We spent Monday and Tuesday at my parents house in North Salt Lake. I went out for my run on Monday and it was raining on me, so I decided to grab a picture. Yup, that was the rainy weather. It started raining again a little later in the morning, though this time there was at least a rain cloud above us in the sky. The rain was pretty minimal both times, but it was still pretty bizarre due to the mostly blue skies and sunlight.
My sister went to the store to get some groceries, and also grabbed a watermelon for everyone to enjoy. She grabbed the biggest one she could find, and the lady at the register had to get a special scale to weigh it because it was so heavy. It was ~41 pounds, or 1 Brooke. There was a LOT of watermelon to eat.
One day I was looking for Brooke and Winry in the basement. They had gone down to play with their cousins, but I couldn't see them. Amelia told me they were in William's house, and led me there. She was out getting flashlights for everyone. William's house was under the stairs, behind where my parents hang their sleeping bags! What a silly place to play!!
Tyson and Tina's family all came out Tuesday, and the girls were so happy to see Megan on Wednesday morning. She read them stories all morning! Also, Maren shared a room with Winry while we were at my parents house. Winry really loved having a roommate, and when Winry would wake up in the morning she'd lay in her pack'n'play and wait until Maren got up, and then she'd stand up and come down with Maren! Winry would just lay there silent, not waking Maren, waiting until she got up for the day! What an amazing roommate! Tuesday night, Maren stayed with the rest of her family, and Wednesday morning I went to check on Winry and she was awake waiting in her pack'n'play to hear a noise to know she could get up. She was disappointed, to say the least, when she saw I was there to get her up! She LOVED sharing her room with Maren.
On Wednesday we headed to Driggs, Idaho to the place we were staying. We helped unload all the food, and the girls even helped carry things in! Winry would set things over the door way, and then step in the house and pick things back up to carry to the kitchen. Here she is with a great big chip box!
At night we'd all do an activity together. The first night we all played Bingo. Our girls were already asleep, but we played it with them on subsequent days.
Niki was our bingo master, with a tombola and all!
Here are the girls asleep in our room. Winry's pack'n'play was in the closet, and Brooke's bed was on the couch. I decided to put pillows on the floor in case she fell off, and she fell off more nights than not. I think there was only one night she didn't fall off. Also, this was the girls first time sharing a room, and they did great!
On Thursday we took a short ~25 minute drive to a ski resort for lunch and a hike. The girls were iffy on the hiking part, but in the end we all had a great time. Here are the girls at the turn around.
That night, we played pictionary for our group activity. Brooke got to stay up for the first couple turns before heading to bed. She even got a turn and drew both Blue Jelly, and a flamingo!
On Friday we headed with everyone to Teton National Park and headed for String Lake. We met up with everyone as they finished the hike to Taggart Lake.We got a few pictures at the trail head, and Monica snapped a picture of my dad and me walking Winry back over to the lunch table. We had lunch at the trail head, and then all headed for String lake, but ended up at Jenny lake.
While trying to get to String lake, we ended up parking at an over look. There wasn't good water access, but it was a good picture spot. Here we all are together!
And here's Winry looking over my shoulder! I sure got to carry her a lot!
We were able to find parking in the Jenny Lake parking lot, and headed to the water. Here's a picture of the whole lake! Hopefully if you click on it it'll stop looking so small... no promises though.
The girls got their swimsuits on and headed in the water. Here's Brooke up on a rock a little ways out in the water.
And here's Winry getting her toes wet. Don't worry, Winry doesn't need to head in deep to get very wet. Before she was in her swimsuit she was just chilling in the shallows, but she'd squat down to get rocks, etc. and dipped her bum/regular diaper in the lake. It got VERY full, and so it was definitely time to change her. While there I joined the company of people who were skipping rocks. I got 7 skips in the video! I think that was the most I got, so it was a good time for Monica to film!
Someone (Oriah or Niki I believe) went to the gift store and came back with popsicles for everyone. They were the push up kind, and while very yummy, they made us quite sticky. We rinsed off in the lake, so... hopefully the fish appreciate that.
The girls enjoyed playing with cousins basically all the time! I will say, I do think this took it's toll on Winry, as she spent about 6 hours today in her crib. She woke up at 7, and then at 9 asked to go take a nap. She played for about an hour and a half and then eventually did take around a 3 hour nap, but then woke up and wanted to keep playing in her crib by herself! Introverted? Seems like it :). I'm glad she got a chance to recharge, and I'm also glad she was good player and sharer with her cousins over the past week.
On the way home, we ran into some crazy traffic. I pulled up google maps (we had directions on Monica's phone, but it was having sim card issues and couldn't use cell data) and got a new route around the traffic that would save us a half hour. Why wasn't everyone going this way? Well, because it went over a one lane bridge to a dirt road!... It was a good adventure, and I'm glad we saved the half hour! We stopped at Rock Springs for gas and lunch, and of course did some somersaults. We continued on to Fort Collins where we stopped at Chick-fil-a for dinner, and I moved into the back to help the kids eat their dinners. It was a little cramped, but at least I was able to see the screen and we watched Phineas and Ferb the rest of the way home.
We made it home safely, but very tired, and Jelly was VERY excited to see us. She has been very snugly and climbs into a lap much more often than she used to. She definitely missed us while we were gone, and we missed her too! We had a wonderful trip, and it was great to get to see everyone! Have a wonderful week ahead!
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