Lucy, Claire, and I flew to Utah on August 8th, 2015 to pend a week with my parents and then a week with Ryan's parents. Ryan had a business trip for the first few days, so he met up with us for the last couple of days with my family and then the time with Ryan's as well. Having traveled a lot with my kids, I tried to be super prepared for our long travel day alone. I surprised the girls with kindles that I bought for more than half off on some amazon deal day and loaded a bunch of shows on them. I also had new coloring books, crayons, markers, and stickers, lot's of snacks, and a few new, inexpensive toys for them to open if they were good along the way. They were about as good as I could have expected two toddlers to be and we even got a compliment or two about how well-behaved they were. So, success!!
These girls love their grammy and papa and put them right to work the next morning painting nails, playing with bubbles and chalk outside, and playing on the swing set. Claire wasn't happy about this at all, as you can see. ;)
We took a trip to Utah's Hogle Zoo. The girls probably loved the statues of animals and the rides that grammy and papa spoiled them with even more than seeing the actual animals! That's how it is at our zoo, too. So fun!
I always love getting together with these great friends of mine each time I go to Utah! We went out to eat and had a great time talking and catching up!
Lucky Claire got an Oreo and as you can see, she enjoyed it!
Getting papa to push you on the swing in between swimming breaks: 3 year old heaven!
We also love being able to see Great-Grandma Smith too! The girls loved playing with her walker and pushing/riding it around too.
We had a little tradition growing up of grabbing a pizza for dinner and taking it to a parking lot by the airport to eat while watching the airplanes fly in low right over us. So, we tried doing that out here in Utah. We found a great place to set up in the parking lot of a golf course right by the Salt Lake City Airport. It was right in between both runways. The only downside was that it was right at a very dull time of the evening, apparently, because we only saw about 3 or 4 planes total. But another time/day it would have been awesome! We still had a ton of fun just being outside, seeing the pretty mountains and taking a little walk in the area.
One morning we swung by Beyond Glaze for some of their unique, yummy donuts. We ate them in the car on the way up to Thanksgiving Point, where we went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity.
These little bridges were a little scary to me, being so high up and swinging all around, but my mom was brave enough to go all the way up to the very tippy top airplane with Lucy!
We had planned a little trip down to BYU when Ryan arrived, which randomly happened to be the same morning as the BYU football scrimmage. We went to that for a little while and once we couldn't take the heat anymore we ventured onto campus. The girls enjoyed the candy counter, of course, we strolled around the bookstore and the Wilkinson center a bit too. We ended the trip with a swing by J Dawgs for some good hot dogs while the girls slept in the car. It was a good day!
I love when little moments like this are captured. Seeing as I am usually the one thinking about taking the pictures, it doesn't happen often!
I can't remember the details of how this little family water fight got started, but it happened. It totally threw Claire for a loop though to see both mom and dad kind of acting crazy at the same time, and made her cry. But she got over it.
Another fun thing we did in Utah was go to a cool pool by my parents house. It had a fun kids area, and a huge swimming pool with slides and diving boards, etc. We happened to go when it was pretty windy out and the water was slightly freezing, so we didn't get any pictures because of that. But the girls still had a lot of fun and loved watching grammy do cannon balls off the diving board. More outside time, nail painting, and probably some good treats were the perfect way to end a relaxing but fun trip to grammy and papas.
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