Utah Fun

Ok, so we've been back from Utah for almost 2 weeks now and it's been full throttle since then. With school starting, me working a ton and so on, I've had time to breathe and that's about it. So, here are a ton of pictures from our trip and just from those you can see how much fun we had! Thanks to the Wells Family for letting us crash at their house for a solid week! The girls did NOT want to leave and are wondering when Lexi and Ty will come to visit our house... your turn Katey :) Although, I'll let you wait and visit us in a new state.

We made it to Utah!! The girls were so excited to see Lexi and Ty and of course b/c of Miss Katey's creativity, we had an awesome welcoming party :)

We headed out on Saturday am to watch Lexi in a parade and dance performance. It was chilly! But the weather was AWESOME the entire time we were in Utah!

Seriously, who does that kid belong to? I just blame it on the inability to read considering the sign said "Feet First", but then again, since when do my children follow the rules? They had a blast on this bouncy slide. And yes, Emily rolled ALL the way down. She loved it.

This is how the girls walked out of the parade after Lexi's performance. So cute. They all got along great the entire week!

We made sure while we were there since Eric was TDY there that we got an adults night out and we headed to the dueling piano bar in Salt Lake City. It was a good time. It's my favorite place to go in Salt Lake City.

Our wonderful friends/host/hostess Jim and Katey didn't mind taking a picture with us. Well, at least they said they didn't :)

This would be our own makeshift water park! Katey and Jim celebrated a wedding anniversary while we were visiting so I gave them the afternoon off and sent them to Park City while I took care of all the girls. We painted nails, ate lots of junk food and played out back.

We had rest time with the girls so we could have some rest time too. Katey stole my idea when I started on the girls quilts, so they all have matching quilts. They loved it!

To go with their matching quilts, Katey had found them all matching outfits. See, you thought I was bad:) We tried to get them to do a mini photo shoot, but they would barely stop bouncing long enough to get a handful of pictures. And then there was Emily's attitude thrown in there a few minutes later. Katey saw that Emily wasn't just this cute, sweet and innocent 18 month old that left Utah a few years ago.

We got a good laugh out of this game the girls would play on the trampoline called "Dead Man". Or something like that. Basically the girls would chant some little bit and bounce until the person that was laying down and was "it" would get up and chase someone to tag them and they would be the next person to be "it". Well, every time Nichole was "it", Lexi would yell, "don't get me, I'm your best friend, get your sister". We couldn't help but laugh.

This was taken from my phone, but it's still a cute pic. This defined them for most of the week.

And of course, Katey and I had to take a picture of ourselves sitting on this way comfortable and relaxing swing underneath their porch.

The girls also performed a show for us. Gotta love Emily's pose here. What a group of girly girls! :)

My little sister, Aunt Carrie heard we'd be in town, so she made the few hour drive down with her fiancee Eric. She was entertained by the girls as well. Must say, I LOVE the background in this picture and the only thing that would make it better was to see white on those big hills;) Thanks for making the drive Carrie!

Katey would let me sleep in and this is how she kept the kids quiet every morning. Ok, not EVERY morning since I tried laying poptarts out but they just weren't into those after having donuts! :)

About mid way through the week Emily and Ty became the best of friends. Ty is just under a year younger than Emily and Emily had fun being the "oldest" and even got Ty to play ponies and house with her. Haha! Cracks me up! And nothing beats jumping on the trampoline in your pajamas either!

This is one fun group of kiddos who were all pretty well behaved for the week!

Ty and Emily playing "house" at the top of the stairs.

I have a feeling we're in trouble with these girls when they get older!

The last night we were in town, Eric had to do something with his squadron so I got together with our old squadron commander's wife from Hill. They have since retired there so it was nice to get to visit with her. Just stinks Mayo couldn't have come out with us!

So that's the wrap. Thanks again to the Wells Family for hosting us. We had a great time and made many memories. I'm sure once the topic of moving comes up again, Nichole will ask about our blue house. But once we find out our next base, I'm expecting to get an email with flight itineraries from Katey ;)