The kids took turns riding with him. Nick got to ride with him from Cortez to Mapleton (5 hours) and he was happy the whole time. He loved being with Dad, being high up and being in the truck (he loves it!).
It took us 11 hours to drive from our house to Vaughn and Marianne's. We had to stop more often than we usually do to get gas and to check the stuff in the back.
Once we got to Vaughn and Marianne's house we ate dinner and went to the store to buy stuff to make red hot jello. I made the bottom two jello layers before bed and the top layer the next morning.
Thanksgiving morning I made four cookie sheets full of cloud light crescent rolls. I was distracted or something because I forgot to put salt in one (or maybe two) of the batches. I might have made a few too many rolls.
While we were getting ready to head to Coalville for Thanksgiving dinner, Ty ran upstairs and said that there was water downstairs in the hall. It turns out that the upstairs toilet had a problem with not shutting off, Ty had plugged it and Kate had flushed it before she got in the shower and it overflowed while we was in the shower. Water was gushing onto the floor, through the floor/downstairs ceiling and all over the basement. Vaughn and Dave spent the next couple of hours sucking water up out of the carpet.
We drove the truck to Mike's house and we'll leave it there until we have a house to park it at in Washington.
We had Thanksgiving dinner with Mike's family, Vaughn and Marianne, and Melinda's family. It was really yummy and the kids loved playing with their cousins.
Jack played basketball in the living room almost nonstop with whoever would play with him.
Ty bopped around and played with Jace and Ben off and on. The boys spent lots of time playing differnet computer games.
Kate and Avery were inseperable and holed up in Avery's room doing girl stuff most of the time.
Nick found a chocolate pie on the table and helped himself with a few finger-fulls. I gave him some on a plate and he was very happy!
Nick spent plenty of time like this...
After dinner and pie we sat around and talked. We played PIT for a while. Melinda's family went home, but the rest of us spent the night at Mike's house.
Friday we hung out while the kids played and played. Maggie was sick, so we didn't get to see her.
We headed back to Mapleton and got stuff ready for dinner. My parents and Emmalee were spending the week at theri basement apartment in Springville (it's really pretty close to Dave's parent's house). They came over for dinner (BBQ hamburgers) and fresh out of the oven peanut butter cookies. We played PIT together and it was really fun.
Avery, Jace and Austin came back with us, so the kids had a big sleepover on the family room floor.
Saturday morning we all went ice skating at Seven Peaks. Melinda and family came too. I got to ice skate for the first time in years. Marianne and Vaughn kept an eye on Nick (who wasn't very happy about Dave and I leaving him to skate). I didn't do as bad as I thought I would. I didn't ever fall, but the kids and Dave are very good skaters and I definitely looked like a beginner.
We skated until about 3:00 and then we went to Chuck-a-rama for lunch. One day while we were in UT, Jack asked me why we never have lunch in UT. And he's right...we didn't really have a normal lunch any of the days we were there.
After Chuck-a-rama we went downtown Salt Lake to Temple Square and met Lissa and her family there. It was fun to see them, especially since it's been two years since I saw Lissa last and even longer since I saw her kids. The kids were together this summer though. It was crazy busy because it was a pretty warm night, so everyone came to see the lights. We tried to talk as we wound through people, but we ended up leaving after a while. Nick screamed for a long time and his diaper had leaked onto my jacket. Gross!
Dave started to not feel very well at Temple Square and was sick all night and wiped out on Sunday while we drove home. Vaughn gave him a blessing before we started driving and luckily we didn't have to stop extra times because he was sick. We made it home in 9.5 hours and only stopped once in Cortez. I drove the whole way and the kids were pretty well behaved since Dave sat in the back with them half of the time.
We came home to our boxed up house and I tried to organize things so we'd be ready for the movers to come load our stuff into the moving truck the next morning.
Wish I would have taken more pictures of everyone and everything because it was a fun trip.
We drove the truck to Mike's house and we'll leave it there until we have a house to park it at in Washington.
We had Thanksgiving dinner with Mike's family, Vaughn and Marianne, and Melinda's family. It was really yummy and the kids loved playing with their cousins.
Jack played basketball in the living room almost nonstop with whoever would play with him.
Kate and Avery were inseperable and holed up in Avery's room doing girl stuff most of the time.
Nick found a chocolate pie on the table and helped himself with a few finger-fulls. I gave him some on a plate and he was very happy!
Nick spent plenty of time like this...
After dinner and pie we sat around and talked. We played PIT for a while. Melinda's family went home, but the rest of us spent the night at Mike's house.
Friday we hung out while the kids played and played. Maggie was sick, so we didn't get to see her.
We headed back to Mapleton and got stuff ready for dinner. My parents and Emmalee were spending the week at theri basement apartment in Springville (it's really pretty close to Dave's parent's house). They came over for dinner (BBQ hamburgers) and fresh out of the oven peanut butter cookies. We played PIT together and it was really fun.
Avery, Jace and Austin came back with us, so the kids had a big sleepover on the family room floor.
Saturday morning we all went ice skating at Seven Peaks. Melinda and family came too. I got to ice skate for the first time in years. Marianne and Vaughn kept an eye on Nick (who wasn't very happy about Dave and I leaving him to skate). I didn't do as bad as I thought I would. I didn't ever fall, but the kids and Dave are very good skaters and I definitely looked like a beginner.
We skated until about 3:00 and then we went to Chuck-a-rama for lunch. One day while we were in UT, Jack asked me why we never have lunch in UT. And he's right...we didn't really have a normal lunch any of the days we were there.
After Chuck-a-rama we went downtown Salt Lake to Temple Square and met Lissa and her family there. It was fun to see them, especially since it's been two years since I saw Lissa last and even longer since I saw her kids. The kids were together this summer though. It was crazy busy because it was a pretty warm night, so everyone came to see the lights. We tried to talk as we wound through people, but we ended up leaving after a while. Nick screamed for a long time and his diaper had leaked onto my jacket. Gross!
Dave started to not feel very well at Temple Square and was sick all night and wiped out on Sunday while we drove home. Vaughn gave him a blessing before we started driving and luckily we didn't have to stop extra times because he was sick. We made it home in 9.5 hours and only stopped once in Cortez. I drove the whole way and the kids were pretty well behaved since Dave sat in the back with them half of the time.
We came home to our boxed up house and I tried to organize things so we'd be ready for the movers to come load our stuff into the moving truck the next morning.
Wish I would have taken more pictures of everyone and everything because it was a fun trip.
