a little vacation to utah: day 1

our poor kids hadn't gone anywhere all summer

while we went to hawaii, they were home

and we've spent all summer recovering from eleanor's surgery and cut finger

so we decided before we run out of summer, we needed to take a trip

we let the kids (and costs) decide where to go 

we were thinking seattle/our parents house with maybe a trip to the oregon coast on the way

or utah

and the kids decided utah

they really miss it

so we drove down thursday morning

first stop was in salt lake

we went to city creek first

and let eleanor pick a prize from the disney store for potty training and she chose these jammies

we got lunch and let them play on the dinosaurs like the old days

we had fun walking around temple square

family picture in front of the salt lake temple

on our way over to the conference center, we passed a homeless woman

noah couldn't reach in his little medicine bag fast enough to give her some money

i had to snap a picture

his loving heart makes me burst with pride

he cannot stand to leave someone wanting

we had such a nice tour of the conference center from an old man named lyle

then back to city creek

just a lady with her 5 kids

then we got to our hotel and took the kids swimming

we ordered pizza and maybe snuck a few bites while still at the pool

the kids never get tired of swimming

it was a great start to our mini vacation