Can you think of a better way to start your vacation than with an abscess in your kids' mouth? I can! But, too bad, that's how we started our vacation! We got up early and were loading up the car when Conner said, "Mom? You know that bump in my mouth? Well it is really big and hurts really bad!" I looked in his mouth and this is what I saw!!! YIKES!
So, I shot a quick text to our friend/neighbor who is a dentist. He said meet me at my office in 20 mins. and we'll see what we can do! Yes folks, our dentist came at 7 am on a Saturday morning to take care of our kid. He is pretty awesome.
We took an X-ray and saw we probably need to pull that tooth. However, that would take some work. So, he decided to just lance the bubble - and I got to be his assistant!! It was soooo cool! I decided if I ever need a job I want to be a professional abscess cleaner outer!
So, we got on our way finally a couple hours later and headed up to Bountiful. But not before we had to take the detour over this bridge and stop for a picture!
We finally got to mom and dads that night, and had to continue tradition with a walk around the Bountiful temple on Sunday night! I love the beautiful temple that you can see right from their front yard!
Then Monday, we took a "hike" up Mueller Park Canyon and had a cookout with Kyle and his family, and Jill came with the kids because Kelson was out of town. My mom truly is a "mother nature" kinda lady. She loves to look at rocks and plants and birds, etc. I always hated that as a kid! Too funny. I sure appreciate that she likes to take her grandkids in nature and spend time with them though! And honestly, my kids just loved being with their Forsgren cousins. I feel bad we don't see them very much. It is all Cook cousins here in AZ. But, when we get together with the Forsgrens, it's like they've never been apart! I wish I had more cousin interaction when I was young! Oh well.
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| Lauren, Cassidy, Savannah, Conner, Matthew and Addi in front |
A couple days later, we went with Kyle and Angi and their girls up to Snowbird resort and had a great time! It is a winter ski resort, but in the summer they have fun things to go do as well!
We rode down their Alpine Slide several times which was super fun.
The kids jumped on the trampolines attached to ropes to do flips and stuff, also super fun!
Then, I had some crazy, fun meetings happen while we were there!
I was at my favorite - Nielsen's Frozen Custard with my sweet little friend Jana. And you can see, I mean little!!
All of a sudden, up walks my friend Karen! Karen and I are friends from Mesa, but she moved to Texas like 5 years ago and I haven't kept up with her since! But, here she was in Bountiful Utah at Nielsen's! She just happened to be visiting and stopped in! CRAZY! How fun it was to run into her and get caught of up on her girls and their life!
THEN, two days later we are at the "This is the Place" monument and park with our kids. We walk up to the entrance, and I happen to see a guy who looks familiar and I can't place why! Then, it hits me - that is Brent! My good friend Jana's husband! Then I look over, and there is my dear friend from college standing right there!!! We keep up with Christmas cards and talk every 2-3 years, but I haven't seen her in a long time!! They live in Michigan, and happened to be in town at the same place at the same time as me!! I was freaking out! It was soooo good to see them!
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| Nothing like running into good friends out of the blue!! |
It was a great trip home. Next year I hope to actually meet up with some of my high school friends that I didn't have time to see this year dangit! Or, I just may need that ski trip home this winter!
