Park City - UEA Weekend 2010

With the grandkids in school...I have to really plan ahead in order to get everyone together for a mini-vacation! This year we decided to stay alittle closer to home and we booked the Marriott Mountainside in Park City! We had two condo's with two bedrooms each...and we had a great time from Wed. after school until Sat. late afternoon, October 13-16th! The grandkids loved the heated outdoor pool! The weather up in Park City was absolutely beautiful! Sage (8), Kenadee (8 next week) and Bailee (9) had a blast throwing each other!

Hunter (in the goggles) and Curtis who are both 6...had fun playing sharks!

Jade and Jake...both 3 years old...are a very crazy pair when they get together!

Amy and Grandma Teeples enjoyed sitting by the pool in the great sunshine!

Little Paxton (18 months) was always napping when the kids were in the pool...but he had fun playing along the edge!

All the kids love Grandpa!!!

Little Paxton follows Grandpa around like a little shadow!

Michelle and Paxton watching the kids swim!

Back in the condo's we had fun playing games....the kids are getting big enough for card games...

Jade (3) and Eliza (4) love dancing and coloring.....I loved watching these two little girls having fun....every where we went they were holding hands!

Below, we are all walking down to the bus stop to head over to the cool city park!

Marriott has lots of kid activities in the play area....Friday all the kids went and did the Fuze beads and Jade and Eliza played on the horses in their matching shirts!

The little boys brought some small toys and played really well together!

Below is Little Cohen (1) having his breakfast I think!

Getting ready for the day!

Half the fun of going on vacation is doing nothing at all...and by the picture below, you can see that the men have perfected that activity!

Bailee, Paxton and Kenadee

Hunter the horse..of course! I loved the goggles on Hunter and Curtis!

Like I said above...we rode the free city bus to the Park....they have a great playground for the kids! Below, little Jake is holding on tight!

Kenadee and Sage are never far apart!

I didn't get alot of playground pictures.....because I was too, too lazy to follow the kids around! But, the monkey bars were right in front of where I was sitting....

Before leaving the park....I had all the kids that could...climb up on the spider web...from the top down is Bailee, Curtis, Sage, Kenadee, Jade, Jake and Eliza!

While waiting for the bus to pick us back up from the park....we had head stand contests, and cartwheel contests!

On Saturday morning...everyone but Grandma (me) and Cohen and Paxton went on the Alpine Slide! This is Cohen and Paxton waiting patiently for the sliders to come down the hill!

Both pictures were so cute....I had to post them both!

Finally....they started coming down the slide....Bailee was brave enough to go by herself! I didn't get over to them in time to get my 77 year old mother coming down! The funniest part was watching her get out of the sled!

All the kids immediately wanted to go again...but the lines were forever long! So, we headed to Wendys for lunch and then over to the Olympic Park!

The kids had fun in the bobsleds and looking at all the different displays!

Eliza...below....trying her hand at the skeleton!

Sage and Kenadee trying their skills at the downhill!

Bailee, Kenadee and Sage playing a skiing game! Bailee must have won!

We all had a really great time....Erin and I must have really avoided the camera...we are nowhere to be seen! I tend to like it that way! Sorry Erin!

We had a great time, great food (and lot's of it) and really great company!

City of Rocks

We had the great opportunity to travel to Almo, Idaho (way out in the middle of nowhere) with some of the great people in our Ward to visit a National Preserve called City of Rocks! We stayed in the cutest Western Lodge in Almo.....in a two bedroom suite that was just beautiful. I went expecting a best western type hotel and it was so nice! It was called Almo Outpost Inn. Above is a picture of David and I up on the rocks!

We got this great shot above of the group! Thanks Sandi for the amazing photos!

We were the last to arrive Friday night....we could have been their an hour earlier but we got royally lost....we were on some gravel road for almost 30 miles...but we made it!

Those that had got their earlier in the day, were able to go to the Dufree Hot Springs and then out to dinner at the Outpost Steakhouse.

Saturday Neil and Caroline made a delicious full course breakfast and Doug and Sandi fed us a great lunch in the park of sandwiches! And then to top off the day, we stopped at Maddox for dinner...which how can you ever go wrong with Maddox! It was a great trip....Thanks to the Briggs for putting it together.

My Hawaiian Adventure

Our daughter Amy and her family had the wonderful opportunity to live in Hawaii for 7-8 weeks this summer! I didn't have much time off from work...but I decided to take two days off and turn it into a 5 day weekend and thanks to frequent flyer miles...I was able to go over and stay with them for 4 nights! It was a fast and furious trip (which I almost missed because of a summer storm in SLC and my plane was diverted to Twin Falls) but things worked out and I had a great time with the kids! I didn't get to their little rental house until late Wed. night and so we just went right to bed....but bright and early Thurs. morning we were up and took a walk along their little beach and then headed to the Polynesian Cultural Center...which we could have just walked right across the street but Amy drove me up around the temple and over to some cool beach point!

Amy lived right across the street from the PCC but she and the kids had never dared venture over by themselves...so I was glad that we got to go when I was there!

We spent Friday morning at their little beach...and minus the jelly fish stings that Kenadee and Curtis experienced...we had a great morning! The kids were amazing in the ocean....everyone of them had mastered the art of watching the waves and knowing when to jump. It was so fun to watch them....especially that little Jake.....he would get knocked down and then just get right back up and head right back into the waves!

Friday afternoon, we went to some little city North of Laie and had some amazing snow cones with Ice cream hidden in the center. They were really good and just the perfect thing on a hot Hawaii day! You can tell that the 4 hour difference in time is catching up on that poor grandma above!

Can you guess which beach this is??? If you said turtle beach...your right! Turtles were all over in the water along the shore and this guy (or gal) had crawled up for a little nap in the sun!

Sat. Jon took a much needed day off and we ventured to Sea Life Park which is a very, mini like Sea World! The kids loved the big aquarium and the dolphin show! After sea life park we spent the rest of the evening on the beach watching the Sun go down.

Sunset Beach truly lived up to its name.....it was so fun to watch Jon and the kids just loving the time together and enjoying the ocean waves! Below, you can just see them having fun with the sunset behind them!

Below are a couple of cute pictures I snapped of Amy's family........

The first one was at Sea Life Park waiting for the dolphin show and trying to keep Jake entertained!

The one below...was taken at some State Park above Wakiki..you can see Diamond Head in the background! This was on the way back to the airport!

I am so GLAD that I got to go and see what Amy and her family were experiencing in Hawaii....it was alot of fun!