Enjoying our Utah vacation

Last week the kids and I went bowling with Ben's sister Emily...it didn't go well. Well, it went well for Samuel and Henry. (Samuel 75, Henry 74, Emily 71, Sarah 70). It was a lot of fun and wasn't it nice of me to let everyone else win?

I got to see my roommates from BYU last Wednesday and Thursday. We had a lunch Wednesday at one of their homes and then on Thursday I was able to see one of them get married, have lunch together and go to the reception. It was great! Two of the guys that we hung out with came to the reception also. What a great 2 days!!
On Friday we went up to the Uintah's to Ben's Grandparent's cabin. Saturday we spent the day at the lake where Sadie caught 2 fish!

Still in UT

So, to catch everyone up on our UT vacation: Sadie also got strep, so off we went to the doctor again. Then on Sunday she had a rash--so back to the doctor. Sunday we had a get together at the park with Annette's (mother-in-law) side of the family. Monday the kids and I helped up at Grandma Blanche's. Today I took the kids down to Payson to my aunt and uncle's house. We saw them for a few minutes and then spent a couple of hours chatting with my cousin while the kids played. I hadn't seen them for 2-3 years. After that I took them up to Provo to visit with my best friend since birth Laura. I haven't seen her in probably 5-6 years, but there are some people that it doesn't matter how long it has been, it seems like yesterday. I hope to see a few other friends while I'm in town. Tomorrow we are off to the dentist and then I have a get together with 7 other girls that I roomed with at BYU. I'm very excited.

pics from Grandma Blanche's house

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Vacationing in Utah

Here we are in UT vacationing with Ben's family. We have been here for 5 days and we have already done a ton. On Saturday we had a family reunion and Samuel was sick. On Sunday Samuel was still sick so Henry and Sadie went to church with Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Emily. Sunday night Samuel was up until 2:00am just miserable because his rear end hurt. Monday morning Emily watched Henry and Sadie and I took Samuel to Urgent care, where my suspicions were proven correct...strep (both in his throat and on his rear). Odd you might say, but my boys have had it before. Thankfully antibiotics clear it up in no time. The city here has a free summer lunch program at the park near my in-laws, so we have been getting the free lunches each day. This has been nice. Monday night we went to the cheap movies (50 cents) and saw Horton Hears a Who. Tuesday we went to Ben's grandparents house to help with the cleaning out (didn't do much, but the kids were good). That evening we drove to Manti to see the Manti Pageant. I told the kids to pick some pants and a sweatshirt in case it got cold. A couple of minutes later Samuel came out and asked me what his coolest pants were. I told him I thought his jeans were. He wanted those because he wanted to be the coolest kid at the Pageant. Unfortunately those were wet in the dryer so, this is what he ended up with. Henry really liked it, Sadie wanted to see Mickey Mouse (she thought that the temple was the castle at Disney) and Samuel wanted to go home, until Grandpa convinced him that he didn't want to leave his Mom there. We had fun. Today it was lunch at the park, and a bug presentation at the library where we touched and saw a Madagascar hissing roach, tarantula, scorpion, boa constrictor and 2 different kinds of parrots. Henry and Sadie liked it, Samuel wanted to go home (are you sensing a theme here?)

High School Musical 3

We made it to Utah on Friday. Poor Samuel is pretty sick though. I put him and Sadie in bed really early last night and then Henry and I went up to East High (which is where Ben went to school) and watched them film a couple of scenes from High School Musical 3. It was fun to be with just Henry, and he had fun watching them film. I even remembered enough of my college education to tell him what was going on and some of the names of the equipment they were using. We went to a family reunion for Ben's Dad's side of the family yesterday. Henry and Sadie had fun, Samuel slept in the car for most of it.