SLC Baby

This week Scott went to Texas. While he was gone I had to go decorate the church so luckily my regular babysitter is home schooled so she could come over while I went to the church for a few hours. I was on a stake decorating committee. The first meeting there were 8 people there, after that only four of us ever showed up. A few of us ended up doing all the work. Typical. I thought the decorations turned out cute though. 

Scott is now thinking about building a tree house in our backyard or building an outdoor playground. That would be sweet! We really need something back there. My kids never want to play outside unless we are playing in the front yard. I won't let them play in the front yard unless I'm out there with them. Hopefully they would play by themselves in the backyard if it were more entertaining.

On Thursday we headed down to Salt Lake for the weekend. Carole blessed her baby today and it was Scott's birthday yesterday. We woke up early and headed down and met the family at Hires for lunch. Yum! After that I went to the outlet malls in Park City with Carole and Amanda. That night we went over and had a visit with our good friends Phil and Micaela. We love seeing them!

On Friday Corbin wanted to go swimming. He has been wanting to go swimming for a long time now. Mandy bought the kids swimming suits since I forgot to pack them so we figured we had better go. Unfortunately the pool wasn't open for free swim until later than would have been more convenient for us. Corbin and Gabby were in their swimming suits all morning waiting to go. We ended up going at 1:30 and swam for 2 hours. Scott joined us for awhile but had to leave for a meeting. I'm glad he was there because Piper was not liking the swimming pool so I was happy he could take her home with him. Corbin and Gabby were loving it and were not ready to go. Finally after 2 hours and mildly trying to convince them to go I pulled the mommy card and said we were leaving in 10 minutes. Swimming for 2 hours is a long time. I was tired. That night we drove down to Lehi to have Scott's birthday dinner at Porter's Place. That place is yummy.

On Saturday we got up and went to Saturday's Waffles. It was so good! It's a little business that is run in the back of a trailer in a parking lot. They are only there on Saturdays. Their waffles are amazing! Scott wasn't too enthused to start his birthday doing two things he didn't like, waiting in line and waffles. Ha. Well much to his surprise they were so, so good! We will have to go again. Love! We came home and played around in the backyard. Scott's sister Nicole bought a house right next door to Jeff and Janet. We had tons of fun sneaking into their backyard, it is crazy big and has a huge hill and is wild like a jungle. Many adventures to be had for little kids in that yard. Papa took Corbin and Piper on trailer rides, they were loving it. Gabby is much too frightened for such activities. Birthday celebrations continued at Iron Man 3. It was good. Everyone liked it. A few of the men were off to buy new Sunday suits with Janet, (buy 1 get 3 free). After that it was time for Cannonball and burgers on the deck. Poor Janet had to plan, shop, and execute 2 big parties in a row. She deserves some royal treatment now. After burgers on the deck they set up and cooked things for the baby blessing. Scott and I snuck away and got caught up on Parks and Recreation.

Gordon did a great job blessing cute baby Greta. Afterwards there was a fabulous brunch at the Cannons. We slowly got packed up and came home. We couldn't decide when to come home and just decided to go. It's such a terrible drive. This drive home seemed to be particularly terrible! Piper is not our best little traveler. Corbin and Gabby do well. Those were our many Salt Lake adventures. It was a great trip as always.

Lastly I just have to say a few quotes from the kids. They are so funny. Piper came downstairs and she was wearing her bib and Corbin said "take Piper's bib off she's really cute without her bib." They took her bib off and he said, "see, look how cute she is." Funny. On the way home I had to stop at the rest stop (big surprise) Corbin joined me and he was taking his sweet time. I was trying to tell him he needed to hurry and he asked why so I explained it to him to which he replied, "well mom, people need to be patient." Ha! So funny. Don't you love it when kids throw things that you say to them and put it back on you? Hilarious! Gabby says cute and funny things all the time. She also has the cutest voice so it's so funny. Gabby told me there was a spider in her room. I went and checked it out and told her it was a box elder bug to which she replied, "oh, I hope it doesn't get on your pretty skirt." So random and funny. Then she was eating a white popsicle and said, "it's white like Aunt Mandy's dress (wedding dress), me: "oh", Gabby: "but I don't need a dress," me: "you don't" Gabby: "no because I'm little, (pause) like chicken little."

Scott is seeing if he could build a tree house up there. He also cut  down tons of branches.

Seriously Corbin, you get that dirty from coloring on the porch?

Decorations.

Saturday's Waffles!

Uncle Rustin and Piper at breakfast.

Waffle Time!

Corbin and Gabby are so funny they move around like crazy while they are sleeping. Corbin is sleeping at the bottom of the bed here. 

Gabby is sleeping horizontally with her head resting on the suitcase to prevent her from falling off.

Gabby fell asleep under the bed. After we got back from swimming I couldn't find  Gabby anywhere. I wasn't too alarmed, I didn't feel like she was in danger but I sure wanted to find her. Scott was the one that found her. What the heck?

Cannonball. Nice kick Scott!

Presents! Yes my husband is a nerd. Why he likes fakes swords, I don't know?

Carole, Gordon, and baby Greta.

Colie and Rustin's backyard. Adventures with Papa.