Our Vacation to SLC

We had a fun little vacation at the end of July. We spent the first few days in Cokeville visiting my parents. We had lots of fun playing with Angela's kids and Janet's kids and we watched the parade in Cokeville and then we went to Bear Lake where my sisters Penny, Amanda and Stephanie and families joined us as well. Always a good time. As you can see below, the girls had a great time and totally zonked on our way home from the lake. Penelope fell asleep still holding her Capri sun. That is tired. :)

After we left Cokeville we did some much needed shopping in Park City for Aaron and Penelope and then we checked into a hotel in SLC. That evening we went to Red Butte Gardens up by the U of Utah. They do a family night show every Monday, so we got to see some performers doing Brazillian Capeoira. It was really fun and the gardens were gorgeous. We really want to go back again, when it isn't bed time, and explore the gardens. We went to another garden the next day. We went to the children's garden at Thanksgiving point where they have a lot of fun things for the little ones. Mazes, water fountains you can play in, blocks, sand, little stone animals. . . and yes, that's right, a stage.

We also went to the dinosaur museum while we were at Thanksgiving Point and I think Penelope was truly terrified of this gigantic shark. She looks like she is ready to bolt. The next day we went to Hogle Zoo in the morning, this is Eleanor and I on the train. Then we went to the Discovery Gateway children's museum with Penny, Katy and Isabelle, which was fun.

While we were at the Gateway mall, the girls played in the fountains. Eleanor stayed by my side the whole time, but Penelope just attached herself to Isabelle and they were completely soaked by the end.
We also got to see all of Aaron's family at the family reunion in Heber. We had a great time but I didn't take a single picture. I can't believe it! Good thing we got some family pictures taken while we were there, thanks Melinda.