Friday, April 27, 2007

Catching up...

We went to Utah for Easter Weekend. OK, not exactly for Easter, but that weekend. We went for Grandma Smith's 80th birthday party. They had a great turnout with an Easter Egg hunt, family dinner, and reception after, all at the local church building. We saw cousins that we didn't recognize anymore and the people we did recognize just looked a lot older :) For the Easter egg hunt they had an area for the little ones and eggs hidden everywhere for the older ones. Even on top of the security light over the door (must have been 10 feet up). There was enough family there to fill the church gym for dinner.

On Sunday, Stan headed back home in the car we inherited, and I stayed with the Suburban and the kids. We had a partial Doan family reunion Sunday night--Jenny and Bruce (my siblings) and their families came to Mom's for dinner. It was great seeing you all again :)

Jenny and her two youngest stayed overnight so that we could all goto Hogle Zoo on Monday. We hadn't thought about the fact that there was no school that day and the zoo might be packed--and it was. It was fun anyway. That night we met Bruce and his family to see the new Joseph Smith movie at temple square. It was great. I hope to see more of it next time (without a 6yo son :).

Tuesday we spent relaxing with Grandma Sarah and Grandpa, and Wednesday we explored temple square. Thursday we went to the planetarium and saw a movie about taking a cardboard box spaceship to all the planets in the solar system. Joe and Sarah loved the movie. Joe was particularly impressed that they showed the movie on the domed ceiling.

Friday we spent in Logan with Jenny and her family. We just went to the park and let the cousins play. This was my kids favorite day out of all that we did. We'll have to do this again.

And Saturday we came home :) It's good to be home.

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