Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

So this week has flown by super fast! I can't believe our vacation is almost over! Today happens to be our five year anniversary (My sister and her husband's sixth anniversary as well- so happy anniversary Carissa and Braxton)! I couldn't have asked for a better gift than to have Brian stay at home and play with us all week long. We just love his company and can't get enough! Although we'll celebrate in style tonight, here is an update of what we have been up to all week:


Tuesday we went to the museum of ancient life (dinosaur exhibit). Thanksgiving Point is doing a promo in August called $2 Tuesdays. The regularly high priced tickets are dramatically reduced to only $2! We thought this would be a great idea....so did everyone else in Utah! Take a look at the line we waited in to get into the museum! (Brian is in the blue shirt by the stroller with our kids on the corner of the building). The line literally wrapped around the building! It went considerably fast, but you can imagine that all those people who were waiting outside, were now inside the venue! It was completely crowded and hard to move around with the stroller inside without bumping into someone, and the kids had very little patience. Although it was a cool idea and fun to do, I'm glad we didn't pay more than 2 bucks! Since we waited in line longer than we had expected, the kids were hungry half-way through the exhibit and so we rushed the second half just so we could get them some lunch and home for naps! We ended up eating a picnic out by the car under some shade trees and headed home.

That afternoon we visited the pool and wore the kids out for bed time. Jackson is becoming quite a good little swimmer and is very daring. He's been experimenting how long he can hold hes breath under water which makes me nervous. But he'll swim to the bottom of the wading pool area and look up and wave at us. He's just so cute! Later, Brian and I went out on date and caught a movie (left the kids with a babysitter of course)!




Wednesday, Brian hiked with some of his buddies up Timpanogos to find a time capsule they buried 14 years ago. Surprisingly (to me) they found it and enjoyed a trip down memory lane, added a few more items and re-buried it to dig up again in another 10 years or so. That afternoon we went back to the pool and had some friends over for a BBQ.






Thursday, we went to library story time and let Jackson pick out some books to bring home. The we headed to the park and had a picnic lunch and played on the playground. Afterwards, we just hung around the house and had a low-key afternoon to recoup from all of our running around.

Today, we are headed to the aquarium and later we'll celebrate our anniversary..so we'll keep you posted!