Weekend in Salt Lake

With the kids out of school last Friday, we took the opportunity to head down to Salt Lake and spend a few days together. We did have to come home on Saturday evening because Lindsay wanted to have a few friends over to hang out for her birthday which was Sunday. We did a lot of fun things and we all enjoyed it.
We stopped at the reflection pool in front of the Salt Lake temple. This picture is out of order but Jace couldn't be happier about the food he was able to eat at the Little America restaurant, we ate there twice since we were staying there it was convenient. Here he is posing with Baylie and his waffle.

We wandered around temple square. Jace was just a baby the last time we took the opportunity to actually stop and walk around.

We ventured up to the 26th floor of the church office building for a panoramic view of the city. Here I am with Jace, Salt Lake temple and tabernacle behind us.

The capitol building, from the church office building.

The temple and tabernacle....

Our cute kids......

Me and Chris......

We went to the visitors center. Here are the kids with the Christus.

Baylie and Jace stopped to pose with Joseph Smith.

We took the tour of the conference center......

Our tour guide took us right down to the front where the pulpit is. She told us all kinds of stories about the conference center and we enjoyed this tour a ton. She even told us the seats we were sitting in are the same spot that President Monson sits during performances. I decided that I was probably the one sitting in his seat!

She took a picture of all of us, in the Friberg painting room. This is a room full of original paintings from Arnold Friberg. Most of the paintings are depicted from stories in the Book of Mormon.

On the roof of the conference center in front of the fountain.

Of course we had to swim in the pool at Little America...... Here's Ali and Emily playing around.

Ali showing off her 'starfish' float.

Chris with Ali, Baylie and Jace. Emily isn't too far in the background.

Emily and Ali, still playing around.

Lindsay and Kenna headed to the hot tub!

Emily, Lindsay and Kenna in the elevator heading out to gateway to do some shopping.

We shopped until Chris dropped!! These are but a few of the bags he had to carry around for us, he's still smiling at this point!

Of course you can't go to Utah without stopping at Nielsen's Frozen Custard! Caramel Cashew...... DELICIOUS!!! We actually stopped on our way into town and again on our way back to Idaho Falls (who knows when we'll get there again).

This was such a fun little get away. Too bad it wasn't to warmer weather but we still enjoyed each other and that's what was important!