For our family vacation this summer (Memorial Day Weekend), Paul planned a mini vacation to Utah to ride Thomas in Heber Valley. This is the second time we've ridden Thomas. Our first time was when Ash was nearly four, and Brenn was 8 months. So this trip was really for him. He loved it!! He got so excited when he saw the "Real Thomas."
We spent a couple of hours doing all the activities. The kids had a lot of fun, and were really good.
We spent the night at a hotel in Draper so that the kids could go swimming. Paul gets really good Travel Agent rates, and doing things like that are fun to him.
Sunday, we drove around Draper for about an hour, trying to make it up the mountain to see the new Temple. By the time we got there it was drizzling and really cold. What a beautiful temple. We then went to the Jordan River and Ocher Mountain Temples, which are both visable from the Draper Temple.
That afternoon and night we spent at Aunt Dee-Dee's and Uncle Jeff's. The kids love being around them, just as I did (and still do) as a child. It was always the best to work with Uncle Jeff. Ash was hoping for a horse ride, but with Jeff working out of town all the time he had lots of chores to catch up on. But she got to spend three hours Monday morning going all over with him. She had a blast, and even wrote her writing lesson about it on Tuesday at school...
"This Memorial Day I I went with my unckl Jiffe. we went to the stor. we got 20 bords we put them in the trailer we got a gringk we went home"
They didn't just go to the store... They went to the store, then the dump in SLC that was closed (Memorial Day guys!!), back to the store because they forgot something, and then to get a drink. Three hours later!!!!
We made it home by five, and went straight to the parents for a BBQ, where Ryan dried to burn all of his hair off (got to close to the grill and couldn't get it lit the first time).
2 Full Days, and 3 Half days and counting until "Schools out for Summer!!"
