Utah Day 4 & 5

May 30th & 31st: Magna, Utah

After going non-stop, we finally took a couple days to just sit around and relax. 

Even though we always stay with Angie and Rossii when we visit, since they live so close to Tina & Scott, we don't get much time to hang out with them. We were able to spend one night just hanging out with Angie and Rossii. They made us a delicious Carne Asada for dinner. Angie and I even left the boys with the kids while we went to a movie, What to Expect When Expecting. But don't feel bad for the boys, they got to go golfing! 

I love that we can visit my family and also visit our amazing friends when we go to Utah. I just wish they would move here. 

hacking into Aunt Nicky's facebook

nap time

Utah Day 3

May 29th: Salt Lake City, Utah

We spent the day at the Discovery Gateway Museum. It was a very fun place and the kids (and adults) had a blast!!! These pictures describe it better than I can...

Grandpa Thomas teaching David how to build

Kimmie & Emma

picking a flower for Grandma

Utah Day 2

May 28th: Magna, Utah (Memorial Day)

To celebrate Memorial Day we thought it would be fun to hike Ensign Peak with my family & the Knowles family. And fun it was:) It was a little difficult at times, mostly because I was carrying sweet baby Joshua, but the view was worth it. The kids did great and walked the whole way. It was a fun activity to do together. 

Joshua loving "hiking"

some of the family coming up

We made it!

Joshua relaxing in the grass after the hike

Next we headed to the Pam & Richard's house for a BBQ.

 That night the Seth, David, Scott, Spencer, Tom, Emmanuel and Dylan all went to Rocky Mountain Raceway to watch a race. Unfortunately  I don't have any pictures of that, but while they were gone the girls (and Joshua) hung out and the kids played in the bath. 

Kimmie washing Morgan's hair. 

Utah Day 1

May 27th: Cedar City to Magna, Utah

Today I slept in a little bit. Seth got up with Joshua to take a shower, but our ghetto hotel shower kept alternating between freezing and scolding every time anyone in the hotel used water, so Seth decided to take a bath instead while we slept. We felt like we had been rushing the entire trip, so this day we took our time. Once we were finally on the road we headed to meet my family in Magna, Utah. 

Along the way we decided to stop in Orem and visit where Seth and I lived the first year we were married. It brought back so many good memories. I loved our first place, it was a big 2 bedroom townhouse. We had lots of great memories there. 

Our first place

After spending some time driving around Provo/Orem, we headed up to Angie & Rossii's to drop off our stuff and then to my sister, Tina's. We spent the rest of the night just hanging out and relaxing with family.

Finally got to meet sweet baby Savannah (they call her V)

Uncle Rossii & David

California Trip Day 6

May 26th: San Diego to Cedar City, Utah.

The Colby's were nice enough to give us some guest passes to the San Diego Zoo, so we met them there and spent the morning hanging out with them at the zoo. This zoo is HUGE! It was so much fun, but we didn't have enough time to see all it had to offer. Guess we'll just have to go back again:)

While we were at the zoo, I got a voice-mail from my amazing friend Felicia (who lives in DC) saying they were at the airport heading to Utah for the long weekend. I was so excited to hear that we would both be in Utah at the same time! 

After the zoo, we headed to Old Town San Diego. Aunty Devi & Uncle Nathan met us there and took us out for some authentic Mexican food.

While there we visited the Mormon Battalion site. They had lots of fun stuff for the kids and it was an interesting historical site. Next time I would love to take the guided tour, but we didn't have enough time this trip.

Aunty Devi & Kimmie walking around Old Town San Diego

We couldn't leave Cali without a picture in front of a palm tree!

Mormon Battalion site

 Once we said goodbye to our wonderful friends, it was back on the road. This time, we were leaving California and heading to Utah. Before we left Cali, we made one last stop at the Redlands Temple.

Now we had to say goodbye to California, and head to Utah. We left the Redlands Temple and began the long drive to visit my family.

 At one point we stopped at a Wal Mart in Rancho Cucamonga to get some snacks. I was extremely disappointed when I opened my honey roasted peanuts only to discover someone had already opened them in the store and helped themselves. I was even more disappointed when I realized that someone in the store had also helped themselves to my chewy chocolate chip cookies. How ghetto is that?!?! 

This is what I saw when I opened it up, no protective covering, & half eaten. Nasty!!!

As we were passing through Vegas, around 9pm, David threw up. So, we had to pull over at the next exit to clean him up. So there we were, in the parking lot of a McDonald's stripping down a crying boy while trying to keep the other kids from getting sick from the smell. That just keeps up our tradition of one child throwing up while we are on vacation, it has happened every time. (Did I mention in my earlier post that Joshua puked all over me our first night in Anaheim??)

After David was all cleaned up, we got back on the road. This was the only part of our trip we had not planned out. We did not have a hotel reserved and it was Memorial Day weekend, so we were having a difficult time finding somewhere affordable and available. After a few hours on my phone and with Nicky's help, we found a hotel in Cedar City. 

We pulled into our hotel around 1am. After waiting forever for someone to come to the front desk and check us in, we finally got the last room they had and headed to finally sleep for the night. Can I just tell you, this place was GHETTO!!!! But, I didn't care, I was tired and we needed somewhere to sleep, and it was cheap.