Trip to Utah

On Friday the kids only had half a day of school so as soon as they came home we packed up the car and set off on our trip to Utah. We'd been excited about this for a while and I was even more looking forward to having a break from house work etc...

The weather was LOVELY when we got down there, I've been taking FULL advantage of being able to wear my flip flops. Our first stop was build a bear. I don't normally let the kids get bears very much but we hadn't been for a while and I had $25 in coupons so I thought we'd spoil them. It took Sydney FOREVER to pick what she wanted. Before we left she said she wanted a dog but the one she wanted was $22 so I said if she got that she wouldn't be able to get any clothes so after about 30 minutes she decided to get a cute pink monkey. They really love going there, it's such a nice store but you could spend tons of money in there. Before leaving the mall we got the girls a new pair of flip flops each and then we went to Ikea. I LOVE Ikea, every time I go there it reminds me of home. We rushed around there pretty fast but found a few nice storage things for the kids. We then went to Jackie's house (my English friend that lives here) and ate our Wendy's we picked up on the way there.

The next days was lots of fun too. The weather was still nice but a little windy. Our first stop was this craft store called the wood connection. There was tons of nice things there but we settled for some wooden letters that spell Madison and 2 wooden guns. We then made our way to Steve's cousins luncheon. That was the main reason we took the trip to Utah. We got changed and went over to the Luncheon with all Steve's family. His Mom, brother, Uncle Val and Aunt Karen and Grandparents were all there too from Idaho. It's always so nice to see all Steve's family, they're all so nice. Maddie wasn't feeling too good during lunch so she didn't eat anything. I stole a picture off Steve's cousin's blog from the luncheon. You wouldn't think that Maddie was sick from how she looks.

After that we went to Cabelo's! We'd always heard how amazing it was so we thought we would check it out. It was pretty cool, lots of cool stuffed animals all over the place and a cool aquarium with HUGE fish in. Some of them had really ugly mouths, that freaked out Spencer a little bit, I think he thought they could get him. After that we drove to Tai Pan, a store I love but they don't have it in Idaho. Only Syd and I went inside because Spencer had fallen asleep. I didn't end up buying anything but Syd really liked it in there because it had lots of beautiful things. (That reminds me of a funny story about Syd but I'll share that later). After that we went to Chucky Cheese's, the kids LOVE it there. We didn't get any food there but the kids played and played. We did get to see Chucky Cheese though and the girls got to hug him. Spencer started to feel worse at that point and threw up, HOW LOVELY!? Maddie has been sick for a while, she got better and then got worse and Spencer got it too. We were going to go back down to the wedding reception but decided we should probably go back to Jackie's with our sick kids!

The next morning we got ready and thought we would spend some time with Jackie but in the end she had to go to work. She didn't realise she had to work so I felt bad. She's always so nice to let us stay at her house and the kids love her. Just after she left we left to go to Temple Square. It was a bit colder that day but still not too bad. We went all around Temple Square which the kids loved. We also went to the museum but the kids weren't feeling too good so we had lunch which Spencer didn't eat and then we went to the zoo. When we got there the weather was getting bad and it was pretty cold. We can normally get into the zoo for free with our zoo pass but I guess they changed it this year so we only get a discount so that made the decision easy, we left! The kids were a little sad but I was kind of glad because it was sooo cold. We quickly drove up to the this is the place monument and looked there for a minute. We didn't realise that they had so many cool things there so we're planning on going back there when the weather is nicer.

All in all it was a nice trip even though the kids threw up a few times. It's always nice to go down to Utah but always nice to get home too. When we pulled into the driveway Spencer started to cry. He said he wanted to go back to Utah because he didn't get to give Chucky Cheese a hug. It took him a while to finally get out the car, it was pretty funny. Now it's back to the REAL world, laundry, getting ready for Super Saturday and the kids being sick STILL!!! Maddie came home from school today (THANKS Kristy, I had no car so Kristy went to get her for me) and both her and Spencer have thrown up! We're going to the doctors tonight so hopefully they can tell us what to do, poor Maddie has been sick for about 2 1/2 weeks. Life is crazy but I guess it always will be, FUN TIMES!!!