Wednesday, May 7th: Our Stay at Tim and Julia's Home and Our Trip to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point

We stayed at Tim and Julia's house Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night and had a great time!

On Wednesday, we went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. Tim and Julia told us about it a couple of years ago and Leah has been excited to see it ever since, so we had to check it out while we were in Utah. We went with Julia, Simone and baby Anjuli. The kids had a great time!

This is Anjuli. She is so cute!

Leah and Mason loved playing with their cousins and couldn't keep their hands off Anjuli. This is Leah and Anjuli in the car on the way to the museum.

Mason, Simone and Leah at the Museum entrance.

Joe couldn't keep his hands out of the water table and helped the kids build some dams.

Joe doing some excavating.

Mason finds cars everywhere we go, even at the dinosaur museum.

Tuesday, May 6: Trip to Provo to Visit Uncle Carson

We left our hotel Tuesday afternoon and headed off to Provo to visit Uncle Carson at BYU. On the way, we stopped by Costco to get some food and sunblock (I have never been more excited to see a Costco! I told Joe that if he moves us away, we have to move close to one) and we also stopped by the Distribution Center to buy Leah her own scriptures. She was so excited to finally get them. She earned them by memorizing all 13 Articles of Faith. Here are some pictures from Tuesday:

Our Hotel in Downtown Salt Lake City

Leah and Mason snuggling in their bed at the hotel

I guess I was the first one awake...that doesn't happen often!


PROVO (BYU)

We told Carson that we wanted to go on a hike because it was such a beautiful day, so he took us on a little trail that led to the BYU campus. He wanted to show us around the building where he takes his classes.

Here we are, still hiking around campus. It was such a nice day and the kids were so excited to see Uncle.

Here is Carson at his desk. Everyone in there is really smart and some are kind of nerdy. Whatever they do in there is way over my head! (Cars is working on his Masters Degree in Computer Science.)

Here is Mason in the hall getting a drink. He is never satisfied unless he completely soaks his shirt.

Joe took off to get info at the Marriot School of Business Building while we walked back to Uncle Carson's apartment. (Mason has no pants because he had an accident.)

The kids think Carson is so much fun. Here he is showing him his talking Yoda doll. After that, Mason found some zip ties and played with those. Before we left, Joe played one game of Guitar Hero and we were off to Salt Lake to stay with Joe's sister Julia.

Monday, May 5th-Fun in Salt Lake City at the Wheeler Historic Farm and Temple Square

The weather was beautiful yesterday and should be that way for the rest of our stay. We are all a little sun kisses.

We started the day by going to the grocery store, then we went back to our hotel and had lunch and then headed of to The Historic Wheeler Farm. The kids had a great time looking at the animals and we even went on a tractor ride. We only had trouble finding the farm. The street directions are so confusing!

Here are pictures from the farm:













The kids loved the farm. Mason was a bit confused about where he can and can't go potty through. On our drive to Idaho/Utah, we just stopped on the side of the road when he needed to go potty and let him 'water the grass'. At the farm, Mason said, "Mom, I have to go potty." I turned around to look for and ask Joe where the potty was and when I turned around, Mason had his pants around his ankles and was peeing in front of a lot of people. He said (really loud), "Mom, I'm going potty!". I was so embarrassed and of course, Joe was no where in sight.

After we visited the farm, we were all pretty tired and we went back to the hotel and Mom and Mason took a nap.

After dinner, we walked to temple square and looked at a few things. Here are some pictures from our visit:

Leah and Mason with food all over his face. (Why didn't I notice that???)

Here we are on the roof of the Conference Center. The give tours now, which was pretty interesting. Our tour guide was Gil and he was a really nice grandpa.

We had a really fun day and we were all so tired when we finally got home. On to more fun tomorrow!

Sunday, May 4th-Left Rexburg and Drove to Salt Lake City

We went to church with Brent and Brenda in the morning, came home and had a yummy lunch and then packed up the car and headed off to Salt Lake City. I took this picture of Joe and Brent before we left. These superhero tattoos are from Brent's lunch meat. Joe got the Iron Man and Brent got the Iron Monger (Good always defeats evil as you can see by the size of the arms :-)

We stopped by Pocatello to see the house where Joe's dad grew up. No one was home, so we just took a few pictures. I think Joe really wanted to see the inside because he hadn't been there since he was young.


We finally got to our hotel in Salt Lake City around 7pm and then we took the restless kids swimming. The only thing I forgot was my swimsuit, but Dad is more fun anyways:)







We all slept well!