This past weekend we went to Utah for a little vacation while the kids had a 4 day weekend from school. We did a little outlet mall shopping in Park City.. while i was doing that, Steven took the kids up to Olympic Park to check out the sites. Brynley got to running down the hill (ON ASPHALT!) and took a dive on her face. (WHY? why does it always have to be the face?)
Here's a pic after the "accident" when she fell asleep in the car. Besides the outside cosmetic "damage" she had a good sized cut inside her top lip and the force of the fall PUSHED one of her front teeth backward a bit. That really freaked me out (my little girl is NOT going to lose a front tooth!) and luckily there was a pediatric dentist up in Park city that was sweet enough to let me bring her in and check her out. Brynley is such a binky girl and this actually turned out to be a good thing because the dentist said that by sucking on the binky it would help bring that front tooth back into position. I can actually tell a difference from Thursday to today. So I guess Binky's aren't all bad!! (and the fact that the binky has also caused a little bit of a cross bite also worked in her favor in this situation!) but seriously - I've never heard a dentist say that a binky was a good thing! :o) Brynley was certainly happy to be able to have the binky as much as she wanted and needed!
We stayed with Steven's brother and his family for a couple of nights. Their little daughter Millie is so cute and the kids had a blast playing with her. She is almost as tall as Brynley and a year younger, but weighs MUCH less than brynley as well). I think Millie loved the attention she got from her 3 cousins! Here's all the kids lounging on the bean bag at my BIL's house.
We also took the kids to HOGLE ZOO. Michael has a report on an animal to do for school, so we thought this would be a good time to see some different animals and pick one for his report. he chose a Rhino - so we got a good pic of him in front of the rhinos!
We also went to Thanksgiving point to check out some dinosaur bones and play in the sand.
Such a happy dead dino..
Building a dinosaur (with pieces that are a little worn and don't stick too well anymore!) The one one Brynley's hair COMLETELY destroyed her braid and we had a really hard time getting her hair unstuck from the velcro!
Brynley decided to WASH and line up each plastic dino.
Luke grabbed me and said, "MOM! Take my picture right here!" Such a handsome little DEVIL! (and I really do mean that in the nicest way only a mother could say!)
We also went to temple square Friday afternoon after the zoo and snapped a few pictures.
Because of the rain I didn't get more than a couple photos of the kids dressed up on Sunday, but here's the best one of the 8 or so that I took.
We also learned last week that kids under 8 aren't allowed in the conference center! it will be FOREVER until we can take all our kids to conference at the same time. We enjoyed Sunday morning session in the taberbacle though and it was good for the kids. They actually behaved somewhat decent too! YAHOO! It was great to get out and do a little something fun. But, there is something about a vacation that just WEARS ME OUT! I think I came home more exhausted. It definately makes vacationing more of a challenge with kids. Despite the exhaustion, I can't wait to go somewhere again... where to next? President Monson DID just announce temple in Rome, Italy. Maybe we need to go over there for the open house!! (we've got a while to save up!) Ya right.. oversees trip with kids. Am I just asking for trouble?!
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No wonder you're exhausted! That would have been a lot for someone to do without kids! Stephen and I thought it would be fun to go to the Rome open house, too! We'll see you there!
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