Finley Grandparents Visit

We spend the night at Grandpa and Grandma Finley's next house.  The kids loved the extra attention plus they took us swimming at their pool.  3 adults to 3 kids in the pool is a pretty awesome ratio.  We even let Kherington swim without her floaties on.

We walked through the field by their house to the new Spanish Fork temple and got there at the same time as some of their friends who were out for a stroll too so we had someone to take our picture.

It was fun to be able to visit and have the kids get to know them.

Roadtrip to Utah

Day 1
As we started the drive out of Dallas, we left behind flooding roads.  This is the intersection within a mile of our house.  I can't believe how much it rained.

We stopped at a rest area just 3 hours away and it was dry bright and sunny.  Plus it had a playground for the kids to get their wiggle out at.

We made it to our hotel.  We stood in line forever to get checked in, got chewed out by an old lady (another guest) while I was in line for letting Jonathan wander within eyesight.  We went for a swim before getting ready for bed.  I wish Jonathan was old enough for floaties.  Instead I just follow him around.  His favorite thing to do is go back and forth between the hot tub and pool.  That is definitely not my favorite thing to do.

The next morning around 7, we got a call from the front desk saying the people below us were complaining about all the noise we were making.  Kevin and Kherington were watching TV and Jonathan was puttering around.  If a 1 year old walking around upstairs is waking people up, then I think that is more a problem with the hotel than us.  I was pretty annoyed.

Day 2
We stopped at the Four Corners today.  It really is nothing special.  Maybe that's bad to say, but it is really in the middle of nowhere and is just a paved area with a plaque in the middle.  Nice that all our kids were young enough to be free to enter and it was nice to get out and run around.  The kids used the bathroom, but the potty was a well instead of a normal toilet.  That freaked Kevin out a little.

When we arrived at the hotel in Moab, I went to take Jonathan out of his carseat to find he had fists full of Kherington's hair.  I guess she is a really deep sleeper.  She got upset when I told her where the hair came from though.

We got checked in to the hotel and went for a swim, then I started not feeling well.  When you are the only adult on a road trip with 3 kids, it really isn't an option to get sick.  I took the kids to McDonalds for dinner and got myself a smoothie thinking maybe it would go down.  Nope.  At least the kids enjoyed it.

Day 3
After taking some medicine and getting some sleep I felt fine the next morning which was good because we were going to Arches National Park.  The kids LOVED it and I can't wait to go back again with Ryan.  They climbed all over the rocks (put holes in the butt of their pants, but what can you do) and enjoyed just running around.  Plus I took lots of pictures.

We explored the park until about 2 then drove the easy 3 hours up to my Finley grandparents in Spanish Fork.