Watch out- when the Mower's get together, you never know what might happen. In this case, it was a wedding. (welcome to the fam Peter) I guess I should have put in a pic of the happy couple- but this one was my favorite.
Since the kids sat in the car for 10 hours and didn't even go to the wedding, we decided to do some fun stuff for them too. Temple Square is always a favorite, so we took the kids there after dinner. I have so many special memories of feeling a quiet reverence on temple grounds as a child and I would love my children to have these same types of testimony-building experiences. Unfortunately, I must not have realized (silly me) we'd been in the car all day and now it was nearly bedtime. Needless to say-I'm not sure my kids were feelin' the spirit- or anyone within shouting distance of where we were.
Okay- maybe I am not giving them enough credit. They did surprisingly well inside the VC- except for the part where you listen to the dialogue and look at the Christus- Zack was hurdling the benches and Lucas was fussing, Lex & Kobe were bugging each other, and Brooklyn was standing up next to the sister missionary who was tearfully bearing her testimony doing poses and saying "mom take my picture!" I wonder what Jeff was doing... I don't remember because I was so embarassed I was in the back pretending they weren't my kids
Saturday we surprised everyone by going to Lagoon. Man, I haven't been there since I was a kid!! After the night before I was mentally preparing myself for one of 3 things: a day of fighting and meltdowns, loosing a kid or two, or watching everyone go on rides and have fun while I wore Lucas and tried to pacify Zack and Payters since they couldn't ride the rides. To my utter shock- we had so much fun!! I was so glad the oldest 4 could do most of the rides- and Payter was a good sport about not doing everything since we took her on the freaky merry-go-round and she hated it. Lexie and Kobe even rode Collossus (however u spel it) although Lexie had no idea what she was standing in line for until she was headed up the 1st hill. Jeff had to tell her it might be too late to back out. I got to do lots of rides too because lucky for me Jeff gets sick on anything spinny. (Don't take that wrong hunny) 
You want to know the highlight of the day? Cotton Candy! Wow we should have saved ourselves a bumload of $$$ and just grabbed some at a convenience store on the way home.
After all the candy and sugar- I was SO relieved to see there was a dentist nearby! Payter even had cavities on her FINGERS!
Look Grandpa N! It's a pioneer pharmacy! And look at the cute Technician! I bet she'd draw you lots of business!I even ran into Lori and Joe right before we left- which just topped off a great day. All in all, I'd have to say, I LOVED Lagoon. WOW. And- I'm thinkin' that probably bought us some time-- now we can put off Disneyland a little longer, right?
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Looks like lots of fun. We just went on Saturday. I guess we just missed ya by a week.
We just went this last Saturday... darn the luck!! I had not been in 10 years and I wanted a really fun day so Bry and I left our boys home, but when I got there I was SO surprised at how many rides they have for little ones that the parents can go on with them. I felt bad for leaving them at first, but then when Bry and I were able to ride all those fun crazy rides and have a fun alone time day it was great!!!
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