Sunday, November 27, 2011

Our adventures in Utah

We flew up to Utah Monday night arriving at Grandpa's house around midnight.
At the airport roughly 11pm.
With our baggage that miraculously made the flight with us.
Tuesday morning we went to Temple Square, took a tour of the beehive house, and the conference center.
Connor and Daddy in front of a fountain
Ellie, Camille and Claire check out the water fall while...
Connor slept
Then we headed home. Later that night we met up with cousins for an ice cream party, which made for another late night-but we enjoyed it.

Wednesday we met up with more cousins and took a trip to Logan to visit the cheese factory, then stopped at A & W for lunch, followed by a trip to the Pepperidge Farm Factory. I was looking forward to getting a bunch of bags of Milano cookies, but they didn't have any...bummer. Instead we picked up other cookies and gold fish for really cheap.
The employee of the month parking space.
Connor somewhat enjoyed playing in the snow...until it got really cold.
The adults and cousins enjoyed the snow and a good snowball fight
Then we went to an ice cream place and had dessert
Connor really enjoyed the kids' table and chairs.
Back at home Connor knocked over a cup of water onto Peter's lap...it was too funny.
Looks like my Daddy wet his pants, doesn't it?
My great grandpa let me play with these cool toys.

I love this video-I have such a smart baby.

Thursday morning we prepared for the big feast. We brought a spinach salad for the feast.
During the morning we all went over to another house and made food. (Not many pictures were taken today...but a few videos will be posted later.)

Friday morning we went to visit more cousins and more importantly to visit their farm. Connor got up close and personal with horses, pigs and chickens. He wasn't fond of the horse who nearly bit his hand off (though I think he was more upset that the horse took his apple). The pigs were loud and smelly and the chickens were just the right size for him.
After our fun with the farm animals. We visited quickly with the Mackley's, went to Seagull Book, then out to lunch at Cafe Rio, and then headed back to get ready for the Novemberfest.
Connor and I are chickens, Peter is a pizza.
Basically Novemberfest is Oktoberfest held the day after Thanksgiving. We rent a church (same for Thanksgiving) and all the family gets together for another great party. We dance, play games, socialize and have a great time.

The chicken dance

The hat game-basically musical chairs with hats.

My gnomes (look he's showing his teeth)
Peter and other manly men dancing


Well I think this post is long enough. More videos to come a little later.

6 comments:

Lisa said...

What fun!!

Fred ... said...

It looks like you had a great time. You have a very smart boy.

Kira said...

OMG!!!! Connor has zoo many teeth!!! I know he's old enough I just haven't seen him so it seems drastic to me!!!

Mad dancing skills Peter!

Alycia Grayce (Crowley Party) said...

He is looking so big! So adorable :)

melissa @ 1lbr said...

So glad I finally had a chance to check this post out. I LOVE the dancing. Wish we could have made it, it looks like a riot of fun!

Ellen said...

awesome - can you sneak us in next year?!!