In between excursions, most of our time in Utah was spent soaking up the sun in the backyard. I call it “savoring a slow summer.”
The swing and zipline were hours of entertainment.
Amelia looking worried.
Before Jake refashioned the zipline into a real one, he tried using the swing. Most boring zipline ever.
Meredith received no less than 14 hours a day of cuddling.
More cuddles from Grandpa.
Surprised by life!
S and A loved exploring the closets packed with our childhood toys upstairs.
Hanging out in the playroom.
Lots of fun toys for Meredith on her throne.
Eating outside.
More slip n slide and sand pit.
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What a cute spider in her web!
Woo hoo!!
The girls had one last hoorah in the backyard before eating lunch and taking off to go home. We were sad to say goodbye, and were not looking forward to the long trip back.
Meredith, in particular, had PTSD from being in the car twelve hours on the trip out to Utah, and was not happy about being in her car seat again!
We wiled away the time with the road trip scavenger hunt, a movie, singing and about a million two-minute audiobooks (The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Peter Rabbit on audiobook were very well narrated!)
We broke up the trip back by stopping at Jake’s brother’s vacation home in St. George where we played in the club pool and ate dinner.
After wearing them out the pool, the girls donned their pajamas and after an hour or so of protest (“I WANT TO SLEEP IN MY OWN BED PLEASE!!”) all three girls conked out at 8 p.m. for the rest of the five hours home.
When the twins woke up in their own beds the next morning, their first requests were, “Can we go back to Utah again today?”
Lots of love,
