Quick (but fun) family trip

Last week we were able to go down to Salt Lake for a night. I really wanted to go to Park City for a few days like we did last year but with moving and the baby coming, we just couldn't get enough time to go. So, we went to Salt Lake and stayed last Sunday night and came home Monday. Quick but still fun!!!

Casey's brother just had a new baby a few weeks ago so while we were in Salt Lake, we went and visited them. Baby "Shark" (as Olivia called her for a little while) was so cute! I can't believe how tiny she is. It is hard to imagine my little girl was ever that little and that this little boy will be that small!!! (By the way, her name is Charlotte, not shark, and Olivia was able to say it pretty good by the time we actually got to their house) I didn't get any pictures of the sweet new baby but I did get some fun ones of Lou Lou and her two cousins, Amelia and Ezra, playing. Olivia had so much fun with her cousins!!!! Amelia is 5 1/2 and Ezra is 3, so they are all close enough in age that they can get along pretty good. This is really the first time that Olivia has been big enough to actually go along and play with them.


Justin (Casey's brother) got out the Barbie power wheels and Olivia was in heaven!!! She loved to ride around in that thing! She even started screaming when we made her come in for a break and eat a cookie. How horrible, have to stop playing to have a yummy, fresh from the oven cookie!!! She was able to drive Ezra's cool little 4 wheeler toy for a bit but he didn't like that too much. But he was a pretty good driver on it, as you can see in the next picture!!

He drove it up the pole of the trampoline and it flipped over on him. We all thought it was pretty funny and had time to take pictures (obviously) before we realized he really couldn't get up from under it. Good thing it is a plastic toy!!!


Cheese!!!!
Watch out!!! Olivia's driving!!!! She didn't really steer, just pushed down the gas but she thought it was great!!! Amelia wouldn't ride with her though, she said "I don't ride, I just drive." I don't blame her though, who would really trust a 2 year old to drive??? Olivia really did have so much fun and keeps asking if she can go play with Amelia and Ezra again.
The next day, we got up and went to Hogle Zoo. Olivia loves animals and loved when we went to Tautphaus Park, which we had just went 2 days before with Grandma and Grandpa. We had told Olivia a few days before actually went down to Utah that we were going to Hogle Zoo and so she kept asking everyday if we were going to the zoo. I would have the tell her no, not for a few days. Finally she told me, "Papa will take me to the zoo." So as soon as she saw her Papa she said "Papa, you take me to the zoo?" and of course he said yes. So we loaded up and went to Tautphaus Park the next day (Saturday) even though we would be going to a zoo again in 2 days (Monday). What a spoiled girl. She really knows how to work those grandparents of hers!!! Even though, we had fun at Hogle Zoo.

Lou was really excited to see the elephants and they did not disappoint!! There was a cute little baby elephant. She was about a year old and Olivia thought she was pretty neat. She thought it was funny they had put there food on their heads and told me "Mom, you better go wash them, they have messy face."

One of the highlights of the zoo was oddly enough a carousel. Olivia rode it twice and both times she had to be on "Uniqua's dolphin." Uniqua is one of the Backyardigan characters that she loves (you'll have to read the previous birthday post if you don't know about her obsession) and in one episode Uniqua is a dolphin racer. So, of course, it was AWESOME to ride Uniqua's dolphin at the zoo!!! She also thought the choo-choo train ride was pretty neat.



Lou Lou riding the "kitty-cats." You can kind of see a baby belly shot in this picture. I don't I have put any of those on here yet.
Picking a tiger. She ended up taking a pink one home. Mom and Dad are suckers.
And I would like to say this is how Olivia was the whole way home, but no, just to Layton were we stopped to eat at Olive Garden. Then she stayed awake the rest of the car ride. It was actually okay, she was really good.

So our little family trip was very short this year but still fun. Olivia was great and and had a good time. She did have a few accidents at Justin and Joi's house in her "travel panties" (as we call her pull-ups, they are also called night time panties for when she goes to bed) but she was excited and running around chasing her cousins so that was understandable. No accidents at the zoo though so that was good!!! Lots of fun, hopefully we get to take a little longer trip next year but we will see, we will have two little monsters to chase around then!!