Brought to You From Utah

We went to Salt Lake to visit Scott's family this weekend. We went for a few reasons. Of course our kids are always dying to go to Nana's house for on thing. I also love going to Utah in October, it is beautiful and Janet is the Halloween Queen and it's fun to see her house decorated. I also wanted to see what things I could borrow for Chase's wedding. So here we are. We came down early on Friday morning and made it just in perfect time to get lunch at Hires. After that the kids had fun picking apples and pumpkins with Nana and Papa. Scott was so happy to repeat his nerd fest with his brother and brother in laws. They played video games until 2:00 in the morning. I finally go to watch Janet's favorite scary movie that I have wanted to watch for years. It is black and white and it is good. It is called The Uninvited but it's nothing like the stupid modern movie with that title. I liked it a lot, it was scary and had a good ending. It wasn't too cheesy and it didn't get stupid. Scary movies often have a hard time not doing those things. Of course that night I was a little spooked and got further spooked when I heard a sound that I thought was Piper. I proceeded to open the basement door to be met by a screaming cat. Wow, that made my heart skip a beat.

We had a horrible incident when Piper fell down the entire flight of the Cannons very long staircase. I was standing right there and in a second I had to watch my baby roll down the stairs catching speed the whole time she fell. It was horrible and sad. I'm a little traumatized thinking about it. I think this has been the scariest thing I have had to experience as a parent thus far. She came out fairly well. Her nose was gushing blood and her upper lip was swollen. Thank goodness that was all. She cried for a long time and it was sad. She woke up only a little swollen. She has a little bruise on her upper nose. Thank goodness their stairs have nice plush carpet. It was all hard wood a few years ago. I'm glad she fell down with at least a little cushion.

On Saturday we went down to Thanksgiving point and checked out the Barnyard Boo. They had a lot of cute farm animals. We saw all the animals and went on a short hay ride. Gabby was in a mood the whole time but she improved dramatically after lunch. Piper had the best time out of all the kids I think. Afterwards we went to Porter's Place in Lehi. It was so good. I loved it! It is a restaurant named after Porter Rockwell and they have Mormon Malts along with other delicious things. The restaurant is very old timey and has excellent food.

Scott and I sneaked off at one point to check out Uncle Rick's basement to see if there were any craft projects for myself or for the wedding but I didn't find anything. We then went to Goodwill and I found some more great things for the reception. It was pretty low key last night, there were a few rounds of cards played. Carole and I went to Nordstroms. I stayed up late catching up on a few shows while Scott played some more games with Rustin and Clark and for a little while Corbin as well.

We are headed home tomorrow. Hopefully we will play some games tonight. I love playing Sunday night games with the Cannons.  

At Barnyard Boo

At Porter's Place, you can see Piper's upper lip is a little swollen.

I think it's cute when Gabby watches Corbin play games.

Corbin playing with the boys. He was so focused. It was cute. Good bonding time.

The hideaway bed sinks in the middle. Corbin and Gabby slept real close all night. Funny and cute.

After church Corbin was feeling a little clingy or something. We had some good cuddles and watched Princess and the Frog together.

This is an old picture from Nicole's phone. Look at that face!

Another old picture from Nicole's phone. Cute!