Our Weekend Away

Can you tell how happy he is???
After we took Andrew to the MTC we took a few days for a much needed little family getaway. We started off by taking everyone to Chuck E. Cheese. Tyler has wanted to go since he was 2, and reminds us at least everyweek about how much he loves Chuck E. Cheese and needs to eat there even though he has only seen it on TV. So we kept it a surprise and didn't tell him until we pulled into the parking lot. He was so excited he couldn't sit still. All of Eli's family came with us and I don't know who had more fun, Tyler and Zach or Eli and his brothers. We were there for over 3 hours. It was so much fun. All of us played the games and the boys had a serious battle with the basketball hoop shoot. It got pretty intense but no matter how much time or money Spencer spent, he still came up one point shy of Jared's record. Oh well, we ended up getting more than enough tickets to get our kids some pretty fun prizes to keep them entertained in the car.


Once dinner was over we headed to Park City for some relaxation and family time. It was so nice just to spend time with each other and the boys. We always have so much going on it seems like and it was nice to have no plans, and nothing to do. We stayed at a fun hotel at the Canyons and did a little shopping and a lot of swimming. The kids loved it and were so good the whole time. We took the kids to Hogle Zoo on Friday and they had a blast. There were so many animals and we were there while they were feeding a lot of them so we got to see quite a bit. Zach's favorites were all the monkeys. He would get so excited when they would start to swing and jump around in the trees. Tyler said he liked the Tiger the best, but it was sleeping when we saw it, and I'm pretty sure he spent the most time in the lizard room because there was one little lizard that would chase him and follow his finger back and forth in his tank. He thought it was so cool! Once we were done with the zoo we headed Eli's cousins to hang out for a little while. They have kids our age and they love when they get to see each other. We didn't do too much, but it was nice to relax. Once the weekend was over we were ready to get home and back to real life.