do and they would do it all day if they could. (and it's free)
Road bikes! (Max learned how to ride a bike!!!)
Nana and Papa work in the Nursery so Juliet got to go to nursery with them! How fun is that!?
Played poker with my brother and took his MONEY!!! (He still owes me come to think about it!)Played with my cousin and friend, Mal!
Inhearited all my dad's camping gear!
My brother made me quilting frames for my birthday (in 6 days) so I can tie as many quilts as I want at home! (thanks Rye for working in the hot sun!)
I know I am missing some things but as you can see, it will be hard to leave and go back to a non vacation sort of life because we really did "live it up" out here!
I am excited to go back to......
my husband and best friend!
my own bed
my work outs
my schedule (I love a good schedule)
friends I have missed
a budget (ha ha ha ha)
my own tv! (my mom had direct and I can't figure it out!)
cooking.
my own ward.
L.A. traffic (sorry I took some crack for minute!)
I made this little list to make me feel better and it sort of does because I am truely blessed but really I'm just crying now and want us all to live by each other so I can have all the fun all the time!
Nana with all her grandkids!
While we were waiting for our food, Juliet got a little restless and took over the camera. Some of her shots were not too bad!
some where.....well.....
we decided to do silly face pictures!
more silly!
more silly.....
and just some down right cute!
I love when I see the cousins playing and helping each other!
3 generations and one ugly pup!
I did have to fight Max for him though. Max LOVED holding him. I love this cute picture of Baby Cole!
We took the kiddos to Chick-fil-e for lunch and as we were eating we saw these monkeys pressed behind the glass.
Some of them may have been licking the glass.....
can you guess which ones? So gross. Where are their parents?
Work it girl!
Surprise! Not resting!
We packed lots of snacks so we could spend most of the day here!
Uncle Rye, chillin in sun! He looks gruff but he is really a big ol' teddy bear!
More snacks!
.....and more snacks!
Darby hopped off the chair to throw something away and it made Curtis tip! I loved this shot cause we are all laughing and Darby is running back to push the beach chair back down!
Dash is putting ice down Uncle Ryeley's pants.....shhhhhh! :)
Juliet is "tickling" Uncle Ryeley's head to help him relax. (I wonder if the ladies behind him care that they are in my blog now!?) :)
Max chose to go down the "fast" slide! The sleds have a brake system that you pull up when you want to slow down. This is the slide that goes down the WHOLE mountain with dips and curves.
Darby was up next.
She wanted to make sure she had ALL the instructions correctly. She was a little nervous because it was a little overcast and was sprinkling on our way up. One of the instructions were that if it started to rain then you needed to stop and get off your sled, take it off the slide and walk down the mountain.
Dash wasn't tall enough to ride alone (very upset about it too) so he rode with Uncle Ryeley. Uncle Rye was cool to let him have the controls though and he said that "little man" was a scary driver!
Curtis and Gracie went also. I didn't get their pictures because I had to go on the "slow" side with Juliet. It wasn't very slow and Juliet did NOT appreciate it. She kept saying/crying "dis is fun? did is fun?" I thought it was. :)
...and of course A LOT of time with this guy! Her favorite person in the world besides her daddy!
.......more time with this guy!
Playing dress up! "WOOOOO HOOOOO"!
Posing a pose.....ALWAYS!
Elder Grow and Elder Adams.
Elder Adams was....how do I put this...... kind of a...... smart Alec..... I may have wanted to call him something else there! I think that is why we loved him so much. He was really spiritual and really fun! On his farewell cake we wrote "we love you Elder Grow!" HAHHA HAHAHHAHHA! It was fun to see the look on his face! He quickly smooshed it out! We will miss you you Elder Adams!
Sometimes the beach gets a little chilly. You would think all sun and warmth but the wind and the waves = a sweat shirt over your "wim soup"!
It never phases Darby though. She LOVES to be outside and in the water!
Brandon's super cool beach kite!
This is the kids kite that he ended up with. At the end of the day we had a TON of fun sharing kites and building castles! Can't wait to go back!
