Utah Trip!

I go back to work soon so we are trying to finish up with summer things. Piper finished sewing her apron and we went and played in the river. We also took a trip down to Utah. We drove down on Thursday and headed straight for the Classic Fun Center to celebrate Rustin's 50th birthday. We roller bladed, skated, scooted, laser tagged, and arcade gamed. We had some pizza and ice cream followed by birthday spaghetti and cake at Nana's house. Scott and I snuck away to meet up with his high school buddies. We had a fun visit with them until way too late in the morning. We went to Richard's new house first. He very recently moved back to Utah after being in Vegas for many years. After that we went a mile down the road to Royce's house to sit in his hot tub. On Friday Nana helped the kids paint bird houses and later that day they went swimming at Clark and Sarah's very cold pool. Ryan told me it was almost as cold as the river...COLD! Noel and I snuck away and got pedi's and had lunch. That night we went and had dinner at Carole's fun house and played games and the kids spent the night. On Saturday Scott and I drove with Nicole and Rustin up Cottonwood Canyon to check out his mom's mountain home up there. It is still a work in progress but it is a BEAUTIFUL house in a beautiful location. That afternoon we went swimming in the neighbor's perfect temperature pool. That night Nana had an intricate Harry Potter themed dinner with games. The dinner menu was Shepard's pie with wand breadsticks. We got sorted into houses and had a series of activities from fortune readings, to pin the beak on buck beak. It was very clever and very well done. My kids need to up their game on their Harry Potter knowledge though. Today we had a delicious breakfast and slowly got on the road (we had to turn around and go back and pick up my forgotten purse...woops)! This is my last week before I go back to work. We are going to try to get our back to school shopping done and sneak to the pool. 

Piper is very cautious but she does good work!

Cute Pipes!

River time.

After swimming watermelon time.

Piper is OBSESSED with mermaids and she finally got her own mermaid tail. She is pretty good at swimming with it. 

Ryan chopped up the tomatoes for dinner the other night.

Rollerblading. 

Getting instructions for laser tag. 

Pedi's!

He's so proud.

Pool games. (Such a nice pool, just down the hill from nana and papa!)

Thimble game.

Ryan loves dogs.

Cutest!

Fortune reading time.

Cute chipmunk spotted up Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Ryan likes to eat the rind. Mmmm kay?

Dog love.

We played spoons. It was Corbin and Gabby's first time. They loved it!

Hansen's have swings in their basement...what!

Richard's new office.