Summer Visitors

This summer we had a lot of visitors!  We love visitors anytime!  Our situation makes traveling a bit precarious so when people come here we LOVE it!  Spen's parents came and spent a few weeks and overlapping with them his sister, Karrie, and her kids came for a week.  Our kids were in heaven.  As you can see, a campout sleepover in the basement was a must!!!

The kids all cuddled into the tent and watched Swiss Family Robinson and had a fun sleepover.

One of the days everyone was here we made a drive to the Olympic Park.  The kids enjoyed it, but it was FREEZING!  No idea why it was so cold in the summer, but we spent a lot of time in the museum to make the drive worth it.

All the kids who made the trip!

Mase was the one who HATED the fun of the crowd.  He usually does.  I took him on a walk for a while just the 2 of us to calm him down.  He enjoyed the sights and the exhibits of the Winter Olympics.  Here he is carrying the Olympic torch! 

He also had to see the medal case.  This is just a taste of the photo shoot that poor Mason had to endure while spending his time alone with me and my camera in a museum!!

Sleep Over with Mase..

It's no secret that I'm not a camper.  I kind of feel bad that I don't push it - at all - but I still help the kids have campouts at home!  That's something, right?  Ethan is so great to always want to include his brothers.  Ez was definately not invited to this sleepover, (suffocation risk and him climbing out too much) but Ethan didn't want to camp in his tent without Mase!  We set his tent up in his room and he slept there for a few nights.  Mase was too excited to stay in the tent.  He would just yell and giggle and roll around to stroke the sides of the tent to make a funny scratchy sound.  Fun play buddy, but not so good for sleeping!

Ethan is always thinking of fun ideas to do at home..

Here's trouble!

So this is actually a common sighting at our house...  Ez is into and eating everything he can find on the floor!  Not something that I love, but still isn't this adorable?

He was SOO proud of himself!  He was the happiest kid to have an entire floor full of treats to himself.  This was taken in the summer, but just too cute not to put up still!

The Alpine Slides.

When Spen was around one afternoon we decided to take Ethan to the Alpine Slides.  He was thrilled.  It was a lot of fun for them.  They had a great time.

They are really experienced 'lift riders' from what Ethan tells me.  They went skiing with their season passes all last winter.  I got to ride the roller coaster, so this time I sat out for the Alpine Slide and hung with the other 2 boys at the bottom.

Waving 'bye' to me.

Mase was quite a show for the crowd at the bottom of the hill waiting.  He was very upset and only wanted to listen to his "High School Musical" tunes in his headphones.  Once he was all set up and had a captive audience he was happy and would randomly giggle at his music.

Ez just knocked out.  He had a great nap in the shade with his anmal friends to keep him company.

The after shot.  I hear it was pretty awesome.  Ethan's last year having to ride with a grown-up!  Oh goody.

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!