Grandma's Funeral Trip

I don't do spontaneous things.  Ever.  

So getting to Utah with only a couple of days notice, and then having to come back and jump right into a wedding (see next post)--WOWZA!  This week just about took me out.  But we made it!

We drove to Utah on Monday. We spent that night at my parents.  Got up the next day and headed to Logan.  We spent the day at the cheese factory, swimming in the hotel pool, eating at Chuck O Rama, learning that my brother Dave is getting married this week (and then having a celebration this summer in Barcelona), and going to Grandma Louise's viewing.  Derek took the kids to a movie after a little while at the viewing.  After the viewing, my sister and two of my favorite cousins spent a few hours catching up at Taco Time.  (Fulfilling pumpkin pie empanada fantasies for my cousin Wesley!)  

We slept that night at the Marriott in Logan.  In the morning we loaded up the van, went to the funeral (which was very lovely!) ate lunch with the family at the church, at hit the road again.

Homeward Bound!

We drove to Baker City and stayed at the Best Western.  Libby: "Mom, this doesn't look as nice as where we stayed last night."  Ha.  Yeah.  Not quite the Marriott.  We watched an episode of Property Brothers and went to bed.  The room may have been so so, but the breakfast was awesome.  After breakfast we made the final leg of the trip.  We pulled back into Seattle just in time to shower, change, and get to the first wedding rehearsal.  Exhausted.  But so happy we went.   

In the car Derek and I listened to a mystery novel that was so so.  Then we listened to most of Think Like a Freak  by the authors of Freakonomics.   It was AWESOME.

The kids listened to Evil Spy School, The Lemonade War, The Lemonade Crime, & started Floors.  They also watched several movies in the car.  Not so much of doing homework. Oops.  Had to cram that in tonight.  

The kids were super excited to play with cousins!  

Swimming!

This is a picture of my grandma & grandpa with their oldest 3 kids that I had never seen.  They are standing, (we think), right where my parents house is now.  That house in the background is our neighbor's house.   

All the sibs together.

Everyone we could corral for a moment.  Not as pretty as the pics we got 2 weeks ago.  But it was fun to get together again!

3 kids, one king bed.  You can imagine there was some arguing and flailing about before they settled down for the night.