Great weekend.

We had a fun weekend with my mom and stepdad in town and spending time as a family. Friday afternoon we went swimming at their hotel and that night we went to dinner at the Red Iguana in Salt Lake. Saturday morning we decided to take a little hike up a hill that is really close to our house. The kids LOVED it.

 Indie was a trooper the whole way up. He just kept going and going. I think he could have gone for several miles if it came to that. He is a natural hiker.

 The view from the top was beautiful.

The only problem we had with Indie was when it was time to head back down and he wanted to keep going. Where he thought he was going, I don't know, since we were at the top. This is him throwing a fit while I carried him back down.

Later that day we spent some time with my mom's family at my grandma's house and that night Scott surprised me with a group date with some of our friends in the neighborhood. We had a blast going to Thanksgiving Point for dinner and cruising the beautiful gardens they have there. Sunday brought dinner at our place with all the cousins playing with their uncles and having Papa Jim read them books. What a wonderful weekend!

Parkisms

I don't know if it's just this age or what, but as quiet as Park was when he was younger he sure is making up for it now. The other day we had the Superior Water guy come out to check some things and the whole time he was here Park would not stop talking to me. I was making cookies and lunch at the same time and Park had pulled up a chair to "help" which really means to watch. Every so often I would hear the Superior guy chuckling because Park was so non-stop. It went something like this: "Mom, you're scooping the cookies, huh. Then you're going to put it here, huh. Then it's going to cook in the oven and get ready to eat, huh. Those cookies in the oven are getting ready right now, huh. Those ones on the counter are ready, huh. I'm going to eat one after I eat my quesadilla, huh. Are you cooking my quesadilla yet?" His talking is a constant stream of observations and he will say the same thing several times in a row until you acknowledge what he has said. (Notice the "huh" at the end of every sentence. If you don't say something after his "huh" that's when he repeats himself.)

And of course, with so much talking some pretty funny things come out of his mouth. Today he was talking to a friend when he said. "Hey Corbin, watch how fast I can run! I can run fast because I ate vegetables once!" He ate a total of about 10 pieces of carrots and corn a few days ago and he still thinks he can run fast because of them. Maybe I should tell him that they wear off everyday and that to run faster he has to eat them EVERY day.