Marriott Mountainside - Day#3

We were very impressed at all the activities they had planned at this Marriott Resort. The kids center always had things to do and toys for the kids to play with. This morning we went down and Zach picked out a ceramic piggy bank to paint. He chose a robot!

While we were in Park City Zach kept pointing out the local buses and said he wanted to go for a ride. So after the kid activities at the resort we rode the bus to downtown Park City (5 minute ride) for a street fair festival. The first thing we spotted was an airbrush tattoo booth. Zach picked out a dinosaur stencil and picked the colors green and black. The artists were surprised at how calm Zach was.....I guess they didn't know it was probably his 20th temporary tattoo and he had done airbrush before.


Right after Zach's tattoo was finished - he turned to Jen's mom and said, "grandma - you get the snake". Grandma got a big smile on her face and let Zach pick the color of the snake tattoo - he chose Pink and Black.....

Turned out pretty sweet, eh? Zach was all giggles and smiles when he saw what it looked like when it was done. The tattoo artist liked it so much he even took a picture of how it turned out! We roamed the streets looking at all the different booths, grabbed some lunch and then decided it was time to head back as the kids were ready for naps.

Once everyone had a bit of a rest - the women headed to the outlets for a bit of shopping while the boys had a bit more fun. Dustin took Zach on the Alpine slide. Zach was SO EXCITED to go on the chair lift and then go on the slide....he was a passenger on the slide with Dustin.

Of course Logan was being all cute...

We finished off the day with dinner at our favorite place in the newer part of Park City....

Marriott Mountainside - Day#2

Today was the day to hang out just outside the resort. It was the mountainside park area. They had an Alpine Slide, Alpine Coaster, a Zip Line, some kid rides and the chair lift. Dustin bought the all day pass so he could ride everything as much as he wanted. Jen bought a ticket for the Alpine Coaster.


Dustin taking the chair lift to go on the zip line...
Once he got to the zip line area there was quite a long wait....
Of course after waiting about an hour, who comes along and cuts in front of EVERYONE - Shaun White and his camera crew. I guess this is as close as we will get to seeing an Olympic gold medalist up close and personal!

Then it was time to hit the pool with the kids and Jen's parents. Our kids love water...so this was a perfect way to end the day!

Marriott Mountainside - Day#1

Time for a quick family getaway....we had one of our timeshare weeks to use and decided to head up to Park City (only 40 minute drive to the resort from our house). We stayed at Marriott's Mountainside Resort - literally right next to the alpine slide park area....nestled right next to the mountains. This was the view from our 2 bedroom villa:

The fall colors had already started changing and it was peaceful and just beautiful!! The villa itself was really sweet too. Jen's parents came with us so the 2 bedroom villa was the perfect size for four adults and our two kids. Here is one bedroom:

Here is the living room:

The kitchen/entryway (yes that is Logan chilling on the table):

Master bedroom:
HUGE tub in the master room with a separate shower/toilet room:

We arrived ~4pm. Just enough time to getting unpacked, explore the resort a bit, and find a Mexican food place for dinner! Logan LOVED his rice and beans at dinner.....

We are VERY impressed at what is available to do at this resort. They have activities scheduled all day long (for both kids and adults) at this place....we are kind of sad we are only staying for three nights -- we want to stay for the full week!! Zach had this HUGE smile on his face when we were walking into our villa.....you could tell he liked it. He keeps calling it his "home".

Utah State Fair

Today we hit up the Utah State Fair. We've been trying to go the last three years but this is the first year we actually made it! The weather cooperated - high of about 83 degrees today. We were a bit worried at the beginning of the day because this is what Zach's reaction was to EVERYTHING....

He was tired...but nothing a Capri Sun couldn't fix! Once the kid had some juice he was out and about exploring. We hit up the animals. Logan liked looking at the birds.

Jen liked this rabbit. It kind of looks like a lion.

And of course there were the cows....these cows were so pampered. They were getting shaved and bathed...I don't think we have ever seen such CLEAN COWS!

Zach got to ride this train....

And his cars....

Of course the choppers....

No fair is complete without foot long corn dogs! We all ate them for lunch.

After lunch it was time for the GIANT SLIDE!!! Dustin and Zach went THREE TIMES!

Logan started getting a bit jealous....he wanted to bust out of his stroller and have some fun too...

So we checked out the kid farm area. Logan got to ride an (stuffed) sheep:

Then it was time for tractors. I think Zach was the only person under the age of 30 looking at all the tractors and getting in them and such. He wouldn't sit in any one tractor for too long as the seats were so hot from being in the sun.

Logan started dazing.....and FINALLY fell asleep.

So we tried as best we could to use up the rest of our ride tickets. Jen and Zach went on the Ferris wheel.

Zach also swung the mallet at the muscle meter hammer game - the kid is strong ;) He was able to ring the bell!

We didn't last long after that.....we headed to the car (after 5 hours at the fair) and Zach was out in about five minutes.

We had an AWESOME time at the fair and were glad to have Jen's dad in town to go with us!

Tempanyaki

So this is what they mean by the saying "like father like son".....

What to do on a HOT day?!

Every weekend we drive down to Spanish Fork to check on the progress of the restoration of ThunderPig. On the freeway exit we take in Spanish Fork they have been building this huge park....water area and a big playground. We wondered if it would every get done before the weather started cooling down. Lucky for us it opened last weekend and we were able to stop and enjoy the park for a bit this afternoon.

Logan chilling with Grandma and Grandpa Twogood in the shade while Zach played on the playground.....

Zach going crazy wild a the water part....

Yeah - he LOVED it!

Don't let that shocked look on Logan's face worry you -- he LOVED it too!

Yeah - we will be going BACK!!!

Here is some video we took with our camera:

Corn corn and MORE corn!

We were given a huge bag full of fresh corn still on the cob. There was no way could eat all that corn in the next little bit so we decided to shuck it, cook it, cut it, bag it and freeze it for some food storage! While shucking the corn we found a little friend...

Yup! A very LARGE caterpillar. We were surprised that Zach actually wanted to touch it.....

Then he decided he needed to "keep" it. We put it in a bowl and he gave it some corn and some baby snacks that Logan eats.

Meanwhile we were busy getting that corn ready to bag. Just a quick few minutes in bowling water....
Then Glen used our electric knife to cut the corn off the cob.

Jen did the bagging. We ended up with about 20 sandwich sized bags of corn.

YUM! Free corn....a caterpillar...what more could you ask for?

Logan is CRAWLING!!

It may just be the army crawl...but he is MOBILE!