Utah Trip

We got to go to Utah for General Conference a couple of weeks ago. One of Wes's favorite people from his mission flew up for Conference, so we met him up there. It was so good to see him, as well as my sisters and Skyler.

I really wanted to drive through the canyon to see the fall colors, but we ran out of time, so this had to suffice on the way out of town. (Much prettier in person).


We have always come up with ridiculous types of competitions. This game was invented a few years ago, when Hallie and Tai got these shape sorters. You basically just try to get all the shapes in as fast as you can. We forgot about it until Saturday night when we were hanging out at Meagan's house...we all got in on the action this time!


We went to the best place for Tai and Tag's birthday. It's called the Incredible Pizza Company or something like that. They had an all-you-can-eat pizza/salad/dessert buffet, arcade games, bumper cars, laser tag, race cars, goofy golfing,etc. We definitely got our money's worth. The kids (and us) had so much fun! We would go there again, if we were ever up there.

The kids table

The race cars were actually pretty fast for being for little kids

They had this virtual game where you watch the video and you could feel everything in your chair (going up and down, bumps, etc)
Kamryn was really sick on Friday, throwing up all day. It was such poor timing, and slowed us down on our vacation. She was still very lethargic on Saturday...I basically held her all day. But she did love a couple of the little rides in the kiddie area. I wish she had felt better, because there was a lot to do there, even for kids her age!Jaxson participated in the dance party. This picture doesn't show it, but he does the "Jaxson boogy" aka dancing like a robot.

We strolled around Temple Square on Friday afternoon. Meadow met up with us there for a little while.
The guys (Wes, Omar, and Edgar) rode on these race cars...they are really fast.

I waited in the lobby with the kids and tried to keep Kamryn from puking everywhere (she saved that for Wendy's just after we left).

The weather was so warm and beautiful, we never needed the jackets that I brought.
Edgar is Omar's cousin who is going to school in Provo. Hallie and Jaxson loved playing with him, he was such a good sport.

Thursday night we were to an authentic Ecuadorian restaurant in Salt Lake City. We met up with one of Wes's old companions, Elder Denby, Omar, and Omar's mother-in-law. The kids weren't too sure about some of the food, but we found some things for them to eat too.
We ended up being there for quite awhile, and the kids were definitely antsy. We were watching some kind of International channel that was showing all the political turmoil going on in Ecuador. I was glad to have Omar there to tell us what was really going on.
The whole group at the restaurant. There were lots more past missionaries that we didn't know.
It was really good to see Omar and get to tell our kids about him and his family. I was glad he got to meet our kids. Hopefully next time we will get to see his wife too!

And it was really good to see my sisters (we never go to Utah), and Sklyer and his girlfriend who drove up for the weekend. We packed a lot into the weekend, but it was so much fun.