Last weekend was UEA. For those of you not living in Utah, that’s the Utah Education Association “holiday” where the kids get Thursday-Monday off of school. And roughly half of the population of Utah goes south to the Happiest place on earth. We, ourselves have done Disney over UEA before, but hopefully we won’t be that stupid in the future. So, we enjoyed our vacation here at home. And we had a good time.

We:
–Went to the Zoo, which by looking at the parking lot, you would think that everyone who didn’t go to Disneyland went to the zoo, but once you are inside it wasn’t that crowded.
–Went to a movie. Barnyard. Take my advice and don’t waste your time or money on it, unless you are 5 years old.
–Went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house to fix Grandpa’s computer.
–Cole went up to his friend’s cabin for the weekend.
–The kids played with cousins while Mom and Dad went out to dinner with some neighborhood friends.
–Went to church (nothing new there, but I just thought I’d include it on our list. It was 3 hours of exhausting work for me, however. Ryan didn’t go because of an allergy attack, so it was me and 4 kids (no Cole) squished in not enough bench space with John on my lap for the entire sacrament meeting–ugh! Then I go sucked into the nursery because there were only 2 adults and 18 kids.)
–Went to the mall to have the kids’ pictures taken. Don’t ask me why that experience takes four hours, but it does. But they turned out cute. Here’s proof.
–Went to Boondocks, where we drove bumper boats, soaking each other in the process (great for a chilly day, wouldn’t you say?), rode go-carts, played miniature golf, played laser tag (Cole did that one 6 times, I think) and did lots of arcade things. The best part was that I didn’t pay a dime for the 7 of us because I had won some free passes and gift certificates!
–Oh, and we got a new pet. A turtle that Cole thinks he’s calling Rachael. Rachael? For a turtle? I’m trying to convince him that Rachael is not the proper name for a turtle, and I keep calling it other things when I walk by and say hi to it, but it might actually stick.

So, how was your weekend?