Trip to Utah

Friday morning, my mom and I flew into Salt Lake City for my cousin Jessica's wedding.

We got in to Salt Lake around 11:45, picked up our rental car and drove up to Layton, UT to check in to our hotel. We did have time to drive to my Uncle Randy's house to visit with them for a little while before getting ready for the wedding.

The wedding was at 4:00 at this cute little venue called The Castle. It was a very nice wedding and the reception was held right after. Christina (my cousin) and I utilized the photo booth multiple times and chatted most of the night.

Uncle Ricky, my mom & me

Me and Christina

Uncle Randy, Mom, Aunt Patty, Aunt Linda & Uncle Ricky

Jessica and Curtis

Aunt Sue, Jessica & Randy

Cousins

Pretty (and yummy) cake

Saturday, my mom and I got up bright and early, had a quick breakfast at the hotel and headed to Salt Lake City to look at their downtown.

We didn't see anything we wanted to do - so we decided to check out Park City for a little while. It was about 30 minutes away through the mountains - so beautiful.

The first thing we did was go to Olympic Park. We bought tickets to ride the ski lift to the top (and man was it high) and I talked my mom into riding the Alpine Slide down. FUN!! After all that, we had to refuel at Red Rock Junction before hitting up the outlet mall.

Scary High Ski Lift

Getting ready for the Alpine Slide

We went to Uncle Randy's house for dinner, visited with everyone for a couple hours and got back to the hotel around 8:30 and went to bed by 10:00 since we had to be at the airport bright and early for our 6:00 flight. Yikes!

It was a fun girls trip - thanks to Tom (and my dad) for watching the kiddos for me.

Stitches

On Monday afternoon, I got a call from the school letting me know that Tommy had an accident and it looked like he might need stitches.

Apparently, Tommy tripped over a chair that was turned over and the metal bottom of the chair split open his skin right by his left eyebrow.

Tom and I ran up to the school to get the kids, and it was decided that I would take Tommy to Acute Kids Care to have a doctor check him out to see if he needed stitches and Tom would take Grace home.

On the way to the doctor

Looks worse up close

Tommy acted fine during the normal stuff (weight check, temp check, etc.), but when the nurse came in to clean the wound so the doctor could take a look - boy he started crying. :(

The doctor came in right after that and said that is was split too much that the glue probably wouldn't work - so stitches it was.

The nurse numbed it up with gel and he had to wear a bandage around his head for about 30 minutes. We watched TV, read books and made faces to pass the time.

So sad....

When the came back into the room - the doctor had to give him some shots in the wound of Lidocaine and then our brave little man had to get 4 stitches. He didn't like any of that and cried the whole time! I felt so bad for him.

Since he was so brave, they gave him some Toy Story stickers and a sucker on the way out AND he got to go to Chick-Fil-A for dinner.

I don't even think he notices the stitches and he has been acting normal (for a little stinker) since we left the doctors office. :)

Grace Loves Her Baby

Grace giving her baby some love. :)

Circus

Last Saturday, we took the kids to the AAC for the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Tom and I hadn't been to the circus since we were little kids - so we were secretly excited about it too. ;)

The kids had a great time and even enjoyed sharing a $12 bag of cotton candy (geez). Tommy and Grace both loved the animals (elephants, tigers, horses and ponies).

Excited for the show to start

Pre-show festivities

The kids LOVED the elephants.

Tom enjoyed the show too.

This hat came with the $12 cotton candy.

One thing we we surprised about was how the circus focused more on the human performers than the animals.

It was a fun night and I'm glad we had time to go.

Pittsburgh in July

A few weeks ago (okay mid-July - I'm REALLY behind) we went to Pittsburgh for a long weekend.

Tommy and Grace had fun hanging out at the airports (we had connecting flights) and they actually did pretty good on the plane. We had Toy Story 3 - and they watched that the a majority of the time.

Hanging at DFW Airport

All Tommy talked about before and during the trip was hanging out in Grammy and Pap-pap's basement (where all the toys are). Or course that was the first thing he went to see when we got to their house at 11:00 at night.

Friday night, some of Tom's college friends and their kids came over to play/eat/drink. The kids all got along amazingly well. :)

Hanging in the basement

Sharon and Gwen

Grace was comfortable with the guys

And she didn't mind them flirting with her :)

Saturday afternoon, Tom and I headed downtown to tailgate and go to the Pirates game with all of Tom's college buddies. It was a lot of fun and afterwards, we even went to a bar for more drinking and dancing - it made me feel like I was in college again.

Tailgating

Our seats were very close to the field

Tom, Anthony & Sharon

Someone reliving their college days

We headed back to Tom's parents house Sunday morning, had a quick lunch and then loaded up to go to the airport.

It was a fun, eventful and fast trip.