life or something like it

Life or Something like it

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Summer Vacay in UTAH

Matt, Marcus and I went on our Summer vacation to Utah this year! We figured it was a good place to take our baby on his first vacation (a resort doesn't sound appealing with a baby at this point- sand in his mouth, too much sun AND Marcus sleeping in a tiny hotel room with us (which means we have to be quite after 8pm) NO THANKS!

So we stayed at Matt's Aunt and Uncles vacation home on a Mountain just outside of Park City! 4 bathrooms and 5 bedrooms all to ourselves seemed like plenty of room ;)

My dearest friend Emma and her Husband Matt and babe are living there for the summer as well as the Missionary who Baptised me and his wife. A couple of Matt's Mission companions and their wives were in the area as well, SO I thought it would be a great opportunity to surprise them by showing up at their house. Too bad we got lost going through the Canyon and ended up in the Alpine loops Mountain Ha! All in all it was a great trip!

Starting with Marcus' first plane ride- he slept 2hrs on the way there and 2.5 hrs on the way home. Total flight was 3hrs and 25mins- Then we were luck enough to be sitting by a 4yr old ball of ENERGY little girl who sang, played peek-a-boo and told make believe stories to Marcus the rest of the way. I wanted to secretly film this little girl cause she was hilarious but Matt advised me not to do so :(



We had a ball enjoying time with great friends, food and real relaxation.

                                                       OH MARCUS- such a character!





We got to visit a couple Temples, Cafe Rio, BYU Creamery, Cheesecake Factory, did a couple hikes and relaxed.








What was really great is that Marcus had his little buddy William to play with most of the time.





 You know you're in UTAH when......
 Marcus slept GGRREEAAAT on this trip. Hitting around 12-13 hrs straight every night- no wakes, and 2 full naps during the day. Apparently a lot of babies sleep this long here-I thought 10-11 hrs was good! I wasn't complaining!

A lot of ppl have asked how he did being in the car so much. I would periodically go and sit with him in the back seat but he was usually too busy to spend time with mom. He would organize his mini books or articles of clothing for at least 45mins at a time.


Marcus hit a real Milestone while we were on Vacation. He started crawling on all fours(instead of army crawl which hes been doing for months), climes up on furniture, claps hands, points to the lights, raises hands to the ceiling when we say YAY, and is just all around more busier....and more FUN!

Thank you Emma, Matt, Mike and Lateesha- we had so much fun with you guys- till we meet again :)