Quick trip for work and pleasure...

Before school started Brent had some testing he needed to do for work up at the University of Utah (I almost feel like a traitor admitting that he has been working up there a lot this past year...I am so cougar, through and through). Anyway, the kids and I thought this would be the perfect time to go hang out with the cousins for a few days.  We spent the first day up there in Ogden at "the ninja warrior park"(not really a ninja warrior park but it has a zip line and cool objects). The kids have been really into watching American Ninja Warriors and they spent hours reenacting cool moves. We had a picnic lunch and on the way home stopped at this cool mix your own soda drink shop. The day was super fun but the traffic back through salt lake was crazy and we got back late and slept well. The next day we went to the Bean Museum at BYU. The huge grizzly inside the door awesomely scared everyone and Jocelyn was enamored with all the buffalo (bison). Creed was not a fan of the jumping lion thing or the polar bear....Of course since we were next door to the Creamery we had to stop for ice cream. That afternoon we headed up to Liberty park for a picnic. The older kids took a paddle boat around the "lake" (big pond) while Creed and I rode the Farris wheel and other kiddie rides. After a while the cousins met us and we went to Trace Aviary which was really cool. We could have spent way more time there but we wanted to avoid traffic. Friday Brent took the day off and came with us to the zoo. Creed wanted to see monkeys. We spent all day there and in the evening we hit the sugar house farmer's market and got snow cone action. We also saw the minion movie at a redone theater with the best reclining leather lazy boys ever. Creed even let me watch most of it so it was awesome. Saturday we drove up to Stansbury Park and went to our other cousin's baptism. We hadn't been to their house since they were building it before any of these cousins were even born. It was really fun to see. We had another great picnic lunch and took the long way home. It was an awesome drive. Sunday we went to church with Brent's sister and booked it back home. It was a really packed trip...packed with good times and memory making. We are so lucky to be a family and have the extended family we do....Yet again not sure where the pictures went....