We're on our way home from Utah right now. I'm just going to copy and paste my blog post here. So there will be more details than you're probably interested in :). It has been a fun and exhausting trip. We left at 4:30 am on Wednesday. That night I got about 3 hours of sleep. Annika woke up at 2:45 am saying she was awake and ready to go to Utah! We finally got her up around 3:30 and she pranced around the house in excitement until we left. It was pretty cute. The kids did awesome in the car. We had Rebecca with us and she was a big help with keeping Annika entertained. We also took one of David's 9 year 2nd cousins who needed a ride home to salt lake. He was pretty quiet which I was grateful for because I've heard he can be kinda difficult. The only annoying thing was that his mom wanted us to meet her at some random exit and then she wanted to talk for awhile. The kids really wanted to get out. We were so close to herriman but those last 20 minutes were kinda rough for benson especially. We arrived on Wednesday evening to the house we all rented in herriman. It was a nice home. But we had a few complaints. It was very affordable compared to other rentals. So we probably got what we paid for.
On Thursday we took the kids to play at a splash pad and had a picnic lunch. Annika loved filling up her plastic cup in the fountains. She would go trough this giant metal ring when the water was barely trickling. And she and Brooklyn filled up plastic cups over and over again. I let benson crawl around on the splash pad for awhile. But the different fountains come on randomly and kept getting blasted with water. He sat there stunned and then started crying. He loved it when I held him and ran through the mist with him.
We stayed up until 1 a few nights. It was so fun to talk with all of the adults after kids were in bed. But we paid for it when our kids woke up ready to play early the next morning. We all needed naps after lunch. David and Annika went to a byu football scrimmage on Friday night with Glenn Nathan colson and Parker. I really wanted to go. But benson wasn't feeling good. It was a good decision to stay home with him. He had a serious melt down when he woke up from his nap. We went for a few walks, went running one morning with Alainna, and did Alainna's boot camp the first morning. A lot of us are still sore from that. David and I were in charge of Friday breakfast. We made 49er flapjacks and sausage. They were a hit! Adam and emilee got married in the timpanogos temple yesterday. It was a LONG day. The sealing was beautiful. When we came out, benson was crying. He had been crying the whole time. Not surprised. When we went in, Rebecca was the only adult with 17 kids. 4 of the kids are 10-12 years old so they were a good help. But there were four 3 year olds, four 1 year olds and a 5 month old. I think it was pretty crazy. Fortunately, I saw some of emilee's family in the waiting area and the adults watching their three grandchildren went to help our family. Thank goodness! Benson took a 15 minute nap on David's shoulder before pictures. All of the grand kids were pretty spent. It was hilarious to watch as the photographer tried to get a picture of all 17 grand kids with Adam and Emilee. There was a lot of crying. Those are going to be funny pictures. We went straight to byu for the luncheon and reception after. I loved driving in to Provo and all the nostalgia associated with byu. Such good memories! Ben and Kimi sycamore (David's roommate) met us at the cougar eat before the lunch. The lunch was painful because both kids were exhausted and Annika's cold was starting to take full force. The luncheon was in the sky room of the wilkinson center. It was beautiful. Heather and Nathan's kids sang families of god. And Anya sang a Russian folk song. Benson finally fell asleep at the end of the lunch on David's lap. He slept there for over an hour and into the reception, which followed the lunch. The food was amazing. We were very glad and anxious to leave and go back to our rental. Overall it was a wonderful trip with lots of fun memories. Last night David found Brookie and Annika sitting on a bed together watching Daniel tiger. They are becoming really good friends and I love watching them tougher. All of the little girls had matching pink lace dresses at the wedding. So darling! I'm grateful we could go but very anxious to be home and have some space and routine reestablished.
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