Another UT trip

Yes, it's true, we went up to UT again!!!!

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!

June Road Trip

DAYS 1, 2, & 3

So Jason and I have been married for 5 years now!! Wow! It hardly seems that long, yet it feels like we've been together forever!!! (though having dated for almost 4 yrs beforehand, might attribute to that feeling!)

June 18, 2005 was when we were married.

Friday, June 18, 2010 was when we embarked on a 10 day road trip!! What a way to celebrate our anniversary huh?

We purposely went by way of Las Vegas to UT. We had a couple of friends along the way, and a family member to visit too! Though I didn't get any pics while we were there---don't know why I didn't think to get pictures of them! Guess was just too busy visiting and enjoying the short stay (and making sure Vannah was doing okay and not getting into trouble).

DAY ONE
1st stop, was Las Vegas NV. When I got returned from my mission, I was anxious to move out and get back into the Mesa valley, for social reasons. (Buckeye AZ is NOT much of a place for LDS socializing-at least not back in 1998!) One of my cousins, Melanie Huggins, was living in Mesa and knew of a couple of gals looking for a roommate. Amy Lou Price (now Holly), and Ginee Butler (now Scarborough) were my 1st roommates after mission life. Amy and I got along fabulously-though she is such a great person, I doubt there's anybody that thinks ill of her anyway!! Love ya Amy!! So she had married, moved away to Virginia-until just 1 week before our trip.......she moved to Las Vegas!!!!!!! So that was stop # 1, to see my dear friend, Amy! We had a good, but quick visit, as we had lots of place to go before the night! Amy has 5 daughters, so there were plenty of things for Savannah to see and plenty of playmates to spend time with. After about 4 or 5 minutes, she warmed up to the girls and went and played with them. We had to pull her away to leave, and she wasn't very happy!

2nd stop was Bunkerville (near Mesquite) NV. While on my mission to Hawaii (I know-you're all jealous that I got to go to Hawaii for 18 months!) I had many companions, and my first one-my trainer, became one of my greatest friends!! We got along so well. She is who we visited in Bunkerville NV. She had 3 kids and was pregnant with the 4th (who was born in July), so Savannah-again-had playmates during our visit! It's great to visit these dear friends of mine!

3rd stop--mind you this was all on day 1-Friday!!
We stayed the night at Jason's aunt Bonnie's house in Washington UT (just outside of St. George)

DAY TWO
Since we got in so late that night, we visited in the morning and didn't leave for SLC until around noon!! We planned to go to Murray UT, where Jason's dad lives, so that we could visit him on Sat. evening and go to church with him in the morning. Alas, that didn't happen! We discovered that Jason's mom was in Alpine, and wanted to see Savannah too! So we made an impromptu stop in Alpine. There I met one of Jason's aunts. Found out, she grew up in Hawaii!!! So we got along fabulously!! We ended up staying for dinner and the night too!

Savannah had no desire to continue with her potty-training during this time...she was too busy having fun with everything and everybody!! I figured this would be the case, thus I didn't push to have her completely potty-trained before we left! But I had hoped that she would do a little bit-not so! Oh well......

Here's Savannah with her Grandma Wendy.

While in Alpine, I discovered that my favorite LDS author (Anita Stansfield) lives just down the road from Aunt Chris!!!! And Chris knew her well, since they were in the same ward and everything......so she called and asked if it was okay for us to come for a little visit. So we took a walk down the road to visit her, get a picture taken with her, and I bought a book and she signed it for me!! How cool is that! She is so nice, though I would've expected that anyway.

Here I am, with Anita Stansfield!

DAY THREE
So we had to leave Sunday morning early enough to get to Murray, and pick up Jason's dad for church. We thought it'd be nice to go to church, on Father's Day with Jason's dad. We were saying goodbye's to Wendy, and she gave Savannah a juice box.....which didn't work out well, because I discovered (after we got Jason's dad and were walking to the church building) that she squeezed out the juice onto her clothes!!! We were already late, so I didn't do anything about it!
Savannah was so tired out, that she fell asleep at the end of the Sacrament meeting, and slept through the rest of church (another 2 hrs). Since I'm in the Primary, I don't get to sit in Relief Society, and since Savannah was sleeping, Jason was sitting with her, visiting with his dad--I got to go to Relief Society! How nice!

Here is Savannah with her Daddy, and Grandpa

We stayed and visited with him for an hour after church, and then we went on to Jason's Aunt Launa's house. That's where we were gonna be staying while in UT for a few days.
We also got to see Jason's Grandma Mallene for a few minutes on Sunday too.

There are so many people that we know in UT, we could live there and still be surrounded by family and friends....