What didn't we do?

We went on another lovely trip to Utah. My goal was to blog everyday I was there so I wouldn't have to do a huge post. Oops. We were so dang busy! I will try to give the readers digest condensed version, but no promises. Have fun reading!

Day uno

We left our house at 4:30 pm. Brooklyn pr

oceeded to whale the first two hours. We stopped to feed her, etc and she was not happy. I thought the next 15 hours were going to be H e double hockey sticks on earth, but then the sun went down and so did Brooklyn.

Avery was a champ. Just give the kid free range on movies and snacks and she will be a saint. We pulled into Park City at 8:30 am.

yay we made it!

We had breakfast...

chatted with my fam a bit...

and hit the sack for a couple of hours.

Then that night we did the most spectacular thing ever. We saw the last and final Harry Potter. Yes, I'm being a little sarcastic. Don't get me wrong, I have respect for Potter, but I didn't read all of the books. I'm not a hater, one day I will read them all. TC is obsessed and is probably cursing my name right now. Hey, I gave it my all and watched 4 HP movies in a week so I could be prepared.

It was so weird, I ran into Hermiane Granger.

Really though, the costumes at Jordan commons that night were wonderful. I felt the spirit of Harry Potter.

Day Dos

We just sort of milled around Park City

We got our pool on... Our goal was not to look like Casper next to our Arizona cousins.

Then we had a BBQ and ended it with nothing but the best. A Jones family talent show... maybe we should insert the word variety instead of talent.

There may have been dancing, doing the splits, rolling over, crazy singing and having people listen to your weird stomach noises in this line up.

Sadie and Devin finished it up with a little Marshall arts show. Don't mess with them.

After the show, my Mom did a presentation on her dad who just passed away, and my Dad did a presentation on his mom who passed away 4 years ago. It was neat. We also made my Grandma's homemade hot fudge to remember her. Before you watch this video, just remember that I love my daughter. But I also love practical jokes. If you think it is cruel and unusual, just know that I totally hooked her up with M and M's after. Don't call social services OK, I'm a really good Mom normally, I just had to do this.

PS just because you can't see trav in this film, he is just as involved as I am. That's right babe, I'm bringing you down with me.

Day Tres

We went boating at Jordanelle. We are so not boaters. We are boater wannabes. My parents rented a cool boat that held all of their precious grand kids.

So maybe we didn't know how long the rope had to be to pull a wake boarder, or how fast the boat should go to pull a wake boarder, but did that stop us from wake boarding. No. By the way the answer to that is 75 feet for the rope and about 16-18 mph. We found this out later.

We also tubed. I know it took everything in my Dad's power to go slow as he pulled his grand kids. He is usually pretty crazy when it comes to tubes.

Good self control Sid (except for when you dragged the tube over a log and quickly ended Jack's excitement for boating.)

Before

After

Brayden didn't set foot in that cold water. He has been Phoenixized (yes that is a word)

Before

After

PS Doesn't he look like Bieber? So hot.

This was Brooklyn's debut on a boat. She wasn't a fan of the life jacket... I think she thought it made her look chunky or something.

Avery was a fan of her capri sun (and spilling it, oops!), and surprisingly didn't want anything to do with the water.

Or maybe she thought jumping into the water was like walking the plank, and she would rather be the captain?

Speaking of captains.... that reminds me of pirates. And yes, we did make a pirate flag.

Don't mess.

I learned from this trip, that even though it took me 5 minutes to jump into the cold water, and about 1 minute to recover from being in the cold water, there is nothing more refreshing than jumping into a freezing cold lake. I hope I remember this lesson the next time the opportunity comes, because I almost wussed out.

Day quatro

It was a Sunday morning, and we woke up to this.

So sad. So instead of church, we watched the woman's world cup at uncle Scott's house (did you know that Travis is older than my uncle... just a funny side note). Seriously, who wins the World Cup in penalty shots? We totally outplayed you Japan... but I guess it was a good thing for your country, with all of the devastation, so we will allow you the victory.

That night, we said good bye to the Jolley's as they headed back to the sauna, aka Phoenix.

See ya crazies!

Day cinco

We said good bye to Draper and headed back to Park City for the beloved Charles reunion. These folks take their reunions serious.

We met up at a park and the first event of the reunion was midget Olympics. I will let the pictures do the talking..

I love the human hurdle...

Yeah I wonder if the Charles competitiveness is going to be passed on to the next generation?.... hmmmm

This was their first meeting ever...

They might be kissing cousins... minus the conjunctivitis that is. Thank goodness for antibiotics.

Baby Dom, you are so sweet, I don't know where your mom got the idea that you were a fussy baby? I was expecting theatrics from you, but you were so mellow. Don't take whatever your Mama is smoking, OK?

After the great feat, we got all of our stuff ready and headed up here to go camping.

Seriously, if you live in Utah, don't take those dang mountains for granted. They are amazing! And what the green? I've never seen it that green. I got to reap the benefits of a long drawn out winter, without having to be apart of it. Thanks for that!

Camping was interesting. It was fun, but I'd say more work than fun because of the stinkin' rain. We had the perfect site, the coolest people and some great food, but for some reason, it just didn't come together. Probably because it took all evening to get the tents up, start a fire to cook dinner, then by the time we put the kids to sleep, we all were spent.

I don't really know why I'm putting this picture here, but I just thought i needed to. Uncle Kevin is probably one of the coolest men around.

Of course we had to make S'mores happen. She was in Heaven.

By the way, I found the best thing on earth. I found Reece's candy bar, but not in the buttercups, I found them in candy bar form like a Hershey's bar. Perfect touch to the S'more. I tried googling a picture of one, but couldn't find one. It must have been a phantom find, but it was magical.

And I just want to give a shout out to little Liam for serenading us to sleep.

Ha! This was his first camping trip, and needless to say, he wasn't a fan. But give the kid a break, it was raining and he had to share a tent with his stinky Dad. We love you Wes and Rach, thanks for trying. They ended up packing up their tent and driving home at midnight.

We did go on a sweet hike in the morning. I thought we were going to run into Gollum for a minute

And this is what we ate for breakfast...

I wish.

What an adventure.

Day Seis

This was a day of recouping. When I say recouping, I guess I mean to say, the men got to go golfing while the woman cleaned up after camping. Ha ha, I did get an excellent nap though so I can't complain. Since the day was pretty low key, I have no actual documentation of it. So I feel like this is the perfect opportunity to post all the random pictures I have of this trip. I have no rhyme or reason for posting these, just wanted to. And its my blog, so I get to do whatever I want to.

Babies!!!

Dominic and Brooklyn are 6 weeks apart. There is nothing like having little babies around. I swear they are medicinal (when they are fed, changed and not tired that is... oh and not couped up in a car for 16 hours, than they are medicinal)

Liam is in between the baby and toddler stage. He has an amazing vocabulary but also an amazing set of lungs. He demonstrated both through the week. We love him!

Avery is OBSESSED with her cousins. It was hard to leave all of them. And now that we are back, I'm cool again. I was off "Babies" duty for a whole week. Thanks cousins, it was a well needed break.

Avery also loves Auntie Ti ti. Especially when she bribes her with toys, snacks and treats!

Momo is the hardest worker. She loves her grandkids so much!

Uhhhhhh........ No words needed.

And that is all the random stuff. Hope you liked it.

Day sieta

We went to Lagoon! Fortunately my lovely Mother and Grandma watched Brooklyn. I did not want an infant at that place. They were nice enough to take her, even though she can't take a bottle for the life of her. So what did we do to nourish her you might be wondering? We bought a huge medicine syringe and sent her with that, breast milk and cereal. Weird yes, but hey it worked, OK!

Anyways, Lagoon was AMAZING!!! Seriously, I haven't had that much fun in a long time. I had absolutely no anxiety about anything, I was almost a kid again. I cannot believe how much fun it was to see Avery discover all the fun and thrills. That was the best part for me.

This girl is a stonewall. During her first big roller coaster, I sat next to her and watched her. There was no expression. She was just intense. Then when it was over, she looked at me and said, "Mama, can we do it again."

This is the face

This is a "I don't really know what to expect before the roller coaster" face

She got stuck for most of the bumper car experience. It was so funny!

Her cousins were nice enough to let her tag along

Travis also got in on the action

Before

After

Oops

We stopped and had a picnic lunch mid day

Goof balls

What a nice Dada... what a lucky girl...

I'm not going to lie, I had a ball going on the kid rides and adult rides.

I think the old rickety white roller coaster still has my gut. Still gets me after all of these years. Oh and have you tried the new roller coaster called "Wicked?" It sure got my goat. I think Trav lost a couple of brain cells, because he was acting really slow after that one. Don't worry, he is normal again.

Seriously, we had so much fun. It was worth every penny (even though we got comped... thanks Momo and Grandpa John, funnest day I've had in a LONG time).

Oh and Brooklyn survived without a boob.

We missed her, but she was in good hands