Salt Lake City!

On Monday I had to work and that evening we went to the new Provo Rec Center for a swim with Laura and Maren.  It was fun once Maren and Halle got used to the water and stopped crying, but probably not worth the price of admission.  Maybe if Eve was older.  They had a cool playground in the water for kids, but everywhere you turned it sprayed you with water or dumped water on your head.  After the first incident of unexpected soakage, Eve was down and content to wade around in the shallow water FAR from that thing.  

Andrew's parents were in St. George Monday - Wednesday so we had to find ways to occupy ourselves in their absence.  So Tuesday we did a trip up to Salt Lake City and met up with Stuart/Genevieve and Kelly at the new City Creek Mall!  

Andrew hates shopping, but was good enough to play along as we wandered and window shopped!

The mall comes with a great view!

Eve has taken to snapping pictures with our camera - this one is courtesy of her!  

"Smile, Mom!"

At one store, we picked out matching white dresses for the girls and at another Stuart and Genevieve got the kids ring pops.  They were a HUGE hit!

Good luck finding a picture with Eve separated from her ring pop for a second until she had licked every last drop!  And it took her a long time...

Daryn did a good job looking cute!

And then the Disney Store happened.  As soon as she got inside and realized what it was, Eve went nuts!  She started gathering up as many stuffed animals as she could, as fast as she could!

And she wasn't the only one!

Haha, it was quite a feat to get all the girls away from the toys and back outside, but they came away with treats, so it worked out.  They each got a set of princess figurines!  

It was time for a snack from Kneaders next before crossing the street to Temple Square.

The flowers at Temple Square were breathtaking!  

An eternal family!

We stopped in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building while we were there - 

And Reagan found a new way to cool off!

A closer look at the temple:

It was neat to take the kids into the visitors center and show them the statue of Christ.  Also in the visitors center were life-size statues of Adam and Eve.  I explained who they were to Eve and she replied, "I want to go give myself a hug!"  Silly girl!

By then, it was time to head back to the mall to meet Lance for dinner at Johnny Rockets!  He works right near the mall, so it worked out really well!  The food was yummy but having so many little kids, we kind of destroyed the place....

This is why we don't eat out.

It was getting dark out as we made our way back through the mall towards the cars.  Eve and Chiara got to see the large trout in the stream that runs through the mall (it's hard to see in the picture, but I promise they're there!).

We let Eve have one last glimpse of the water fountains as we left - she would have happily played in those for a while if we'd let her!  But alas, it was late and we still had a long drive ahead of us....