So Sunday evening (technically it's day 3 still) we headed over to our friends house, the Paynes. They'd moved from Mesa AZ up to Clearfield UT, in early May. Their oldest boy, Nicholas, was Savannah's really good friend. They missed us terribly : ) and begged us to come visit them!! What were we to do? Go and visit them of course! So we went over for dinner and visit. We ended up staying way too late, and stayed the night!
Here's Savannah, bundled up with her buds, Nicholas and Alex. They are watching Dora, or Diego, on the Wii! Nicholas was shy when we first got there and it took him a good 30 minutes, I think, before he would come out from Steve's (his dad) leg, or Silvia's leg and play! Alex, however, had no problem playing with Savannah from the get-go!!Day 4
Steve had to go to work (he had a short, last-minute, family trip to take to TX later in the week) so he couldn't take Monday off to spend with us. So instead, as we headed out to go to Aunt Launa's house in Taylorsville UT, we followed Silvia to Steve's work and got to have lunch with him. At his office there's a room with a massage chair. After I sat in it for a while, then Savannah wanted to sit in it, then Nicholas, so we got a picture of them sitting in the chair together!!
But of course, Alex didn't want to be left behind in all the fuss, so he came over and joined in on some more pics!!!
We got to Aunt Launa's house that afternoon, let Savannah finish her nap, and then we had dinner plans with some more of our friends, the Householders. They had moved up to UT from AZ a few years ago and they have a daughter that's almost a year older than Savannah. And I didn't think to get any pictures of them! Bummer! Jason and Dean have been great friends for many many years, and they are computer geeks, so when they get together, they start talking computers and other geeky stuff!! I had to pull Jason away to go, so that we could put Savannah to sleep!Day 5 (Tuesday)
After I graduated high school, I went to college at Chandler-Gilber CC, way back when it was just 2 1/2 buildings!!! The 2 main buildings, and then one small building North of that! It was only a few years old, I think. Anyway, I made a few good friends from there, and one of them has lived in WA and UT for a long time, and I hadn't seen her in YEARS!!! Thanks to FB, we re-connected and made plans to meet up while we were in UT.
Karen Pellet was able to meet us at a Park in Murray, which is just down the road from where Jason's dad lived, so it wasn't far at all for us. She has 2 beautiful children and Becka, her oldest is about the same age as Savannah, I think she's a couple months younger? So Savannah got to play in the park and meet Becka. Karen and I got caught up on the latest things happening in our lives--it was GREAT! So nice to visit with friends from long ago!!
After the park, I had another friend that we visited with. In my previous post, I mentioned one of my friends that moved to Las Vegas recently, Amy Holly. Well, we met up with Tiffany Hunt, who is Amy's sister, and she's such joy to have in your life. Boisterous and full of life! Anyway, so we met for lunch and had a chance to catch up. She has 2 great kids! Again, forgot to take pictures! I don't know why I can't seem to remember to take pictures!!!That night, for dinner, my cousin and his wife invited us over for dinner, when they found out we were in Taylorsville!! Brice and Joann make us a nice dinner and we visited. That's where Savannah had her first Otter Pop and she LOVED them! She kept getting into their freezer (fridge with freezer at bottom) and getting one out. One time, she snuck one out, and I found her still in the kitchen, trying to hide, and when I got closer to her, she threw the O.P. up onto the counter!!!!
It was so nice to get the opportunity to meet up with these great people and I know there are more that live up in the SLC area, that we didn't get to see--maybe next time we can catch them all!
Day 6 (Wed)
So for our last day in SLC, we picked up Clark (Jason's dad) and went to tour the Conference Center. We hadn't seen it yet! It is a beautiful building!
From here, we said good-bye to Clark, and headed on out toward Grand Junction, CO. That's where another one of Jason's aunts live.I'm so glad we were able to do this road trip! It was wonderful to see everyone and to travel to all these different places (even though we didn't really do much sightseeing). We saved a lot of money by being able to stay with family and friends, and also with all those dinner invites.
