At the Pool and Activity Center...

Another fun thing about the place we stayed was that there were constantly activites for the kids to do.  The activity center was located at the indoor pool area.  It was perfect for us.  I took Ezra's pack-n-play there everyday and set up camp.  Ethan was able to do all of the activities and I could help him out a little.  Ez chilled in his play spot and Mase watched from his chair!  It made for a good way to take turns swimming with the 2 non-swimmers.  One of them was trapped and safe while the other was in the pool.  (Spen was working a lot and couldn't come to help me with all of this!  I had to improvise!)

This is at the table we would claim 1st thing everyday when we would get there.  Mase and Ez were so good and really great sports to enjoy the situation they were handed!  I would have been a wreck if this plan hadn't panned out!

Mase and Ez liked to play together this way. It was better because they were close enough to interact, but not too close to bug each other!

Ez was good enough to nap part of the time too.  What an angel!

Fun and darling!

This is where Ethan could be found the ENTIRE time!  He was a fish.  He loved the pool.  It was about 3 feet deep throughout the entire thing.  Half of it was indoor and the other was outdoor.  There was a really nice older man that was in charge of running the activity center that would play with him when I was out with the other two kids.  He was in heaven.

The other thing he is good at is making friends with the kids and people around him.  He and another family played 'basketball' with their ball and his floaty for hours one day.

One of the last days the kid's cousins came up to visit and had a cheeto picnic on the deck and went swimming in the hot tub with us.  We also all rode the people mover that was running.  Too involved with kid care to get any photos of that!

Kids on our Trip...

This is Ethan while he is planning his swimming time in the hot tub.  He was so elated that we had our own 'warm pool' to swim in in our room!  We turned the temp down a bit so that he could swim.

And swim he did!  He swam for his diving rings and for all sorts of pool toys.  It was perfect for him and for me.  I had two kiddos that needed to spend a lot of time in the hotel room, boring for Ethan, so we had the perfect solution for him to have a good time!

I am not so much a light packer when I am going places with my kids.  Especially here where I knew what kind of space we were going to have and I also knew that I would be on my own with 3 kids while Spen worked during the day.  That would explain Ezra snacking in his high chair!  We took everything.

All Mason really had to figure out was where he could play doors.  It took him a while to figure out where the doors were, (and they were heavy!) but once he did he camped out there!

Ethan was so amazed that the Walmart there had a life sized lego Star Wars Clone figure.  Of course we had to take a picture of him with it!

Our Amazing Hotel Room

While we were in Park City we stayed in the Presidential Suite. It was amazing!!! Things weren't supposed to work out that way, but we lucked out and that's where they put us. Here are a bunch of shots of where we stayed!!

The Kitchen:

The Dining Room:

The Kid's Bedroom:

The Wet Bar:

Another Table Sitting Area:

The Master Bedroom:

The Patio:

The Deck area and Hot Tub:

Our View:

Basically it was SWEET!!  We had such a good time and never had to leave the hotel for any fun our activities to do.  We loved our summer vacation together!

Olympic Park

This summer our family trip together was a week in Park City, Utah. We had a lot of fun spending so much time together. We went to seen the Olympic Park one of the days we were there and this is a bit of what we saw...
There are always people practice at the pools. We love watching. Ethan has decided that he is going to be an aerialist on his skis.There were a lot of beginners and intermediate jumpers, but there was one girl that was pretty darn good. I took a lot of pictures when she jumped!

Not something I would try...


Just cool to watch! Unusual...

We were lucky enough that the big air jumpers were practicing the same day so we walked down the hill to see what they were doing. Spen and I came to this event during the SLC 2002 Olympics. It was pretty cool. Practicing on the plastic jumps and grass was pretty fun to see too. If you look close enough you can see the guy that jumped on the right side...



Mason was surprisingly in a great mood to go and see the skiers! He thought it was funny when they would woosh by from the big K-120 jumps onto the grass!

Ethan was mesmerized by it all! He had no idea that there was such a thing as these sports and that you could practice them in the summer! How awesome is that! He was ready to sign up to try it. Too bad we didn't have the funds this year. We're saving up for next year though!

Spen and I have been there several times, but we have never seen the K-90 or K-120 jumps when we've been there so that was a fun treat to see! We were entertained for a few hours just watching.

Ezra helping me with Laundry...

There is one thing about my Ezra that is both adorable and extremely tiresome! He LOVES to be at my heels. He follows me around and has to participate in everything that I am doing. I love that he wants to be with me and play all the time, I really do. It is a bit difficult to get anything done around here though! I was getting the laundry from the dryer to fold and there was Ezra, climbing up my legs smiling and bouncing so happy and excited! That meant a ride in the laundry basket for him to be with me!

He was so happy about it. He just sat there happy as can be. I folded a bunch of other laundry first and he didn't mind. He just jung out watching me - buried in my laundry!

He is such I great mild tempered kid. I am not kidding... He sat there for 10 minutes without anything other than a smile on his face watching me fold towels! Then the camera came out and he smiled some more!

He stayed in there tossing out laundry to me until I was finished. Then of course he crawled around following me while I put it all away. Love him..

Swimming Lessons 2009 -- Mason!

This year for the 1st time Mason was able to take swimming lessons!!

We put him in adaptive swimming lessons at the new pool by our house. It was a brand new thing and he was one of 2 kids to participate this season.

He loved it so much we signed him up for a second session a few weeks after the first one.

They didn't really expect to offer this special kind of lesson this year, but they did a great job. Mason's teacher was actually the pool manager. She was so darling. We loved her. She's the reason we came back for a second session

Normal lessons went from 8:00 am to 11:30 am and the pool opened to the public at noon. Mason's lessons were held from 11:30 to noon. That meant that he and his teacher and the other little boy and his teacher were the only 4 people in the pool! The 2nd session Ethan's lesson's were just before Mason's so she let Ethan swim with them. That session they were the only 3 people in the pool! It was so much fun for the boys. They both loved it.

Mason LOVED the water soooo much. He got so excited even as we would walk into the pool area. He had so much fun. They did super special things for them. They went down the slide everyday! Mason loved that too.

He was so excited especially the 2nd time they would go on the slide. Then he knew what to expect.

He's a super flirt and very charming. He had his teacher in love with him after the first 10 minutes in the pool!

I really hope they offer this again next year, and that the teacher is as amazing. She made Mason's summer!