Park City Mini Vacation

At the last minute, my parents were able to secure two of their timeshares in Park City this week. Mallory, Hayley, Brittney and I went up Wednesday morning and stayed until Thursday afternoon. It was such a short trip, but it was soooo nice to get away. I really wish we could have stayed longer but we had other commitments on Tuesday and Thursday nights. The girls were so excited to go and stay in a condo overnight! We stayed at the Marriot Summit Watch Resort which is sooo nice. My parents had two separate units (they were across the plaza from each other--we literally could look inside each other's living room windows across the way) with three king sized beds between the two and three pull out couches! When we arrived on Wednesday morning, we unloaded all our stuff. Mallory, Hayley and Brittney each had their bag of clothes, a backpack of toys, a blanket and their Pillow Pet. We looked like we were staying for a whole week instead of just overnight! I guess I didn't pack very lightly either because I brought a few projects and books to read, just in case I had time (I didn't)! After we dropped all of our things off in the room, we went with my Mom to check out the facilities (the pool, the kids club room, the kids activities, etc.) before we ate lunch. My SIL Tera and her two kiddos, Ella and Ezra, arrived (my youngest sister Becca and her kids, Chloe and Wesley, were already there--they were lucky and able to stay the entire week with my parents). While Ella and Ezra tried to take a nap, Mallory, Hayley and Wesley fingerpainted! They had so much fun!

Later, we took the kids swimming and they had a blast! I made Mallory, Hayley and Brittney all wear the life jackets the entire time unless they were in the hot tub or when I worked with them on their swimming one-on-one! The pool was a lot warmer than I thought it would be! We stayed at the pool for about 2 hours before it was time to shower and get ready for dinner. At dinnertime, Aleece and John and their kids: Kaitlin, A.J., and Arika arrived as well as my sister Leslie and her kids Conner and Griffin. We had quite the house full for dinner but we had a great time just being together!

We didn't end up going to bed until almost 11 p.m.! Mallory and Hayley had staked out the window seats as their beds when we first arrived. Brittney and I slept in the fold out couch with Conner, A.J. and Kaitlin on the floor in the living room! It took the cousins awhile to settle themselves down so they could go to sleep!

On Thursday, we ate breakfast, got ready and headed to a park down the road. We all played there until my girls and I dashed back to the condo to grab and stuff, eat a sandwich and get on the road home!

It was such a nice mini-vacation! I so wish we could have stayed longer--I never got the chance to head to the outlets shopping!! Maybe next time!!

Hayley and Brittney fingerpainting

Mallory and Wesley--Wesley LOVES red!

Britt Bee

Hayley hanging out in the hot tub!

Mallory lounging in the hot tub!

Ella

Dad, Aleece and lots of the kids going for a walk on the plaza between our rooms!

Conner, Mallory, Aleece, Kaitlin, Brittney, Wesley, A.J., Dad and Hayley (on Grandpa's shoulders)

Mallory's Window Seat bed--with a very HEAVY blanket

Connor and A.J. on the floor in front of the fireplace

Hayley and Kaitlin--the best little cousin friends!

Brittney gets to sleep with MOM!! Lucky girl!!

Brittney, Mallory, A.J. Kaitlin, Conner, Chloe, Wesley (hiding in the back of the stroller), Arika and Hayley under THE SHOE TREE in Park City on the trail to the park

Mallory at the Musical Park (they were lots of wood and metal things with sticks to bang on--very creative!)

Hayley playing some pieces of wood!

Ella--what a cutie!!

Brittney went in search of her own sticks!!

Hayley swinging at the park

Brittney hanging on for dear life!

Wes flying through the air with Becca ready to catch him!

Brittney digging in the sand

Park City Weekend

This weekend we had the opportunity to go watch Taylor - Scott's niece and the girl's cousin- who came from Pennsylvania, compete in a gymnastics meet in Park City. We found out about the meet back in September and have had the dates reserved since then. The girls have been asking constantly since then how much longer until we could see Taylor and Cameron. You would have thought it was Christmas around here the past week--the girls have been soooo excited!!! We decided to make a mini-vacation out of it! Scott's mom and her two friends flew up from Arizona, Scott's dad and all of his brother's and their families came up too! We had quite the cheering section for the girls from Prestige Gymnastics, Taylor's club in Pennsylvania!! Taylor did awesome!! She won 1st place in the all-around for her age division for Level 8 (she also won 1st two weeks ago in Chicago!!)!! There were clubs in Park City from Utah, Nevada, California, Florida, Arizona and of course, Pennsylvania! Hayley, Taylor, Brittney and Mallory after the meet--Taylor is sporting 2 Gold Metals, a Silver, a Bronze and a 6th Place ribbon!! Taylor's club gave each of the girls these cute T-shirts to wear!! Overall, Taylor's club did very well at this meet!

Taylor standing on the podium (center) after receiving her Gold Medal for the All-Around!!


Taylor (front in the black and blue leo) with her teammate during the Opening Introductions!


Hayley, in the hotel room, playing a game on Mom's phone.
Obviously, us parents, aren't as funny as we think we are! LOL I'm sure we will see this look many more times when Hayley is a teenager!


Also at the hotel, Mallory was practicing writing in cursive!


Brittney enjoying all the amenities of a hotel room!
Thirty seconds after arriving in the hotel room, Brittney declared, "This is the BEST hotel EVER!! That might be due to the fact that this is Brittney's first hotel experience EVER!



The day before Taylor's Gymnastics Meet, we spent the entire day with Duane & Shari, Taylor and Cameron. We had a great time!!!

After seeing her cousin Cameron riding a miniature snowmobile, Mallory thought "anything a boy can do, a girl can do too"! She had a blast--taking after her dad at a very young age!


Mallory getting ready to make a huge train at Gargoza's tubing hill! It's a great tubing hill because you have a conveyor belt and tow rope to take you to the top of the hill!

Hayley waiting at the bottom of the hill so we could all make another run!

Brittney dragging her tube! She had so much fun doing a BIG KID activity! She was Aunt Shari's little buddy the entire weekend--she wanted nothing to do with her parents!! Brittney giggled the whole way down the hill! The guy at the top of the hill gave up on telling Brittney how to sit correctly in the tube. Girls will do what girls want to do!! You would have thought, that by how old he was, he would have figured that out by now!




On Friday, we also drove up to Midway to see the Ice Castles! They were pretty amazing sculptures we were able to walk through!

Ice Castle's in Midway

GIRLS ONLY CLUB

Hayley's zipper broke on her coat ten minutes after we arrived in Park City. We went to try and find her a new one without success. We ended up buying her a large jacket to wear over her coat so we could zip her up! Silly you can't find a kids winter coat in Park City in the middle of the winter!


Shari, Duane, Cameron and Taylor at the Ice Castles

Our little family in the doorway of one of the Ice Castles!

Taylor, Cameron, Mallory, Hayley and Brittney

Our girls think Taylor is their hero! She is so good and cute with them! Taylor and Shari were ready to pack our little girls home with them because Taylor wants three little sisters. Cameron probably vetoed this idea!! Since we have been home, the girls have been doing cartwheels and somersaults all over the house!

What a great weekend!!

Thank you so much

Duane and Shari!!

We love you!!