Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

Went with some of of my family to walk through the new temple here in Utah. It was a first time experience for my children and was fun to watch their faces as they walked through it and to see the beautiful things inside. They would make comments about how many stairs they had to walk up and down and the lights up above and of course the highlight was the celestial room and they just kept looking up and said that it was soo tall. I love to hear children's versions of what they see through their eyes.

4th of July

Paetan spent the day with Leslie and Conner at Lagoon while Trent, Tyler, Reeghan, Easton and I drove out to the Tooele parade. What a great memory I have from this parade and it really hasn't changed much since I left and the funny thing was, was that it had a Wal-Mart diesel truck in the parade. Wal-Mart has done really well out their in Tooele! My parents met up with us and then headed down to David and Tera's house to see baby Ella. We kept Easton with my parents and Trent, Tyler, Reeghan and I drove to Provo. We stopped first at the street fair they were having and then watched dancing performances of all types, Mexican to Polynesian. We then went to the Stadium of Fire to see Glenn Beck and The Jonas Brothers perform in concert along with SheDaisy. We had an awesome time and Reeghan really enjoyed it being her first concert.

Temple Square

The girls, Tyler and I took the Trax train over to Temple Square and went on some tours today. I grew up in this area and I feel like I missed out on alot of things I didn't get a chance to do. I remember going to the Beehive house once when I was a kid but I don't remember it very well. So that was our first stop and we had a great tour and the girls did wonderfully and loved looking at all the old artifacts and items of that time period.

Next we stopped off by the Lion House Resturant and they were serving shaved ice/ice cream in commemoration of the 4th of July coming up. We each got a pina colada, cherry and a blueberry flavor. Such a cute and tasty treat! It was the best shaved ice I had ever had.

Then we headed over to the Church Office Building and went up to the top floor and got some great shots of the city. Salt Lake City is beautiful in the summer time but its been really HOT!

Finally our last stop was to the south visitors center where they have all the information about the SLC Temple and then also about the importance of families. The girls loved to watch the kid segments of the videos.

Utah Symphony Concert

I want to immerse the girls into more music opportunities and this one I came across on a great blog I found here from a girl that tells you about Utah deals. The Utah Symphony will be giving 4 free summer concerts throughout SLC to the public. We went to West Valley to watch them play and they did a Star Wars themed musical arrangements for the concert. I don't know much about Star Wars but I am familiar with the music of the show so it was quite entertaining.

Case of a little Swine Flu

I am hoping that with all that has been going on that this will be the last thing. Trent had been achy all day and even at my reunion and then as we were cleaning up I started to feel the beginnings of it. During the night Trent was a hot toaster he was burning up and when I woke up I was! You got to be kidding! I felt awful and was beginning to start to think about my children and who I would farm them out to today.

Poor Trent didn't even get his Father's Day breakfast in bed! I did however buy him the movie "Forever Strong" and a snickers carmel apple. The girls drew him a picture too. Trent then started to feel a little better and told me that he would take the children to church. Leslie had to speak in her ward so we drove out to her house and Easton and I stayed. During the opening prayer Conner (Leslie's son) had a seizure so they up and left and Leslie got out of her talk.

What an eventful day for all of us. I am ready to start this new week renewed and rejuventated because we have Trent's family reunion this week in ST George. Wish me luck!

Well Trent and I got a nasty dose of what we believe was Swine Flu and it just so happened to be the morning we left to drive down to St George area for Trent's family reunion. We were going to spend a day or two with Klint and Rachael first then head up to Zion National Park to meet up with them for the weekend.

Once we got to Rachael's we were beat and thank goodness for her because we stayed at her home for 3 days and Trent and I just layed around the whole time! It was awful! Rachael had to be the mother of my children as well as take care of us. I've never been so yucky feeling ever I would have given birth to a child over this for a constant 3 days straight. The only way I would feel a little better was to go outside and lay on a blanket in the sun. It was truly just horrible!

Ten Year High School Reunion

The day has finally arrived to "show" my high school classmates how beautiful I am!!! HAHA We started planning this event full force back in April over conference calls. I was a senior class officer so I along with 4 others were in charge of putting it together. Luckily two were in Utah, two in California and one in Georgia.

Thank goodness for facebook and blogging. We were able to find people alot easier and get the word out. We did a family swim party out at the Deseret Peak Complex out in Tooele where we had our graduation services. The turn out was small but it was fun to see people with their kids and spouses.

Saturday evening was quite unusual but at the same time very fun! We had our reunion at the Salt Lake Hardware Building which was incredible. The architecture was beautiful and the layout was perfect for our needs. We had dinner, dancing and Leah, Krizia and I were the only ones who sang a karoke song because I made them. Then we watched our video yearbook.

I had great conversations with people and I was actually able to give away all my decorations to one classmate who is getting married next month so it was awesome. I really didn't want to talk them all home.

Utah Hogle Zoo

We met up with Kendall and Kass Madsen from our ward back home. They moved back to Utah in December so it was nice to see them again. We were there for only 3 hours and it was very relaxing besides losing 2 of their children!

I have to say that the bird show that we watched was the best animal show I had ever seen! My brother and sister-in-law Tim and Kaylee who are 9 and 11 years old would have enjoyed seeing it. They are bird lovers! These birds were incredible and would swoop down from out of cages hundreds of feet in the air and sail right across our heads! We saw all types of birds from parrots to chickens to 3 types of eagles and others.

Does this need to happen?

Since being here in Utah we have already made a trip to the ER at Primary Children's hospital! I was out buying items for my HS 10 year reunion and walked in the house to Easton crying and vomitting and Trent was washing him off in the kitchen sink. Come to find out that Reeghan had sat him on her bed to read him a book and she got into reading that she forgot about him and he crawled off and hit his head on the hardwood floor.

Trent had a lunch meeting to go to so he left and Easton started to fall asleep so I put him in his bed and then about 1.5hours later found him in bed with his vomit! Lovely! So I cleaned him up and just held him for a while and then he began to throw up viol! (sp?) it was yellowish and that freaked me out so I called Trent right away. Luckily he was in the elevator coming home so we decided to take him to an InstaCare here in SLC. We got there and waited and waited and come to find out they don't have a CT scanner so they wouldn't have been able to help us anyway so they told us to drive up to the ER at Primary Children's hosptial.

We got there and to make a long drawn out story short we were there for 4 hours and his scan turned out negative! It was so hard to see this little boy all snug and straped down on the bed getting ready for his scan but at the same time he was so cute and just had this worried look on his face and wondering what all the red lights were doing on his face. After that we had to wait while he drank some apple juice to see if he kept it down and he did so they finally let us go.

The girls were with my sister Leslie! Thank you for family so close! We went and picked them up and chated for a while and then Easton began vomitting again! He did it twice this time! UGHH! I had been anxious to have Trent give Easton a priesthood blessing so we asked Leslie to call her home teacher which ended up being related to our Stake President back home (small world) He was a great man and talked to the children about blessings and then proceeded to tell us that the night previous he had given a blessing to his wife and bore his testimony about the priesthood. It was a wonderful spiritual experience. Thank you Brother Barton!

While getting into the car Trent was putting Paetan in and she scratched his eyeball he was in pain all night long to the point that he couldn't sleep very well. I was a nervous wreak and totally stressed! Now I have a cold sore to prove it! I thought that the last 3 weeks of being in California preparing for a move were stressful, man was I wrong!

Easton slept all night and that morning gave him formula and he vomitted that up as well so we called my mother-in-law and she suggested we take him to a chiropractor to get adjusted so Dustin Carlson (Trent's business partner here in SLC) referred us to one and we got in right away and it was a great experience and he seemed to take it rather well. He had already been two times previous for his ear infections so he was a little familar with the man rubbing him and stretching him around.

That morning Rebecca took my girls and so we went and picked them up and gave him a tiny bit of applesauce which he did keep down. I guess we just need to give him little amounts of food and formula at a time until he builds up again.

The last 2 days were so long and drawn out and then to top it all off on our way to my HS reunion family swim party Friday night Paetan throws up in the car! You got to be kidding me not now! She continued all that night and all night long so I ended up sleeping in the bed with her to make sure it was getting to the right place. Poor kid! She looks so pale and just so sick!

With all this going on I have to admit and Trent reminds me that it isn't so bad! It all could have been worse. We live by alot of homeless and sick people lying around and I just have counted my many blessings to be able to be healthy and to live the life I do and to have the family that I do and to appreicate everyday even if these types of days are thrown at us. We need to rely on the Lord to get us through it and to allow him into our lives.

Walk Downtown and Strawberry Days

This morning I decided to take the children for a stroll around the downtown area. We walked about 9 blocks towards the City Hall building which the girls called the castle. We took some pictures their by the water fountain. It was a good opportunity to tell the girls about the importance of street safety especially when crossing the street.

The girls are so curious about the people around them because there are all types of people around them downtown. They ask the funniest questions and at times they can be so loud too. Why is it that kids can stare down someone but if an adult does it its like a crime? I just thought I would make that point. I am not saying that I do it of course but children I guess are just too cute to get mad at if they stare.

Later that afternoon we took the kids over to my friend Leah's house to play. They love to play with other kids toys and especially now because I only have one bucket of toys at the condo so they get bored. Leah has a girl named Erin which is 4 months older than Easton and she was being so cute to him and trying to kiss him on the head.

That night we drove down to Pleasant Grove and met up with Trent's Benjamin Franklin Academy classmate, Tiffany and her family for dinner. I guess you could say Trent had his own HS reunion too but just with one classmate out of 12 total. He graduated early because it was a private school.

After dinner we went to Pleasant Grove's Strawberry Day's which had carnival rides and a craft boutique. The ride lines were long and within the 20 minutes we were there it started to rain so we decided to leave.

We then met up with Trent's sister Erynne and we drove over to Trent's family friends the Crosby's to chat and talk with Erynne. It just so happened that their daughter, Sandi was in town with her 3 kids which are close in age of mine so the girls had a great time playing. They have 2 cats and Paetan was so scared of them and was just beside herself if she had to get near one of them. We had a fun time just laughing at her!

Warehouse Condo

Salt Lake City, Utah

My sister Leslie flew in Saturday night to take Easton on a flight with her back so that we didn't have to travel with him. But an hour into our drive we got a text from her that the flights were full and that she wasn't going to get out. Luckily we were only 30 minutes away from the Ontario airport so we just picked them up. It turned out to be a good thing that she didn't get on because she was a big help to me with all the children in Trent's car. We brought both of our cars and Trent was driving my car full of all our stuff for the summer time.

We stopped at Rachaels in Enoch to spend the night and just relaxed Monday morning and just let the kids play until we had to get back on the road again and drive another 3.5hours to SLC.

When we arrived we had to bring up our our things to the 3rd floor. Thank goodness we don't live Urban style living all year round. I can only handle so much packing things up and down to and from our car. It would be alot easier if it was just Trent and I but with a family of 3 children this lifestyle just doesn't work. Its a beautiful place and we fit nicely and its only temporary plus its within walking distance of alot of the downtown attractions. I am excited to venture out and show the children this beautiful city that I grew up by but never got a chance to really explore growing up.