Staycation

It's funny how plans can change so quickly. At the beginning of the summer we had awesome plans to have a great summer and do lots of fun things since Jon graduated in April. Our plans included taking a vacation to Texas to see Nick and Stacey’s family and the new baby, taking some camping trips, visiting some water parks and maybe Lagoon and just having all out fun! Our plans didn't include a hospital stay, illnesses (Jon and Faye), and an accident which caused us to only have one vehicle for the remainder of the summer. Nope. Not our plans. It is making me question if making plans is really worth it?? I think when you make plans is when they change.

Well, since we were unable to do anything over the summer because Jon was SOOO sick, and due to all of this, we no longer had funds to do anything big. So, we decided to take a day and do a staycation. We woke up on Saturday morning and decided to head to Salt Lake. It was just a very sporadic, last minute decision. We talked about going to the zoo. But then we decided it would be too tiring for Jon and he can't handle the sun right now. So we did some brainstorming and decided to go to the gateway and take the girls to Discovery Gateway and Clark Planetarium. The girls said the only reason they would want to go to the zoo is to ride the train, but they really wanted to go to the children’s museum. So we thought, "why not take the train to Salt Lake?"

On our way down, I called my sister, Emily, who lives in Salt Lake to see what they were doing. She told me they were on their way to the farmers market. So we decided to take a trip there. The farmers market was awesome! There was so much stuff and so many people! It was kind of overwhelming, but really neat.

From there, we went to Discovery Gateway. We were planning on spending a few hours there, but once we got there the kids didn't want to leave. We spent a few hours then decided to go get lunch, so we went to Jason’s Deli. Then the girls wanted to go back to Discovery Gateway, so back we went and spent a few more hours there. They loved it. And it was nice that Jon could just sit and watch them and not overdo it. After Discovery Gateway we went and spent an hour at Clark Planetarium. The girls had so much fun! It was nice to have a day to spend as a family without having to worry about anything!!!

I posted a few of the pictures. I took a ton! I am not a professional photographer or anything like that, but enjoy!

The train ride down.

Kenzie loved playing in this area! She was having a "ball!"


  


Cute Abbie!

Kaylee was the mail lady, she went to deliver the mail.

Abbie was very excited to iron. She doesn't get that from me. I absolutely HATE to iron.

Kaylee loves being "the mom", she kept that apron/dress thing on most of the time we were there.

Kenzie also loved this swan. She kept wanting to sit on it.

She also liked the cars!

Kaylee was nice enough to let her sisters drive. She just wanted to chill in the backseat.

She jumped right on this horse. Do you notice she had to be "in costume" for everthing.

Kenzie loves horses. She couldn't wait to hop on this one.



Abbie was a cow riding a horse??





The Life Flight helicopter. They enjoyed this as well. They had to check everything out!



They were doing a news "special report" They loved being on TV!

They also had to put on their bird/butterfly play. They made it up as they went along.

They also got to do a science project while we were there.

They talked about and made tornadoes.

This is my favorite picture of all! I loved that they posed for me!

They are on mars.

Then they went over to the moon.

Daddy joined them on the moon.

Everytime I put Kenzie down, she took off running back to the moon and mars. That is all she wanted to do was play on them.

Back on mars.

The train ride home after a long day!