Road Trip

I remember when I was a single gal how much I loved ROAD TRIPS!!!! But it is a completely story with kids. On Thursday I took my first road trip with the kids without Mike. I don't know really how to describe it except challenging. I mean they were really good but when I would try to fall asleep Jersey would yell "MOM don't go to sleep" I was even driving.

My dad flew from to Chicago to Salt Lake so that he would be another body in the car with me. Megan also came. We took her car to Snowflake. Melanie my cousin was getting married. It's crazy to think that she is married. She and her husband are so cute together. It was nice to also see my Grandparents, aunts, uncles, Mom and sister Lauren. I haven't see her in like 1 1/2 years or more.

The first night we stayed up until like 2 am just talking and playing catch up. My kids wanted to play with the toys at my cousins house as soon as we got there. Thanks again Michelle for letting stay with you.

The next day I went to the Temple with my mom and dad because Melanie was going through. Afterwards we went out to eat to this Mexican food joint. It was good. After we ate we went to my Aunt Shelley's house and started helping with the wedding preparations. This is what my family does, when you think you are going a relaxing vacation you get to work in all reality. We had a great time painting the back drop(it was louver doors) for the wedding reception. We didn't paint them very good but that was the point. Then I bought some rub on stain and rubbed the doors down and it looked so cool. All those DYI shows have really paid off. While we were painting my cousin Nathan asked if I wanted to wear some old clothes of his so that I wouldn't get my nice clothes dirty. I put on the clothes and how sad is this I didn't need a belt for the pants. I have realized my true calling a wedding decorator or wedding planner. After we got that taken care of we glued rhinestones together so that we could hang them on the branches that were going to decorate the centerpieces. My cousin Julie and I got so high off the glue that everything strangely became funny. So we pulled another late night.

The day of Melanie's wedding I was so exhausted and I wasn't even the bride. It was a beautiful wedding. My sisters were in charge of taking care of my kids during the ceremony. They brought them up to the temple. The kids had never seen the Snowflake temple. I think it is really beautiful. Phoenix loved the water and kept going by it and he really wanted to get in. Grandma Laurie was right there to get him so he wasn't going in.

Between the wedding and the reception I decided that I wanted to get my hair done. At first it was just a style you know they curl my hair so that I don't have to. It ended turning out to be an all afternoon thing where I got my hair colored. I wanted to do something drastic something I had never done before. So I went Platinum and had a bright red put underneath. Mike has said that I always get my hair the same so well it's totally different. I don't think he likes it. It was nice to do something for me. After all it was my birthday weekend. Not that I was trying to out shine Melanie or anything I just wanted to do something that I would have done if I was a home.

I love Snowflake I love the hometown feel. It has been such a long time since the last time I was there. My kids loved it as well. Jersey loved playing with all the cousins. Julie and Lauren took the kids to see the horses and let them feed them. Oh how my kids were so excited. Then just running around big fields and playing in leaves. I asked Jersey if it was better then Disneyland. She said YES. I now know that all I need to do is go to Snowflake instead of Disneyland.