Last weekend after church, we headed down to Utah! We spent Sunday evening at my Aunt Pam's house (where no pics were taken sadly). It was a lot of fun to catch up and eat delicious food that was from my Grandma Summers' recipe!
We stayed the night in the condo and then headed to Provo in the morning to go to the temple Open House. Kayla has been so excited that she actually got to go in the temple this time! She was a little nervous that Jesus might be there, since its his house, but we reassured her she probably wouldn't see Him. :)
We picked up Brett's good friend Michael and took him with us to the Open House. I was impressed that even down in the parking garage, you could see the temple and it was beautiful. It was a quick tour, but Kayla really did seem impressed and I loved the murals in the instruction rooms.
Today while chatting with Kayla, she was talking about our temple trip. She then got a concerned look on her face and said, "Mommy, Jesus had yucky stuff on his face." I asked her what she meant and she rubbed her chin and said, "Yeah, just like Jon." Haha! I let her know that its actually called a beard. Haha!! She makes me laugh so hard.
I'm so grateful to live close to so many opportunities like this for our kids. We're looking forward to going through the Star Valley and Idaho Falls temples when they hold open houses. Especially Idaho Falls so that we can show Kayla where mommy and daddy got married.
While driving around town, the steering wheel was shaking really bad. I had noticed it a few days earlier, but it was getting really bad really quickly. Brett suggested we get it fixed when we get home, but I felt strongly that we should get it checked that day. We headed to Les Schwabb after the Open House and turns out our front tires were separating because they were so bald. Because we were going up into the canyon, we both agreed we should get it taken care of then, so we got new tires and all is well again!
We had lunch and explored BYU campus listening to Brett reminiscing. We then headed up the canyon to Midway to go to the Ice Castles. It was amazing!
We waited in line for pictures with Anna, Elsa, and Christoff. Kayla is a big Frozen fan but the idea of being near the actual people was terrifying. She cried for awhile and we told her she didn't have to be in the picture. She stood far away while we got the picture and darted into the castle to be away from the characters! Disney Land is far off for us.
They had a cool slide that started up at the top and I took this shot from up above.
Tyson loved going down the big slides. Brett and I didn't have snow pants on and our bums were soaked by the end!
There was a kiddie slide that Kayla went down a few times. We accidentally forgot her gloves, so she wore mine and they were huge on her.
So, I love Stephanie Nielson. While we were there, we saw her and her family! I was excited with my Mormon celebrity sighting! I snapped this photo of her just as she looked over. She totally caught me and just smiled. Brett said I looked like a crazy person and I should have just gone up and said hi. I didn't want to bother her, but instead looked like a stalker.
The kids really had so much fun! There were tunnels to climb through and lots of slides. It was a perfect little winter wonderland! Tyson's smile in this photo is perfect!
By this point, Kayla started asking to see Anna and Elsa. Unfortunately, we were too far in to get another photo of her.
I sure love these two guys! It was such a cool experience (no pun intended!). We'll definitely be going back in the future.
On the way home from Utah, we had a bit of an adventure! It was really foggy the entire drive. So foggy in fact, that we missed the exit off the freeway that heads towards Pocatello. I was sitting in the back with the kids and started to notice that I didn't recognize any of the signs once we could even see them. Then we saw the sign that said Burley, Boise, and knew we were on the wrong road! We checked google maps and it told us to take the next exit to Snowville and it would let us cut across and get back on I-15. We soon found ourselves on a road that wasn't plowed and the fog was still awful! We drove slowly for about an hour and reached a state highway. We turned the way Google Maps told us to go again, and the road got worse! We realized that the state highway was only the other direction. We turned around and luckily after that, it was more plowed. That road took us to Malad. Once we got past Malad pass on the freeway the fog cleared up. It was a little crazy and gave us almost 2 extra hours on our trip. Good thing we had enough gas! It sure makes for a more memorable trip.
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