Spontaneous Utah

One day I decided that if I was going to make it out to Utah this summer I had better leave in 3 days. So, the kids and I went. (why did Jeff stay home since he doesn't have a job?) If you remember that I have an overprotective dad... well he flew to the Boise airport where I picked him up after 8 hours and he drove the last 6 hours of the trip. We were getting closer to Brigham City and dad jokingly suggested we could stop at Maddox the new favorite restaurant of the family. (they also saw President Monson there, so it must be a favorite of his too.) Getting hungry, I told Dad that was a great idea and "why not?" So, we called members of the family and they drove the 2 hours to meet us at Maddox. Yum! My mouth is watering thinking about it again. It started off our week in Utah on the FUN foot.

The kids got invited to go to Laura Halliday's birthday party... a pirate/princess theme. No problem dressing up with Grandma around. Kaden loved being fixed up pirate style for the party.

Here are the girls with Laura and Caitlyn Holliday... their Utah best friends.
Tubbies with Spencer!

My 2 cousins, Heather and Rachel had babies within 3 weeks of each other... Camryn and McKenna. They were so darn cute.

The girls had to hold them the whole entire time we were together. Ever since we've been with them my girls have been begging to have another baby. Har!

Going to see The Fantastiks at the outdoor Sundance Theater was on my "funtimes" list. I invited everyone to join me and it turned out to be a fun evening.

Grandma and Grandpa were the babysitters but Maryn and Ady were the lucky ones to come with us. They liked the show too.

Kaden thinks that Uncle Marc is the greatest ever. They have always been best buddies doing everything together...mowing the lawn together was no exception.

It had been a long time since I went to the "This is the Place" monument which is now called "Pioneer Village." We made that a special outing with Grandma and Grandpa and the Shumans. It was quite the village with original cabins of pioneers, train rides, crafts, animal, horse riding, Native American stuff an much more that we didn't even touch. It was a HOT day.

Since we were "in the area" I had it on my list to go the Great Salt Lake and do some floating. We drove out to Saltair and were soon grossed out with the stench of the place. As we walked on the sand, which was so thick and pasty that it broke my flip flops, we were super grossed out with all the little nat flies all along the beach. There were swarms and gajillions of them flying around and there were a bajillion dead carcasses on the water line. It was weird and super disgusting. It was hard to hang around the water with all of that nastiness, but Marc was determined to be a floater since were were there. We saw 2 older gentlemen climb over some rocks and get in the water avoiding the flies... so Marc followed along. Soon, he was floating in the Great Salt Lake. Emmy joined him and felt the floating feeling. It was fun. Part of me wanted to do it too but I couldn't get past the flies and the smell. I thought I was tough, but I guess not.

After Marc washed everyone in the hose, he saw the 2 gentlemen walk past him heading for their car. Marc walked over and said, "the hose is over there to wash off' just in case they hadn't seen it. Come to find out, those 2 guys float every day after work in that water because it's good for the skin. Apparently you're not supposed to wash off or you'll rinse all the healing properties off. Hmmmm, that might be true, but do you want to stink too???

The trip was filled with tons of swimming too. Our new favorite pool is the Spanish Fork community pool. It has a big slide that lets little kids go down it too. They all had a blast going down it. Spencer couldn't get enough of the slide. We also went to the Pioneer Park pool in Provo and the Scera Pool. Lots of water and slides and fun!!! Thanks for a fun trip again everyone. We're always guaranteed a good time when we go there and it's always hard to go home and leave my family behind.