Weekend Get-Away!

Home sweet home! It is always so nice to get home after a long trip to a familiar place, where kids can go to sleep no problem and just be in their comfort zone :) Theral and I were invited to a wedding reception in Salt Lake City so we figured "why not just make a family trip out of it." Famous last words I know! We made a long weekend out of it and traveled up Thursday night while the little tykes slept to avoid the craziness of the drive.

Friday we hit Lagoon. Yes it was exhausting but so worth the time we spent together as a family. And thanks to their Grandma and Grandpa we had some help with them so everyone got to go have fun <3 

They were pretty excited about the stamps on their hand :)

 On a couple of different rides! Wallace did so good going on the rides himself. 

I was kind of skeptical about it when we were buying his ticket, but he had fun and participated.

Cedric's first ride was the train, we had to document that ;)

On Saturday we went to the Zoo. Last year when we did this same trip Wallace was just under a year old so of course he doesn't remember it, so I wanted to make sure he got to go see the animals. The boys both had a lot of fun looking at them and watching them move around. 

(We were lucky and got to the animals while they were out and about, even though it was really hot!)

 

The Polar Bear was probably the most exciting to the boys. He was having so much fun swimming in his water we ended up watching him for a while. The boys really got to see how big he was compared to them! 

When we got to the peacock he had his feathers all ruffled out! 

Not something you see all the time. He walked around for awhile showing them off. 

(Isn't he beautiful?)

Throughout the zoo they have different statues of animals that kids can go up to and touch and play with.

The trunk of the elephant was alot of fun! I am glad I got to get a picture of them on it this year, 

Theodore wouldn't go near it last year, scared him to bad ;)

But I understand it is pretty big and kids don't quite understand!

 And of course after a day at Lagoon the kids wanted to get back on the Merry-Go-Round! 

The whole weekend was perfect. The boys got to see where their favorite Auntie moved to (they are always hearing about Salt Lake so it was nice to actually show them where she lives now.) But it is nice to be home and get back into the swing of things.