Memorial weekend

We had a GREAT vacation over Memorial Day weekend!  Our friends, Danny and Steph, came into town (from Wisconsin) because her brother, Jared, is getting married June 1st, so they came early to see everyone.  We started out by going to a Real game Saturday night.

This is Jared (Steph's brother). He and Ari played throughout the entire game.  It was adorable!

Ari, Jared, Holly, Holly's parents, and Lexi is on Danny's lap.

 After the game (Real tied with Chicago, 1-1), we all headed up to a cabin in Coalville (about 15 minutes from Park City) Danny and Steph had gotten for the weekend for everyone.

Kitchen and living room area

More of the kitchen/dining room area

This was our family's' room.

I should have taken pictures before we messed everything up...  :)

Our bathroom (one of the many)

Theater room in the basement.

 There was SO much to do at the cabin!

CREEPY!!!!!

View from the game loft upstairs

We named him Elliot the Elk

 We got to the cabin around midnight Saturday.  Ari looked up at the elk and gasped in horror, "Santa's reindeer!!"  Steph said that the other half was outside and that he was just watching the kids for Santa.  Still kinda creepy, but brilliant.  ;)

 The weather was gorgeous the whole weekend, and there was plenty to do outside.  I didn't get a picture of the hot tub, but trust me, it was used and loved.

That is Emma, Danny's niece, who listened to whatever Lexi said the whole time.  I feel like I owe her babysitting money or something...

Ari hardly slept at all on Sunday, so Monday morning, she was TIRED.

Fighting sleep...

Danny thought it would be a good idea to "rock" her to sleep on the swing.  Until he sat down and realized what a bad idea that was.  hahahaha

She did fall asleep pretty quickly...and then slept for four hours.  She only got up then because I woke her up.

Plenty of games to play!

A matching Jared and Holly joined us on Monday afternoon.

Sand(ish) volleyball!

This was my team.  :)  We won.

Danny, Steph, Jared, and Holly playing horseshoes.

 We headed out after dinner on Monday, since Shane had to work Tuesday (today).  Lexi fell asleep on the couch right before we left, then woke up long enough to walk to the van and eat fruit snacks, then fell asleep again.  Ari had had a long enough nap earlier that she was fine and ate snacks while watching Shrek.  Kaden held on as long as he could, but he didn't make it home awake, either.

This means it was a great trip.

We pulled in the garage and Kaden opened his eyes enough to say, "Can I please go to bed?"

It was a great vacation!

Boondocks

Shane's mom, Karen, turned 51 this past Wednesday.  They took everyone to Boondocks to celebrate!  We'd never been there, but I'd heard good things about it, so I was excited to show the kids the place.

After pizza, cake, and ice cream, we started out with mini-golfing. 

Shane helping Kaden

 Two holes in, Lexi was bored and wanted to be done.  I can't say I blame her...golfing is the most boring "sport" in history.  So, I took her to the bumper boats, but it was super windy, which made it really, really cold and I didn't want to get wet.  (Mostly because I knew Lexi would be whiny the rest of the night if she was even slightly wet.)  I convinced her to try the bumper/race cars instead.  She technically wasn't tall enough, but the guy didn't stop us....  ;)

Eventually, all the girls had to go potty, so the rest of us went inside and Shane stayed outside with Kaden and did the bumper boats and race track.  There is arcade-type stuff to do inside (like a super expensive Chuck-E-Cheese).

The kids were all obsessed with the motorcycles.

Cute Ryley!

 

He loves posing and it cracks me up.

Roller balls!  Perfect size for the little kids.

The birthday girl bowling!

Shane had to go get Ari's ball.

Val helping Ryley.

Trying to show Ari how to roll the ball as opposed to throw it.

Kaden would get a running start and chuck the ball really hard.

Posing again

Ryley and Ari hugging

More motorcycles

It was a really fun night and the kids had a blast!  They got some cheap-y toys with their token ticket things and fell asleep on the way home.  :)

Happy 30th to Shane!

Since I had done Shane's surprise party the week before, I didn't really have anything planned for his actual birthday.  Especially because I had to work that evening.  We did our usual for lunch (Red Robin) and Shane let each of the kids get a ball out of the "vending" machine thingy.

Happy birthday!!

Oh my gosh she's SO stinkin' cute!!

They give you a free mud pie for your birthday and our kids devoured it!!  I barely had time to take a picture before it was gone!

Nom, nom, nom

I ended up getting a call from my boss while we were there and she told me not to worry about coming in since it was my husband's birthday.  :)  Which ended up being perfect because my best friend, M, invited us to her family's craw fish boil for dinner!  I tried craw fish and shrimp!!  Shane had tried craw fish before when someone brought it into work, but I knew this stuff would be waaay more fresh than what he'd tried.  He really liked it and we had a great time!  It was a great, relaxing day for Shane.