Quick Trip

This past Saturday one of my good friends got married in Utah. I really wanted to go, but didn't know how with 4 little kids and no husband. Much to my surprise Jeremy said he could take me! We loaded the kids up Saturday and headed down to Salt Lake. We had a full day planned- first stop- The Disney Store. We can't go to Utah and not go into this fun store. It's one of my favorite things to do. We always let the kids pick out something fun and they have a good time. Our next stop was Chuck E. Cheeses. We were actually trying to find the aquarium, but hadn't had lunch yet and we happened to come across Chuck E.'s The kids are always wanting to go there so we said what the heck. It was really fun!!! We had pizza and the kids got some tokens to play some games.

Piper

Chuck E. Cheese

My Stockton

Brooklyn, Jeremy, and Piper playing a game

Reese taking a ride in a monster truck

We even got some sketches drawn of all of us in a little machine there. They were really cute! We stayed there a while and then headed to The Living Planet Aquarium. Our GPS got us lost (the operator probably wasn't working it right) and there was construction everywhere so Jeremy found a back road and got us there. It was really cool.

The girls loved the huge fish and turtle swimming with the sharks. They also had a big octopus and jelleyfish.



In this picture Brooklyn is standing by the electric eels. If you touch this it will shock you to let you feel what it would feel like to be shocked by an eel. It gave you a little zing! They also had a neat sting ray pool where you could actually pet them, but none of us were brave enough to do that. We knew it was time to go when Reese started having a meltdown from lack of a nap and Brooklyn's flip flop broke. So we made our way to the hotel for a short rest and then to find JaNae's reception.

Reese finally fell asleep while we drove to the hotel with fun dip sugar all over her face from Chuck E. Cheeses. I think the kids really enjoyed going to the aquarium. Next stop-JaNae's reception. We had a heck of a time trying to find it, but we made it. There was a ginormous (is that a word?:) long line and I was worried how long the kids would stay there with us, but they did awesome. They were probably so tired from the day we had they didn't have the energy to move ;) JaNae's reception was fun. It was so good to see her. I would've liked to visit with her for an hour and catch up. She was glowing with happiness. Aly also came so we got to visit with her too. It was so good to see them.

After the reception we went back to the hotel to go swimming. The kids absolutely love to swim! When we were done I threw the kids in the tub while Jeremy went to get some dinner. He brought back KFC with all the fixings and it tasted so good. The kids konked out after dinner- they had a jam packed day of fun! In the morning we checked out of the hotel and went to hang out at my cousin Melanie's house. She just had twins about 2 months ago and we wanted to see them. We love visiting Matt and Melanie. Our kids have so much fun with their kids. This next picture is one of Reese holding Gwen- one of the twins. She loved those little babies.

We had so much fun on this little 24-hr. get-away. I guess I will take what I can get, it doesn't happen very often-oh the life of a dairy farmer.......