Weekend in Park City (Part 1)

 (published 4/27/26)

We ended our summer with a little adventure in Park City and had a blast! Cat's goldfish, Ted, joined us, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Turned out, it was not.

Wednesday Evening:

Fun at the hotel pool, game room, and games back in our room

Thursday:

Game room, Olympic Park*, and a family bike ride where we ran into Pres. Biden's motorcade twice**, and Ben took the kids out to dinner while I went back to SLC for Choir rehearsal.

*Activities included Alpine slide, extreme tubing (on the ski jump slopes), ropes course with zipline, watching ski jumpers practice jumping into a pool

**We saw them going up the mountain to an event, then we biked to a restaurant for lunch, and on our way back we saw them driving back down the mountain.

August 1-9, 2023

 (published 9/11/25)

While Suz and Whit were still in town for Newsies, we had a few more adventures. First was a hike to The Grotto (on the Nebo Loop) and a picnic at a park with the Fields.

Whit and Luke also enjoyed time to build forts and do some Just Dance videos.

"Nooma Nooma" is the favorite.

Meanwhile, Cat and Liza engaged in other activities.

And Jack had to learn a lesson.

I took Jack and John Morgan to meet up with Zerin for a birthday movie!

We brought the Fields with us to Lindon Days's Huck Finn fishing night and once again

came home with a big fat nothing. I didn't mind, but the kids were disappointed.

Luke just caught grass.

Sawyer got lucky!

At least jack got a pic.

Sydney stayed dry and fish-smell-free by playing on the playground
the whole time. We all went out for ice cream at Maceys afterward.

Luke finished swim lessons!

A picture to commemorate the last time I'll take any of my
children to swim lessons. I might have been more excited than Luke.

While Cat and Liza were with friends, Ben and I took the boys to
The Great Salt Lake Truck Show (actually held at a park near Ben's office
in Lehi). It was dozens of large tractor-trailers, washed and polished and lit up,
many of them with unique modifications or paint jobs, parked all over the sad,
soggy grass (which is now full of deep tire ruts). It was actually pretty cool. And while
we were there, Jack decided that being a truck driver is his number one career goal.

Ben and I took the boys on a little kayaking excursion at Deer Creek.

I always love getting out on the water on a warm, sunny day.

I was glad to have some company!

That night Ben took these guys to the Jordan River Temple to do baptisms.

Back at home, Cat played games with Luke.

After church on Sunday, we all went to a Church building in Orem where we visited a replica of an Old Testament Tabernacle, which was actually pretty cool. As many paintings and diagrams as I've seen, it was great to have a 3D visual to help me understand and remember the layout and the symbolism. I was afraid the kids would be miserable, but they actually enjoyed it. Luke even knew a lot about it before we arrived from learning about the OT last year, which was really impressive to me. I was reading to everyone from the Bible Dictionary while we were driving and he would say, "Mom, we already know that!" and then he would describe things correctly - including the three sections of the Tabernacle and what they contained. It was awesome. The kids were a bit rowdy, and they didn't want to answer any of the hosts' questions, but overall they were good and they learned a few things too.

On Monday morning we slept in and made cinnamon rolls.
Definitely one of my favorite traditions.

That night we had a fun sushi dinner at Sushi 38 & Noori Chicken,
then we saw The Sound of Music at the outdoor theater at Sundance.

On Tuesday we finally went to Splash Summit. It was crowded but fun.

On Wednesday, Jack got his Learner's Permit!