A break

The girls and I took a break from normalcy and went to to SLC with Dan for a work training.  We jumped at the chance to stay in a hotel and drive a rental car. All on Dan's work.

While Dan was in class, the girls and I visited my Grammy and my cousin Jill (who happened to just pull into town from Washington the night before!), her kids, and my Aunt Cindy.  It was so nice to catch up with Jill!  We hadn't seen each other in about oh, five years or so!  And Alayna loved playing with her cute kids!  

And of course, my kids adore my Grammy.  I mean, who doesn't love Grammy!?!

But I think if we were to ask Alayna, one of her absolute favorite things was to swim in the water park that was in or hotel.  This was the first time she really enjoyed swimming in the pool and did things on her own.  Such as going down the slide.  All.by.herself.  (I think we have swimming lessons to thank for that.)

Here's the proof of the fun that was had.

While Alayna really came into her own with regards to the water, Brylen did not.  I don't know why our kids are so afraid of the water.  She and I spent most of the time sitting at the edge of the pool/hot tub with our feet in the water.  

She insisted on wearing her towel the entire time and holding it up to her face.  She wouldn't even let us take the towel off of her when we tried to put her in the pool.  Silly girl.

On our last day, we did a little outlet shopping and met, Megan, my college roommate for lunch.  We figured out, we hadn't seen each other in 9 years!  That's just crazy!  It was so good to see her and catch up!  We definitely are going to have to do it again.  Especially now that she has moved close to where my Grandparents live.

It was a nice little break.  Sure glad we chose to go!