Back to Utah

After a week and a half in Idaho Falls we drove back down to Utah, this time to stay with Brad and Ali.  On Friday, July 20th, we spent the day in Salt Lake City.  We went to Temple Square and to the History Museum.  We walked around a little, with our main goal being the children's area, but we got turned away because they were already full. :( 

We met up with Brad and Rich and ate lunch at City Creek. After lunch we went to the Disney Store to buy Carver some Cars.  That boy is obsessed with Lightening McQueen.

At this point Buffy went home.  Ali and I, looking to completely exhaust ourselves and our children, continued on with a trip around Salt Lake on Trax.

Oh yeah, we had to get a picture in front of the temple.  Walking there, Ali and I discussed in length how it would be our luck that one of our kids would fall in the reflective pool.  Carver, never wanting to disappoint, fell in right after I took this picture.

Our final stop was a tour of Brad's law office.  Super surreal that Brad really is a lawyer and has a real office over looking temple square.

Later that evening I picked Todd up from the airport. He had been in Kansas city and Wichita for work.

Saturday morning we drove south to Sandy for a day at the Family Fun Center.

Bounce toys, Lazar tag, ball pits, pizza party, scooters, arcade games, and water slides. Super fun.

This may be the only photo evidence that I was on this trip...



To Idaho

We started Idaho off with a trip out to see Great Grandma Madsen and to Rigby Lake. Ezri and Zane were with us and we also met up with Jillian Sleight and her kids.

When we got back to Grandma's we took bets to see how long Carver's diaper would hold.

I got to spend the weekend with my best friends from high school.  We've made it a tradition to go up to Jillian's parents' cabin in Island Park every year...I love these girls so much!

(Amy Hobbs Torngren, me, Jillian Maughan Sleight, Emily Thuernagle Grant, Sarah Stimpson Birch)

 Of course, we went to the zoo with Grandma.

And Grandma helped the girls sew these skirts-

Riley and Macie went to an Idaho Falls Chuckars game with Grandma and Grandpa where Riley caught a fly ball!  They were all so excited.  Riley got the Chuckar mascot to sign it, and they went up with the Murdock's in their suite when it was raining.  They had a blast.

It was Grandma's work party (the hospital), so we spent a day a Melaleuca Field doing rock climbing, the batting cages,  face paint, the dunk tank, and the water slides.

Carver rode this train around the field so many times.  There weren't any kids waiting, so he just kept circling over and over.  I finally had to get him off because I honestly thought he was going to fall asleep while on it.

We spent an afternoon at Gem Lake.
Grandma proved her swesomeness by tubing with Riley.

 Riley proved her awesomeness by crossing the wake for the first time.

I proved my awesomeness by getting up on my first attempt.

And Macie proved her awesomeness by trying to kneeboard for the first time...

almost.

We spent one evening at the Idaho Falls Temple and Visitor's Center.

Carver was very concerned about the marks on Christ's hands and feet.  He kept saying, "Owie, owie!" It was pretty sweet.

We also picked raspberries and relaxed with Grandpa :)
But just for a minute.  Most of the time we were on the move.