We spent the week of New Years in Utah with my awesome family. I love them! We always have the most memorable Utah trips. Excuse the fact that I have so many instagram pics in this post - but I am loving sharing pictures this way lately - maybe because it makes my mediocre quality phone pictures look passable by being "polaroid vintage". haha.
On our way!...
The kids always get so excited when we reach St. George, because it means we are finally in Utah and only a few hours away from Grandma's house!
The closer we got to Grandma's house, the colder it got... :)
We played a lot of games during our visit...
And a lot of Wii - I got stomped..
And we had some yummy lunches out... I love Noodles!
My family introduced us to The Melty Way - delicious gourmet grilled cheese!
Grandma took the kids out Christmas shopping and they got to pick out some fun new toys. Emma got a pink guitar- she loves it! Ben tried to give her some tips...
On New Years Eve, we went to Hogle Zoo lights. We probably should have checked the temperature before we headed out, because it was crazy cold! Our kids were SO cold, sad, and whiney. But now it will be known as "that time we went to see zoo lights in Utah and froze our bums off".
We tried to huddle inside whenever possible and got plenty of hot chocolate, but everyone's toes still felt like they would fall off - Claire looks happy doesn't she?
But the lights were so pretty!
I love Becca's face in this picture...
Are you in there Claire?
Huddled around the heater...
After our very cold outing, we warmed up at home and played games and ate food. Aaron made us homemade soft pretzels - they were perfect!
We laughed so much while playing Scattegories - everything becomes funny after 11pm....
The kids went to bed around 9 - but first they did some confetti poppers - here's an action shot of their excitement... Happy New Year! 2013!!
Ben built a snow fort for the kids outside. They helped a little... but it was mostly Ben - he was determined...
Brrr... beware of icicles...
Claire wouldn't really keep gloves on, but whenever she would get snow on her hands, she would come to me like this...
Dad got us a Groupon to go bowling and get pizza and soda. Guess who won... Jake!
Claire was eating her pizza really weird... she would just eat all the toppings off the top and leave all the bread...
We went to Salt Lake to visit my Grandparents - they are so wonderful...
We went ice skating at The Gallivan Center - it was so fun! Emma especially enjoyed it - I think she would really love skiing... someday we'll have to take her.
Waiting for the Zamboni to finish up on the ice... Watching the Zamboni was Dad's favorite part. :)
On our last day in Utah we went sledding - we were out there for probably just 20 minutes. My kids just get cold so quickly and I don't have the best snow clothing for them - but it was fun!
The level of cold while you were here was just painful!!
ReplyDeleteIf it was like that very often we would all move!
You were good sports.
I bet Arizona felt wonderful after being in this freezer.
It's actually fairly normal today (normal cold that is). The sun came out and Bens snow fort caved in. Part of it is still heroically standing. Anyway, glad nobody lost any fingers and toes while you were here.
Enjoyed your visit, good thing you came during a warm spell. It was -2 this moring, and is 12 at 3pm, the warmest hour of the day. Can't wait for our return visit to toastyland!
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