Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Utah - Temple Square

On Friday we met Cirdan's Grandma, Aunt and Uncle for lunch. It was great to see his Aunt and Uncle again and it was a nice lunch. Kinda crazy in the restaurant with 3 kids but everyone survived. The girls enjoyed meeting Grandpas brother.
We then headed to Salt Lake to walk around Temple Square. We started at the visitor center. The kids had fun at first then got a little bored. While Cirdan and Ella went to the bathroom I started talking to a couple of the sister missionaries. They were both from different countries. One from Austria and Tonga. They were really nice. They mentioned that across the street there was a building with some things for the kids to do. I had no idea where they were talking about and they were more than willing to walk over there and show us. I am glad we ran into them and got talking because we always just go to the visitor center and you can only do that so many times. I am glad to know there are other cool things around. Made me wonder how many other things we were missing! Ha ha
The building was the Church History Museum. I would have never thought about going in the building. Pretty cool stuff in there!
Downstairs was filled with pictures kids around the world had drawn. It was really interesting and neat to see the ages and countries the kids were from. A lot of the pictures were super good! Kaiya was amazed.
Here is one  up close that was amazing. A 10 year old from Taiwan drew it.
There was a little station where Ella and Kaiya could draw a picture and it would show up on a tv screen playing drawings the kids made.
We went up a couple of floors where there there was an area with a lot of kids activities. One was this boat they could play in. Jett liked to fish with Cirdan.
There was an area the kids could dreess up in Mexican dance clothes and there were a couple of tv's showing them how to do a Mexican dance.

Wood blocks of vegetables the kids could pretend to plant
I need to get some of these for our house. After I get rid of the other millions of toys the kids have...
Ella absolutely loved playing with these dolls. There was little outfits that you put on them. We had to pull her away from this to leave.
I need to get this picture blown up to put on her bedroom wall...
Outside the Conference Center. Jett loved watching the water.
State Capital
The plan was to go to University of Utah with Kaylee after she got out of her meeting. We waited but then found out she went to Orem to do some last minute wedding stuff. So, we went back to our hotel. Cirdan ended up taking the kids to the pool to swim.

Kaylee and Rusty Get Married

Kaylee got married around 1:00 or 2:00 (I can't remember) so we had some time in the morning to relax and get ready. We headed to the Salt Lake temple and waited outside for them to come out. The weather was nice...no rain...but it was windy with a cold chill. The girls did good waiting. Jett got a little impatient after the first 30-45 minutes.
Run, run, run!
Those pink heels + a pregnant lady = not a good combo.
Here they are! Married!
My parents with the happy couple.
His parents...
Gram...
The Eads family drove from California to be there...
Here are some pictures from the reception. Kaylee did well pulling everything together for the reception in Utah. It looked beautiful!
My happy Jetty
They served fondue. I was so busy with the kids and visiting with all the people that we knew from the past that came to the reception that I didn't even try it. I am still bummed. :) I heard it was yummy.
Caught in the act.
I think the last time they saw each other was Nate and Amy's wedding? This is my friend Sonnet's daughter. Sonnet and I have been friends since 4th grade. They live in Utah now. It's wonderful that Kaiya and Averie can just pick up and play together like they saw each other last week.
Kaiya and Noelle Eads
Troublemakers
Friends since 4th grade. It was awesome seeing them and spending some time together!! I miss these girls!
These University of Utah kids got their car decorated with BYU colors.