Utah for the Holidays

The morning after Christmas we headed up to Utah to spend the rest of our holiday with the Jennings family! We actually flew the new Allegiant Airline - Mesa to Provo flight - which was a new experience. It wasn't necessarily closer to either of our parents houses but the price was right!

We woke up the kids and put them right in the car, Jackson thought it was so funny to be on an airplane in jammies. But when we got to Utah we were welcomed by Grandpa along with Great- Grandma & Grandpa Harline. Jackson and Grandpa picked up right where they left off..

When we got to their house (and every morning while we were there) we discovered there were some dinosaurs getting into trouble. This day they were on the counter eating some cereal, and then every morning Jackson would wake up so excited to see where the dinosaurs were. 

Those silly dinosaurs...

The trip was full of family, food and fun! It was pretty dang cold the whole time we were there and while there was snow on the ground, no new snow fell while we were there so we didn't play outside much at all.

The one night we bundled up we went to the SLC Temple lights with the whole crew!

Pretending that my teeth weren't chattering...

Jackson calls the SLC Temple the "Castle Temple"

Most of the time we spent in the Jennings warm house running around with cousins! Abbie & Norah had lots of fun playing this little piggy with grandma!

Abbie loves ring-around-the-Rosie!

Our own "Christmas Eve" Nativity

We had a blast at Airborne one evening

One night we all went out on a date and had some babysitters come watch the kids. We had amazing Thai food and then headed over to Target to buy the best thing for $5 then had a white elephant gift exchange. This bunny pajama onesie was the hit of the night.

Travis and Alise found the best prize of the night!

We LOVED getting to spend a couple days with Great-Grandma Jennings!

Singing songs as we put the kids to sleep

Most of the crew in Chipotle for New Years Eve

Jackson loved the building truck set he got for Christmas!

Our first trip to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple

We just had to make sure Abbie didn't eat all the cookie dough...

When things would get boring or the kids would get too rowdy, they'd make cookies with Grandma!

The three big kids :)

Probably the biggest hit of Christmas was the trampoline for upstairs!

The last couple days, before we left Utah, we spent up in SLC with Papa & Nana. I didn't take too many pictures since I forgot my camera and phone was full but we had lots of fun! We went out to dinner, lunch, a basketball game, and the hit was the Utah Natural History Museum aka dinosaurs!

While Jackson doesn't see them too often he always remembers and warms right up to his Papa and Nana. Abbie did great too and sat on both their laps and would go to them easily.

Jackson totally embraced the U of U cheers! He still occasionally yells GO UTAH!

Jackson kept stealing Papa's chair so Nana made it his own :)

 It was a great trip!! We are so lucky to have been able to spend so much time with all our family out there. We're already excited to go back again this summer :)