Temple Trip

This past friday was great. We did some fun things, laughed, ate well, spent good time together as a family, and like always had something happen that seems like it would only happen to us...

First of all, Belem wanted to go to the mall and check out some sales that were going on (she has become quite the savy shopper - I think that she has evey phone app that exists for coupons, deals, etc) So, we headed out, and on the way she had a craving for gas station nachos...ok, so we go to the gas station and pick some up, I also grab some almonds and a protein bar for myself. Then she realizes that the sales are not going on until August, so now we don't have a plan...what should we do? Since we were already heading north, we decided it would be fun to go up to Temple Square in Salt Lake. We start driving and Belem decides she wants to try the new Mcdonalds pinneable mango smoothie. Ok...so now we are laughing cause its friday night, and so far we feel pretty white trash, gas station nachos, and mcdonalds. hahaha.

We finally make it all the way up to Salt Lake, we park and begin walking around. I must say that our white trash evening quickly changed themes, and became a very enjoyable and fun evening. We walked around the temple, went to the family themed visitors center, and then took the tour of Brigham Youngs house. It was pretty fun, even though Gabriel decided that he wanted to make tons of noises, burp, and demand his little cereals the entire time. We really did enjoy it!

After walking around some more we sat down by the reflection pool that is next to the temple and just relaxed. The hot sun was finally setting and so the evening was becoming very nice. Gabriel was a little hesitent at first about the water but quickly acclimated himself by splashing and playing like crazy. Babies are a blast, but you really have to be careful, especially with our little Gabriel. He is so stinking quick and funny. As he was playing he just threw himself out of my arms and went face first into the water, luckily I grabbed him before he could even realize that he was scared. Then we went and played some more in the grass and he continued to crawl all over the place and eat almost eveything in his sight. Again, we took our eye off of him for a second and he took advantage of his second of freedom and grabed his entire bowl of cereals and attempted to eat them all at once. Man, he is so freakin cute!

So, tired and hungry now that our white trash meal from earlier had worn off, we decided to head over to Red Robin (yeah I know, alot better higher quality food choice eh?) to get something to eat. Again the weather was perfect and so we asked for a table outside. Gabriel got comfortable in his high chair and quickly began to devour the adults menu, then the kids menu, then some crackers, then anything else that he could reach. Belem orderd off the kids (10 and under) menu, and I got something from the correct menu...hahaha...so we ate and relaxed, enjoyed the weather and the time together as a little family.

Right next to the Red Robin is a movie theater and stores, so we went walking around. It was so comfortable just walking and talking. Then we headed over to target and bought Gabriel a new little car toy and laughed about how our fun, and enjoyable night had included eating food at a gas station, mcdonalds, and spending time at target! It was pretty funny. So, now tired from our long evening, we headed back home. It is always funny to us how almost without fail we tend to go to bed late every night, and then come the weekends we are so tired from the entire week that we are usually in bed much sooner than during the week. It was like 10 or 10:30 when we were getting ready for bed!

So, the funny, not so funny, actually really frustrating part to all of this is that the following morning, we getting ready to leave to go to the park when we realized that we didn't have our stroller! Yeah, we...I...must have either not loaded it into the car for some reason, or someone stole it out of our car during the night! We don't know, but it is so frustrating, cause it was a great stroller, and a very nice and expensive one. Oh well, stuff happens I guess, so now Gabriel has some cheap ol $15 one from wal mart that doesn't even lay down....so sad.

However even after losing, or leaving the stroller behind, even after eating so well the entire night, even though we were so tired and were in bed sooner than normal, I wouldn't have changed anything! I love my family, my beautiful, loving, supportive wife Belem, our crazy crawling all over the place, never full, or completly quiet son Gabriel, and now the starting to make mommy show some tummy, Nathan Elijah (yeah that will be his middle name). I love them all, and loved this last friday too!