What we did on our Utah trip:

Jack....

Looked CUTE cheesin' it up for the camera.

Went to a SNOW COVERED park with daddy and crazy shorts-wearing Uncle Chardie (Richard)

Discovered the teeter-totter. WAY FUN!

FROZE sitting in the snow.

Went on his first CHOO CHOO ride (Trax). (NOT impressed...)

Tested out EVERY chair in the conference center.

Lindsay...

Got a little CRAFTY.
Compared BELLIES.

(Lexi at 25 1/2 weeks on the left, me at 20 1/2 weeks on the right.)

Adam...

Took pretty pictures of the Temple.Enjoyed a LONG weekend with the BOY. Found random Snuggie wearers in Downtown Salt Lake.

The Zockolls...

Had a wonderful trip.

Last trip of the summer...

A couple of weeks ago we were talking to the Fagans about how fun it would be to do a trip without our kids. Everything just fell into place - we were able to arrange it with grandparents, the La Jolla condo was available, and we were even able to get free tickets to Disneyland. Seriously...this trip was the BEST! And the cherry on the sundae of it all: Jack was AWESOME for my parents...yay! (This was the first time we had left him for longer than a few hours, and I was a bit nervous about it, but he did great!)

Thursday, once Adam and Trevor got off work, we headed down to California. My parents live in Pasadena, so we took a little detour and dropped Jack off. A few tears later (mine), and we were on our way! Kid free for a long weekend!

Friday morning, we woke up, got ready and headed up to Disneyland. Seriously...the happiest place on Earth. It was SO much fun! Get ready for SERIOUS picture overload:

This is us in line for Space Mountain. I don't know if you can really call it a line, we just had to walk through the line, it was only like a 5 minute wait. This was the first ride we went on...can you tell how excited we are!?!?!

Just stopping to take some more pictures in line...

Tiffany and me being dorks...

The ride about to start...yay!

After Space Mountain, we headed over to Frontierland. For those of you who don't know my husband well, he talks to everyone! After coming out of a store, Adam saw a Disneyland worker dressed up like a cowboy with a violin. Adam says something to him about having a hoedown. Well...the next thing you know, this man is grabbing people from all around and teaching them dance steps. I'm not a big "embarrass myself in public" person, so thankfully Tiffany jumped in and danced with Adam. I kid you not when I say it took this man 10 minutes to get this hoedown going. He would teach a step, and then start just talking about something else, and then teach another step. It definitely made for a memorable part of the trip!

The whole hoedown gang

Pirates of the Caribbean

Me and cute Adam on our favorite ride, Thunder Mountain

Yay for free Disneyland tickets! Thanks Troy!

We had park hopper passes, so we decided to head over to California Adventures. Now, it's no Disneyland, but there are still a few fun rides. In fact, if you ever go there I highly recommend the new Toy Story ride over there. You have a little dart gun and you shoot virtual darts at targets. It's seriously SO much fun! Plus, it's 3-D!

In our cool 3-D glasses

Nervous to get on California Screamin'

We took a picture of this ride picture on California Screamin' because we all look just AWESOME in it (awesomely bad)

Back to Disneyland for some more rides, pictures and an AWESOME fireworks show.

Me and my Prince Charming Riding Space Mountain....again!
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Saturday morning we slept in and then spent the rest of the day exploring tide pools, shopping, hanging out at the beach, and playing games. It was so nice to just relax that whole day. Me and Adam at Mission Beach
At La Jolla Beach Park
Sunset at the beach

Sunday was spent packing up and heading home. I was sad to see the trip end, but so excited to have my little Jack back!Two sleepy boys on the car ride home

BH Trip with the BFFs!

This past weekend we went to Brian Head, Utah with our BFF's (and neighbors), the Fagans. We had SUCH A BLAST! The weather was SO nice...I want to move there.

Our first stop was to this awesome park in Cedar City. It was probably the nicest park I've ever been to, and Jack had such a fun time exploring.

Jack and Adam preparing to go down the slide

Our next stop was to good old Pizza Factory. I don't think I can go to Cedar (or anywhere that has a Pizza Factory) and not stop. I am a sucker for those breadsticks. Unfortunately, this was not the best Pizza Factory experience. The hostess STUNK (not literally), and skipped over our name while we were outside because the lobby was packed. Then she put us back at the bottom of the list. Needless to say, it took forever to get seated. Then I got my treasured breadstick, and there was hardly any buttery/garlicy goodness on it. Sad! At least our waitress was nice and the pizza was good.

We got to the condo, which was the perfect set-up. We could each put our kids to bed and still stay up to play games and hang out in the living room. Plus, the bedroom closet was the perfect size for a pack-n-play so Jack was in the room with us, but couldn't see us if he woke up in the middle of the night.

The next morning we headed out to do some exploring. We stopped at the Chessmen Ridge Overlook to get a look at Cedar Breaks. It's awesome. I'd never been there before, and I was not expecting to see something like Cedar Breaks in the middle of all of those trees. Beautiful...

Jack and Adam at Chessmen Ridge Overlook
Our family checking out Cedar Breaks (can you tell it's windy?)
Me and my cute husband in the back of the LR3 (my next car...I wish!)

Next we headed back on some trails to find a good picnic spot. We finally found a great clearing and set up our picnic. After some exploring, we made some good old PB&Js and started to eat when we heard a low "mooooo." We turned and saw that 5 cows had joined us! (I had actually been joking about that earlier, because we had seen cows here and there as we drove along the trails.)

Jack seems facinated by Callie. Maybe he needs a sibling...

The two cutest boys ever!
Jack chilling on a log

Our picnic set-up with the cows behind us. Jack was in LOVE with the cows. Here he is waving to them.

After that we went on the LONGEST off-roading trip of my life. I am seriously so glad Trevor knows what he is doing, because there were a few times I felt like that LR3 was going to flip over! It was fun though, we got to see lots of the beautiful forest, and we got to know this guy Paul Hunter along the way.

Jack is big on holding hands. Jack and Alex, Jack and Callie

We headed back to the condo, had some of Tiffany's YUMMY pot roast and then put the kids to bed.
The men! (Jack and Alex have matching jammies)

Warning!!!! This is the BEST part of this blog!

We had decided earlier in the day to make s'mores that night after the kids went to bed. We started traditional, then added some peanut butter cups, and then Trevor invented this beauty:

Yep, that is a cookie s'more. YUMMY!
Adam enjoying his cookie s'more. Don't be jealous ladies...he's all mine! (Sidenote: he did smoosh the cookie all over his face and make that face for the picture)

We slept (while visions of cookie s'mores danced in our heads), and when we got up it was time for more exploring! We checked out Brian Head Peak, first. There was such an awesome view up there...but man was it cold!

The Zockolls at 11,307 feet

The boys had so much fun at Brian Head Peak!

Next the Fagans took us to a lake, and we walked on a trail alongside a stream. The boys had so much fun throwing rocks and sticks into the water.

Jack and Adam enjoying the great outdoors!

We had such a fun time on this trip! Thanks Fagans for taking us along!

The boys watching Trevor and Adam pack the car below...we were all sad to leave!