Basically Dixon: October 2011

Warning Picture Over Load! After we left the cabin with Ryan's family we drove up to Salt Lake to see my family. Ryan only got to stay for a few days and then had to fly back to GA for work. So I think between not taking very many photos at the cabin and because Ryan wasn't going to be seeing his kids for the next week and a half I ended up taking a ton of pictures to make up for it.

To start out the week my mom and I drove up to Logan, UT to see my grandparents. (Let me just say that after this vacation was over I didn't want to drive in a car again for a very long time). My grandpa is in his 90's but played and entertained my kids the whole time we were there. I hope when I'm that age I'll still have that much energy (actually I wish I had that much energy now, that man is amazing).

Later on in the week we took the kids to the Hogle Zoo. It was a beautiful hot and sunny day, except for the crazy storm cloud that blew in for 10 mins and poured rain on us. The kids had a great time running around and looking at all the cool animals, riding in the little train and getting to play on the play ground before we left. I don't know about them but I was pretty pooped when we left.

They had a whole bunch of dinosaurs around the zoo that the kids liked finding, one even sprayed water on them.

Random rooster running freely, Caleb thought he could catch it.

This is about the time the rain started coming down,

and we took shelter near by and watched the elephants until it stopped.

feeling the elephant skin.

This picture makes me laugh, it is so Hadley. That tongue is always sticking out, in fact when she was born it was sticking out. And it's sooooo long and pointy, I have no idea were she gets it from but I'm trying to teach her to touch her nose with it.

One afternoon I took the kids over to a friends house and they got to run around and play in their sprinklers. After wards we had a little cook out with hot dogs and fresh yummy corn and cherries. First time Caleb had fresh cherries and he loved them. I had to make sure he didn't eat to many though.

My friend Cassandra's little boy Oliver. Isn't he a cutie, he's so funny to. He kept giving me all these serious looks but he's really just silly.

Here are the kids waiting for the train to take us downtown Salt Lake to see Temple Square. We should have just driven down there ourselves, because we got on the wrong train coming home and had to get off and then get back on the right one and it took for ever to get home. But the kids loved riding it, so it made it all worth it.

Inside the visitors center.

I'm so glad we made it to the outside of the temple. We got a late start in the morning leaving so after we made it through the visitors center the kids were hungry. We walked across the street and ate at this really yummy cafe/restaurant called Blue Lemon. While there Caleb wouldn't eat anything and just looked miserable so we were going to leave after that. But we made a "quick" stop at Deseret Books which of course turned into a longer stay than planned and Caleb fell asleep in one of the chairs in the store. When I woke him up he was running a fever, so I walked the kids down the street to a Rite Aid and got him some tylenol. Once we made it out of the store I gave Caleb some medicine, it didn't last cause it all came up, all over the sidewalk. Poor guy, but then after that he felt great! So we stayed a little bit longer and made it around to the reflection pool and took some more pictures. Always an adventure.