We just couldn't get enough of UT.
A friend, Shari, invited Savannah and I to ride with her to UT. She didn't want to drive by herself with her two little girls, so we came along!! We left on Tuesday the 17th of August.
Savannah is so funny! We hadn't even gotten to Flagstaff (or Prescott for that matter) and she's already whimpering, "back Mommy, Daddy, & nana's house!!" She did that for about 10-15 minutes, and we decided to go ahead and make use of the DVD Player! After that, she was fine for pretty much the rest of the trip.
And, it was her first trip going as a potty-trained tot!! (though I had diapers for accidents and night times) I was so nervous!! But she did AWESOME!!! No accidents in the car(seat)!! Yay!
My MIL picked us up in Mt Timpanogas & took us to Aunt Launa's house for the night and the next morning, she drove us to our friends', the Paynes up in Clearfield. That's where we stayed for the week.
Mostly, we just let the kids play around the house and outside a bit. I got to meet Silvia's new baby girl, Leslie!! She was born the day we got home from our trip to UT back in June!! Go figure! But I got to see her in August. She was so tiny and adorable!! I could tell Nicholas and Alex adored her. Savannah LOVED waking up to find her friends were right there!!
Friday and Saturday were eventful days. On Friday, we rode the train to Downtown SLC to go to the Children Museum. And on Saturday we went to the fair.
The Children Museum was HUGE!! Nicholas and Savannah hardly saw each other while in there. There were just SO MANY things to see and play with! I had to practically drag Savannah away from the 1st floor, to go up to the 2nd floor, because she had so much fun playing in the playhouse, full of dolls, strollers, kitchen, food, and all that stuff.
We had to rush to catch the train home, because Steve was gonna catch it at the next stop. Well, we caught the train and all, but found out that he got a flat tire on his bike!! So we got off at his stop and waited for him to get it fixed and meet up at the station. Savannah decided to use that time to have a short nap-only about 30 -40 min or so. Then Steve made it to the station, and we got on to go home.
Savannah wanted to go swimming, so we go and she decides she doesn't want me to hold her anymore and pushes me away!! (she's in a swimmy tube) I couldn't believe it! She's growing up so fast and is more independent. Some days I like it, some days I don't!
Then we went out to eat at Red Robin's that night. Both Nicholas and Savannah fell asleep while there! They were SSOOOO EXHAUSTED!!! That was fine with us, cuz when we got back to the apartment, Silvia and I got to play some Halo!!
Saturday, we got things packed up and headed out. We went to the County Fair and the kids loved being around all those animals and they LOVED going on the little ride, the race cars going around and around!!!
Saturday night we had dinner with some friends. They're from Mesa AZ, but moved to UT a couple years ago. We didn't get to see them in June when we went up to UT, so we made plans this time around. They have 3 boys, 2 of them are older, I think 7 and 10. Their youngest though was a little over a year. He seemed to like Savannah, because when we got done with dinner, we were walking out to the car and Logan (the little boy) wanted to hold her hand and started crying when Savannah had to leave!! It was so cute!!
Here are some pictures:
Train ride
The Children Museum
Every now and then, Savannah will tell me that she wants to go to Nicholas's house! Awww... and then I have to tell her, that we can't go there for a little while and try to distract her!I think the next time I ride with someone, I might do better at getting our own transportation once we arrive. Either borrow a car or rent one. I felt bad about having to get rides from all these people-most especially on Saturday. Remember, I had all of our "stuff": bags, her toys, food, and a car cooler. So when we met my friends at Pirate Pizza, we transported our "stuff" to their car, went inside, played and ate. When Shari (the friend we rode down with) got done with her family reunion, then she came and picked us up from the Pizza place. So we transported our "stuff" to her van from my friend's car. I just felt bad at having to ask so much of all these friends.
To end the trip, I ended up feeling stuffy and having a sore throat. I could hardly talk through the dinner. Needless to say, I was not much company for Shari, on the drive home. I tried to help out with the girls in the back as best I could.
We had fun otherwise, enjoyed the somewhat cooler weather (apparently, it's not usually that warm in UT-even in the summer!! Go figure that we were there when that was happening!!), going swimming, Silvia and I visiting, watching chick flicks, laughing and all that fun stuff! I'm glad we were able to go!
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