Utah Trip part 4

Tuesday was also a very fun day! We did a little more boondocks, family fun center in the morning to use up the rest of our card money, and then little shopping~ thank you grandma for watching the kids! Then Vicki watched the kids while everyone that could went to the Bountiful Temple! What a great experience. I know it was one that we all will remember. Then we came home and had a yummy dinner and visited with some family that came over, Chris' uncle and aunt. It was lots of fun to stay up and chat and visit way too late, but hey, we were on vacation! :)

Wednesday was nearing the end of our trip. We ate at Village Inn for breakfast and then headed to Provo to drop Joshua off at the MTC. It was a bitter sweet moment. Then we went to Nick and Emily's house to visit and relax before eatting at the Mayan. The Mayan is an old High School redone mexican style with a pool and divers and thunder/lightening. It's quite the atmosphere, but they redid their menu and the prices are a bit ridiculous!!! Anyway, then we headed to Natalie's apartment to see it, by this time the kids were asleep in the vehicle! We then stopped off at Andrea's new salon, which was amazing, before heading back to Grandma's house to finish packing and travel to the airport to fly home. Chris and I had a red-eye flight, which was to leave at 11:38 but actually took off after 3am! We landed at JFK at 9am, missing our connecting flight! We were tired to say the least! But, we took off about 5pm in JFK and landed safely in Richmond. We got our luggage and our van and were finally home a little after 10pm! What a day!!! Saying good bye was not easy, but we will visit again as soon as we can...good bye for now! This was a trip the kids will remember forever! A special thanks to MRS. TANNER for making this trip possible!!!

Utah Trip part 3

Monday we celebrated Ethan's 6th Birthday by doing what HE wanted to do. Ethan loves ice skating...and he's good at it. With only going one other time with the cousins here in MD, he really was excited to be able to do this in UTAH with family. It was quite a day! We shopped in the AM for a bit, then went ice skating. Then we headed to a park for a bit that Grandma wanted to take us to~ it was really neat! Everything was a giant castle! Then we went to Boondocks, the family fun haven for kids, where we rode go-karts, bumber boats with squirt guns(those were really fun), bowling, laser tag, arcades gallore!! It was such a fun place in there to say the least! Then we headed over to Johnny and Andrea's for a BBQ and cake...the kids were ready for bed when we got home!

Utah Trip part 2

Saturday....we went four wheeling at the 'B' in Bountiful...beautiful! We hit snow about 1/2 way up the mountain! We all had a blast...and everyone of the kids came but 1, so we really enjoyed eachother's company! Ethan and Alexis especially enjoyed their ride. Ethan and Uncle Johnny enjoyed going on little trips while the rest of us were finishing our picnic lunch. They even found a lawn mower and 'towed' it back! The things people drop off in the mountain! SHEESH!








Sunday was Ethan's 6th Birthday and Josh's fairwell. We went to Temple Square in the morning with the kids and Vicki and watched 'Music and the Spoken Word,' which was awesome! The grounds were beautiful! After taking some pics, we went to church for Josh's fairwell talk! He did a great job and the church was packed! Of course it was with all the family AND friends Josh has...and he was nervous not many would come! Silly boy! Although Hunter visited the MD's office because of fever and fussiness, which turned out to be a double ear infection (what we thought), the rest of the day was really nice spent with family and friends!!!

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Here are some family/friend pics!

UTAH TRIP part 1

So, I know I'm just now getting to this, but it's been really crazy busy since we've gotten home! Here are some of the fun things we got to do while in Utah for 8 days....
Wednesday....
Flying standby went great...we got on all our flights fine! We landed in SLC and was home at Grandma's and Grandpa's house by 6pm. We ate Chicken Enchilada's~yummy and pretty much got ready for bed! We were pretty pooped~ us AND the kids!!! Chris and I left our house at 5AM EST and our flight left at 10:45ish to JFK with a 3 hour layover, but all went great! Of course the kids loved flying and watching everything that was happening outside on the runway and loading docks!





Yes, it was Chris' idea to fly in our PJ's and yep, it was comfortable!!!

Thursday
We went to the Bountiful Temple in the morning. It was SO wonderful to be in the temple! Chris and I really enjoyed the scenery; the flowers and grounds were gorgeous! It was a beautiful sunny day and being up on the mountainside, we could see the snowcapped mountains all the way to Draper!! It was beautiful.
After a little bit of shopping, we came home and ate some lunch before heading out to our friends, the BENSON's for a visit! Oh how we miss our friends there. It was fantastic to visit with Jen! It was like old times!!!
We then took family pictures with the entire Jeppson family kids~ there are 14 of us now! SHEESH! :) I haven't gotten any pics yet to post, but when I do, I'll post them!

Friday....
Friday Chris wanted to take the kids up to Odgen, so we road the train, the Frontrunner. It's a double decker train. The kids loved it!!!






We took the kids to the OGDEN train museum...which was really fun! They had some interesting things for the kids to do and Ethan loved it! Alexis got a bit tired and wanted to be carried some, but everyone really enjoyed the visit there...and the train ride!