Utah trip

So Kari and I took what will most likely be the last prefamily vacation. I am so looking forward to toting around several kiddos with us. We will most likely do much of the same stuff. We started off by spending several days in St. George. We stayed with Kari's brother. We just chilled and had a bunch of fun. We went to their community center, awesome. They have a water park there that in the summer is part inside and part outside, and in the winter they have these big garage doors that rolled closed so the park is opened all year round. We also went to the Washington County fair. We went into the petting zoo sponsored by FFA. My niece got to ride the pony a couple of times. We took he to the rides and she had fun. Kirk and I went on the zipper, his first time, we giggled like school girls and had so much fun.

On Sunday we changed locations from St. George to Mapleton. On the way up Kari and I noticed that we were getting sick, by Monday we had full on chest colds. I was a little worse than her. That really jacked up our plans. We got to see some friends, brothers and sisters. Great to see the Mechams, they cut their camping trip short to see us. Theresa stayed up late to catch us, she hooked us up with some fruit, Melanie waited until the last minute to go to a doctors appointment to hang with us for a few extra minutes. On Monday, Tuesday, and part of Wednesday we just bummed around taking it easy. Wednesday night there was no doubt I was going riding after missing out on Mondays riding. I love riding the canyons in Utah. We went to the Hogle zoo on Thursday with Natalie and the kids. I think it was a lot of fun even though we got rained out. I was just really bumbed because they cancelled the bird show due to weather, and we missed the train ride because it was raining, man I really wanted to ride through the bison exhibit. SUCK!!!!!! Oh well some relaxing time, 2 days of riding, seeing some animals, which included ones in cages and at homes, hehehehee, I love hanging with our families. Thanks for the accommodations.






Oh yea, on one of our chill days we happened into a kitchen store and we purchased our own ebel skiver pan. The picture below. these are yummy little balls that are some where between a pancake, angle food cake, and a doughnut. I filled some with cooked apple pieces and some with Nutella. My sister in law said it was awesome to have chocolate filled yummyness for breakfast. Later she pointed out that the powder sugar shaker I was using was actually flour, man did I fill stupid. So she retrieved the powder sugar from the pantry and I just dumped a bunch on to fix the problem. Great to see you all.