Utah Trip week 1

To avoid a very long post I'm going to do this in parts. This post will be about our first week in Utah.

We spent our first week with Grandpa Craig and Grandma Lydia. Grandma Lydia always has fun things planned for the kids. She likes to do "Boot Camp" with all the grand kids. They all come the night before it starts and they sleep on cots in the basement and then she blows her whistle early in the morning to get them going. They have breakfast, do chores (grandma really benefits from this one), learning time, games, activities, and of coarse lots of fun. It's usually 2 days long, which is plenty.

The first day was Mexican Fiesta day, they learned Spanish words, ate Mexican food, played Mexican games, did Mexicans dances, you get the picture.

The second day was Circus day, they played games, practiced for their circus and then performed for my moms neighbors kids, and then my brother did a magic show for them. My kids could have done boot camp all week long.

My mom planned a little birthday party for Payton, since she wouldn't be able to celebrate her real birthday with her next month. Payton loved it, especially the cupcake.

Other than the two days of boot camp, my moms house is pretty quiet and relaxing. They don't have TV reception and I don't usually get cell phone reception so it makes it a great place to get away from all the hustle and bustle of everyday life. It helps that my mom loves to help with the kids and play with them so I can have a break.

At the end of the week, we of coarse had to fit in some friend time. Carson and Ethan love to see Colton and Kassidee every time we go to Utah and were anxious to spend as much time as they could together. They are so cute, every time they see each other its as if no time has passed and they just pick up where they left off.

After seeing friends, the Evans family got together for some fun at Pirate Island. Ethan loves pirates so this was heaven for him. They have games to play, a gift shop, and of coarse food. The waiters were dressed as pirates.

Friends of ours invited us to go to the Riverton fireworks and they were awesome. We don't really do things like that very often because its such a pain to drag the kids and then fight the crowds, but it was alot of fun.

That was alot longer than I thought it was going to be(it was even the condensed version), imagine if I had done the whole trip in one post, you'd be reading this for a while.

Stay tuned for week 2.....