Utah - Lagoon

I went to Utah for a girls' weekend and then the rest of the family joined me for a vacation with our friends the Phillips. Ken not only watched the kids while I was gone, but he hosted his parents and packed the kids for the trip and drove them all the way to Utah. He is Amazing!  We rented a home in the Salt Lake City area. We have been friends with the Phillips for a long time now and it is amazing how the kids can pick up their friendship.  One the first day together, we went to Lagoon.  It was our kids' first time on roller coasters.

Chase was sad he couldn't go with the big kids. He really wanted to go on the bigger rides. We eventually found some rides that were a bit more thrilling and made him happy (he is a brave kid). Here he is on the kiddie rides he thought were just not thrilling enough.

Ava really wanted to do this ride. The line was longish and really slow, so I tried to talk her out of it, but it was all she could talk about. Hope it lived up to her expectations.

Bumper cars were hilarious. The first time I had Ava ride with Chase but Chase forgot to let Ava have a turn steering. Ava was completely devastated. The next time they got their own cars. Ava started pretty good but was soon spinning in circles and couldn't figure out why. I tried yelling from the side to try and help her but it was no use. All of the other rides she has been on do everything for you even though you pretend to steer so I think she was a bit surprised when she actually had control of the car.

After awhile in the hot sun, we met up and spent a little time at the water park.

Kailyn

Jenessa

Buddies Taiya and Jordan

Caden an Taevin drying off so they can go and do some more roller coasters.

Jordan and Taiya

Some of us got really wet on this ride.

While others some how missed the majority of the water.

One ride the kids loved was the roller coaster. The three oldest, Kailyn, Jordan and Caden, did it a few times. We had to pull them from it in order to go and get some dinner (it was way after dinner time), they didn't care about dinner they just wanted to do it over and over again.