Our Trip to Utah

We just returned from a week long adventure in Utah! We LOVE to go to Utah and HATE coming back to Vegas after our trips. It makes us all really homesick when we leave Utah...one day we won't have to leave (hopefully)!! My sisters and I have been planning this trip for a couple months so it was lots of fun to finally be together. The kids all had so much fun with each other. We had the occasional fights but they played really good together. We had a really busy week but it was lots of fun. Here are a couple highlights from our trip:

Thursday we went to the local children's museum. It was CRAZY!! It was really crowded and Sammy and Andrea were a little cranky. They really liked doing the different things at the museum but it was really stressful for me because they kept crying!!

This is the life-size horse they had at the museum. I think this is the only kind of horse my kids will ever get on!!

All the kids loved the blocks!!

Andrea, Sammy, and Isaac playing a big xylophone.

The highlight of the week happened on Monday when my mom took all eight grandkids to Build-a-Bear. They LOVED it!! It was so much fun to watch them all pick out animals and clothes. Sammy and McKinley picked a pink unicorn (Michelle and I tried to talk them out of it but they both really loved the unicorn), Andrea got a spotted leopard (she thinks it is a cat), Josh got a monkey, Isaac got a panda, Joey got a dog, and Denali and Anna got lambs. The kids have all played with their animals all week so it was good for them to have similar toys they could play with together! I had my camera with me the whole time but totally spaced getting any pictures until we left!!

Outside Build-a-Bear with the animals!

Here is a picture of all eight grandkids. In the last year we have gone from 5 to 8!! It is fun to have kids all the same ages. They love to play together. We really wished that we lived closer so we could play more. Andrea loved being with Grandpa this trip! She is excited to go back in July and stay at his house so we can actually see him this time. We stayed at my sister Heather's house and the girls loved being with Isaac and Joey. It was fun to spend a little more time with Heather and her kids this time.

I was a little worried during this trip about my weight loss. I didn't exercise the whole week we were gone because I had a hard time getting all three kids to bed every night and was exhausted the whole time. I weighed myself when we got home and it looks like I stayed about the same. I think this is amazing considering I ate a pound of licorice on the way home to try to stay awake!! I am really looking forward to a good night's rest in my own bed tonight!

I must say that I have a love-hate relationship with Utah. I love going and hate leaving! I love being able to spend time with my sisters and parents and I love trying to catch up with my friends up there. I never feel like I have enough time. I miss my parents so much that I want to spend all my time with them. I really hope and pray that we can figure things out and are able to move to Utah in the next year or two. I love my friends here but I am ready to move back home to Utah.