Utah Week 4

What a great last week in Utah! At the beginning of the week we came to the realization that we hadn't accomplished everything we wanted to in the prior three weeks. Needless to say, our week was pretty crammed. One of my favorite things about going back to Utah is all the great restaurants. And since I still can't fully chew due to my wisdom teeth coming out, I didn't get to eat nearly as much as I wanted. But I think my waistline will thank me for that.

Monday we took Lynlee swimming again - this time with my family. It was super fun as always. Lynlee is really starting to love swimming. She kicks a whole bunch and loves splashing. She doesn't even care when she gets water on her face. It's so fun to watch her.

Lynlee loved splashing with Grandma!

Nikki and her kids. Me and my sad smile. My face
was still swollen from getting my teeth out.

 
For some reason this video is literally stuck to this picture. They move together and I don't know how to fix it. But the video is of Lynlee splashing. and the picture is from Wednesday when we gave Lynlee her very first pony tail!

Parker on the climbing wall next to the pool.
He got that high all by himself! We were
all so impressed.

Aspen playing with Lynlee after swimming.

Monday night I went to visit my dear friend Brittany!! who just had a little baby boy Liam!! and is SO dang cute. She was at her mom's with her sister Nikki and Nikki's daughter Chloe.

Lynlee and Chloe watching Princess and The Frog

Tuesday I spent all day with Nikki and her kids. We did some shopping and then took Lynlee to her very first movie - The Muppets! She did a lot better than I expected. When she first saw the screen her eyes got so huge!! But she actually really liked it. She was really hungry when we first got there, so that helped. Then she fell asleep for most of it but woke up for the last 20 minutes and just sat and watched it. She's such a good little girl!! And the movie, by the way, was hilarious. I went into it with zero expectations and loved it!! Later that night after I got back to my parents house Lynlee decided to go for a ride on our dog, Annie. Here's the video for that:

Wednesday I spent most of the day hanging out at my moms and then went shopping with my mom, and Julie so that my mom could spend her birthday money. I think Julie and I ended up spending more than my mom did. haha. Then we had the guys meet us with the kids at Jason's Deli for dinner. Yum!

This was on Tuesday when I went shopping
with Nikki. This hat is at Crazy 8's.

This was also on Tuesday. Right before going for a ride
on Annie. She LOVES that dog!

Thursday we went tubing at Gorgoza park with Ainslee and Nick. I had a freaking blast! I completely forgot how much fun it was. And the older you get, the better because there's more weight on the tube, which makes you go WAY faster and catch air on the bumps. SO fun. On a few of the runs we decided to go down all four of us. The next video is of that experience. Thursday night I went to dinner with my good friend Kylie! Love her :] We had so much fun, like we always do. And laughed pretty much the whole night, like we always do. We had dinner at Costa Vida and then dessert at Olive Garden. It was our own little tour of Layton. Haha. We're nuts, but we have fun ;]

Ains and I in the Warming Yurt after tubing

 Friday was the best day. We went swimming again. We had to go again because dad and Julie and her kids couldn't make it last time. They had the big slide open this time so Markham, me, Julie, my mom, and my dad all decided to go down it and let me tell you - it was SO much more fun than I even anticipated. It's deceivingly awesome.  You get going SO fast so by the end you just fly out the bottom and I got turned upside down every time. I loved it. And Julie's girls and Lynlee all had a blast again. Lynlee seriously loves swimming. Meadville has an indoor pool at their rec center and I think I'm going to start taking her. Good exercise for the both of us :] After swimming while we were getting changed, Hailey and Addyson decided to see if they could fit in the lockers. Guess what? They can.

Hailey in the locker. She's five. Addyson in the locker. She's three.

After swimming we decided to go eat at Cafe Rio, always a good choice. Then that night my mom, dad, Kristin, Jaron, Markham, and I all went to Pei Wei for dinner and then to see Jim Gaffigan (if I have to tell you he's a comedian, we're not friends). He's like my favorite. He's hilarious and clean (two most important things :] ). The show was amazing and Kristin and Jaron and my parents all loved it. Afterward we dropped Markham off at his friends house so he could hang out with them one last time and then went back to my parents and went to bed. The next morning we had to be up at 430 to make our flight. Saturday was a pretty miserable day. We flew from SLC to Denver, in which I expected a small plane. Then from Denver to Pitt I thought we'd get a movie, but it was an even smaller plane than the first one! It was so awful. But at least Lynlee was good on both flights. She's a pretty professional flier by now. Then after getting to Pitt we had to drive two hours to get home. I hate living so far from the airport. It's pretty awful.

So far I've had a pretty great week, though. I mean, really it's been nothing special, but it's just so nice to be back in my own house. With my own items. And my own bed. I even missed doing my own housework. (pathetic, I know). And we came home to a foot (at least) of snow.

Our porch. As you can see, it was still blizzarding and
we had to make a path to get up to the door. and my car,
along with a couple of my neighbors, is completely
buried.

Our back porch. That's our grill, and the thing in the back
is Markham's scooter. Completely buried.

Lynlee is now in 6-9 mo clothes. Which,
to me, makes her so big. This is an
outfit Markham's mom got her for
Christmas. And she loves standing
against things. The wall, the couch. She
can stay up for like 10 minutes. She's amazing.

She never falls asleep without one of us
rocking her, and being swaddled. Guess she
was too tired this time. I set her down to do
my hair and came back to pick her up and
she was out.

This is how she fell asleep in the car

Big girl model! Hand in her pocket and
everything!

Playing on daddy's belly

Where's Lynlee?!?

There she is!!

This corner in our living room had our rocking
chair in it, which we moved upstairs to put
the Christmas tree there and then when we
took the tree down I decided I liked the rocking
chair upstairs so we made it Lynlee's corner.
Now she's sleeping :] This pic was taken like two
seconds ago.

So that's pretty much it! Our vacation in Utah was amazing. We had a total blast, and I hope everyone else did too. Now this week is full of laundry, grocery shopping, baby shopping (diapers, formula, etc), buying a new wheel for a stroller because my dad broke it off (haha), and relaxing. It's amazing how you take a vacation to "get away" and "relax" but you come home more exhausted than when you left. But I'm glad to be sitting on my couch. And I'm sure Markham is glad that I'm sitting on our couch instead of going out spending all our money everyday shopping with my sisters :]