So it ended up being the last hurrah with the family in Salt Lake. The kids had UEA break and I thought we should go down to Sandy 1- 'cause I didn't want to have all the kids home all day for a week by myself, and 2- 'cause I thought it could be the last time we had to get down there to play with everyone before we possibly moved. We had a family we were working with to try and rent the home to, but it was taking a little bit of time to get it finalized, so I went down there not knowing for sure. Well on that Thursday they said it was for sure and then I got a call from the trucking company saying they were going to come on Wednesday. I wasn't planning on going home until Sunday, so that was only going to give me 2 days to pack everything. I thought that would be a little hard, but doable. So, we stayed and played.
Elizabeth didn't want to just go hang out so I told her we'd do something fun each day. I asked her to tell me one thing she wanted to do. She said Chucky Cheese, so we did. Thursday we went to Chucky Cheese with all the cousins and Mom and hung out for about an hour. I can't stand being there much longer. It's too noisy and chaotic, but the kids love it. We noticed there that Mellie's kids had pink eye. I wonder how many got it from us being there. After, we went back to Mom and Dad's and just played all day.It was great weather and the kids had so much fun playing together. We went to Draper Park later that day to do an updated cousins picture. This time Mom and Dad were in it. It was crazy to see all the little kiddos. There have been 4 since the last picture. Cute group of kids.
Friday we went down to Provo to visit Nana and Grandpa. Grandpa just moved into an assisted place and so we wanted to go see it. It was good to see them again and I figured it'd be the last time before we moved and sad to say, possibly even the last time I see Grandpa. When I left I tried not to think about it because it made me want to cry. Nana was so cute and had brought the kids treats. She always has candy in a dish at her place and they had mentioned that when we were driving down there, but she just came to meet up with us at Grandpa's. I thought it was so sweet that she thought to bring some treats for them. She's always been thoughtful like that. I also had a photo shoot down there and Jill was kind enough to watch 6 kids by herself. She took them to the Bean Museum and hung with them there for a little bit until I finished. She actually stayed at Mom's with us all week which was lots of fun. It's fun to have sister sleepovers. I wish the others could have come too. We tried to plan a girls get away before I left, but it just didn't work out with all the schedules.
Saturday we thought we'd try Gardner Village and get the kids all dressed up. It was fun, for like 10 minutes. Then it was just wandering around with a bunch of kids. They looked cute in their costumes though.
Sunday we had Mom's bday dinner. Since we were going to be gone for Halloween and some of the others couldn't make it on that day, we had a costume dinner which was fun. It was a lot of work to get all the kiddos dressed up, but it was fun. I was trying to be Elvyra but everyone thought I was Cher. Either way, my wig was horrible. I didn't have any time to work with it, I just threw it on and it was just hideous, but fun to dress up. I wore that dress to a HS prom. It was nice to be able to fit into it again. :)
After that, we headed back for a whirl wind of packing up the house to get ready for the truck to show up in 2 days. It was a fun weekend and I'm glad we did it! I'm going to miss our sleepover get togethers. I have the best family!
