Mini Vacation

 Since I used most of my time off for maternity leave I did not have a lot of vacation time this summer.  We decided to go on a mini vacation instead.  Last Sunday(the 5th) we took off after church and headed down to Utah.  We had a night booked at Wolf Creek outside of Ogden.  When we got to the condo we got changed and headed down to the pool.  The boys really wanted to go swimming.  We got down there and got into the pool.  Earlier this summer we bought some arm floaties for the two older boys to help them stay afloat.  Last time we went swimming they were very clingy/needy and we thought these my help.  Jonathen quickly found out that his arm floaties helped him stay above the water and that he could go out farther into the water than he could before.  Wesley took some convincing.  By the time we finally got out of the water Jonathen would float on his back and swim forward and Wesley had even gone down the water slide. The slide was for ages 3-13 so Jon couldn't go down the slide.  Nate even started "swimming".  He would reach out with his arms and bring them back to his body like I was trying to get his older brothers to do.  The next morning we got up and packed up.  We then headed to the dinosaur park in Ogden.  They have fossils inside, a robotic dinosaur display and many dinosaur statues around the park. We walked around the park and showed the boys the dinosaurs and told them about those dinosaurs.  After the dinosaur park we went and got lunch and then headed to The Treehouse Museum.  The Treehouse Museum is built around a tree and has different exhibits and projects that the kids get to do.  There was a farm with horses for the boys.  Wesley watched me show Jon how to get on his horse using the stirrups and got up on his horse all by himself.  He is growing up so fast.  There was an oval office with different facts about all of the past and present U.S. presidents.  There was a superhero station and even a castle with knights and a sword in the stone.  Wesley especially loved that section of the museum.  After the museum we got back in the car and headed home.  It wasn't a big vacation, but we did get to do some really fun things.