Friday, July 03, 2015

More Utah Fun–Wednesday to Friday

After our day at Lagoon, we were pretty worn out on Wednesday.  Christie and I did take the kids to the Kangaroo house, where they have a ton of bounce houses and slides to play on.  It was nice and air conditioned, and the kids had a great time burning energy. 

That night, Christie put together a fun early birthday party for James, complete with balloons and a Ninja Turtle birthday cake.

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James was excited for his new basketball, frisbees, and Ninja Turtles puzzle!

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The next day, we went to visit Grandma Brewer.  It is always fun to see her and her bubbly personality.  Just after we left her place, Shane’s Uncle Kip and Aunt Maryanne came over to visit.  They had just returned from their time with Kip serving as mission president for three years in Port Villa, Vanuatu day before.  It was so great to see them after so long!

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Grandma Brewer always loves to visit with her grandkids, even though she doesn’t remember exactly who everyone is anymore.  She had fun visiting with Shane, and Kelly showed her pictures of his fiancee, Jessa.

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We spent a lot of the week just trying to keep cool in the hot weather.  More than once, we found the kids outside, soaking wet, and spraying each other with the hose.  They also had fun with the sidewalk chalk game Christie organized for them.  Cousin time is the best!

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One evening, Kent and Christie even treated us to some delicious Hawaiian shaved ice.  Yum!

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Utah Trip–A Day in Salt Lake

On Friday, we decided it would be fun to ride the Frontrunner to Salt Lake City for the day.  We had quite the crew!  The boys were excited to ride on the train, and Asher for some reason liked pointing out all the porta potties along the way (they were doing some work on the tracks so there were quite a few of them).

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We spent some time exploring the visitors’ center on Temple Square.  The boys had never been there, and they liked all the different interactive displays.  They also loved the room with the Christus statue – who wouldn’t?  (James for some reason didn’t want to take a picture, so this is the best we got).

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After lunch, we went to the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to get a good view of the temple, then walked along the temple grounds.  We ended with a tour of the Conference Center, but by that point my pregnant body was pretty tired, so I waiting in the lobby with Davis (who was tired too), while everyone else went on the tour.  The boys really enjoyed everything that we did.  We’ll have to go again with them sometime!

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