For President’s Day, we headed to Utah.
I’d say it was a great trip — but then I’d be lying!
We almost didn’t go after we realized that when I had made the tickets, I totally screwed everything up.
I never got tickets for two of our kids, I forgot to get a rental car, and after everything got worked out, Micah and Pippi had to come home a day early.
Then when we decided to go, it took us over 14 hours to get to Utah! We were too late for our rental car, and we were all wiped out beyond belief from the never-ending day of delays and “mechanical difficulties”.
One saving grace, was that Pippi found a friend during our 4 hour delay, and Pippi took over all of her toys and electronics!
Good thing that when the kids woke up — they were so happy to be at Bella’s house…the traveling from you-know-where was a distant memory.
The other bust of the trip, was that there was literally no snow. Utah has had a really dry winter, and it was almost spring-like conditions. That wasn’t such a huge deal — except that my kids were dying to ski. And we ultimately made the decision to not go skiing with such crappy conditions.
Good thing we knew that Deer Valley had some fresh snow.
We ended up driving up to the top of Deer Valley, and got some awesome, virgin snow.
It was actually really fun.
Between snow angels, sledding, snow surfing, jumps, and snowball fights, we were well entertained for a few hours.
Did I mention frozen Snickers?
Our nights were fun at Tristen’s house.
We also spent time at Seth’s house that was really fun too with their new sport’s court.
Minus the one on one basketball game where Micah challenged Christian (where Micah almost keeled over dead), the sport’s court was amazing. It was literally so fun to just hang out while the kids played. And they played for hours upon hours.
Then…miraculously, we got snow! And a lot of snow on our last night!
So instead of driving to the snow, the kids just went outside to make snowmen.
This is Rose and Navy’s snowman “Raspberry”.
Then Rose, Navy and Christian made a bunch of awesome mini snowmen!
Meanwhile, Scout braved the new feet of snow in his pants, a borrowed jacket and beanie for hours!
He was frozen solid after three hours of sledding, but he didn’t complain once.
He is the ultimate cold weather trooper.
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In the end, our trip turned out amazing. But it was off to a very SLOW start!
Good thing that Micah and I always say — our family can have fun doing anything together.
But unfortunately, we realized that doing 14 hours of unnecessary travel might have done us in!
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