Spring Break- Day Four

We had a long day on Thursday. We got up really early so we could drive to Ogden to visit my sister in law and her girls. They have lived in Utah for several months now, but have recently purchased a home and I wanted to go see their house and let the kids have fun playing with their cousins. Jason was sad that my brother wasn't there because he was hoping to go disc golfing with him like the last time they came to our house. He was somewhat placated when he saw that Jim had the game Rock band. He and Emily had fun playing it and it was so fun to see them getting into it. One song Em was on guitar and she was tapping her foot and shaking her hip and Jason was on the drums and he was bobbing his head in time with the music. It was really fun to watch. Drums were a lot harder than Jason thought they would be so he went back to guitar and he was showing off his skills a bit.

Liam had a great time exploring his new surroundings and being "loved by his cousins. Then he somehow scraped the corner of his eye on a book shelf and was a little Momma's boy after that.

After we finished visiting we headed to downtown SLC to visit Dad at work and to have lunch with him. The kids enjoyed the cafeteria style choices since they could pick whatever they wanted to eat. We headed up to see Jason's new office on the 27th floor and the kids and I got a bit dizzy looking down out the window because of how high we were.

Dad left work early to spend the rest of the day with us. We started by having him give us a behind the scenes tour of the Conference center. Because of his job his badge gets him into the offices/control rooms under the conference center where they film stuff for sending via sattelite. He showed us the control room where they control all the cameras for General conference and then we got to go under/behind the stage and organ. It was cool to see that they can raise and lower the stage as needed. Then the kids wanted to go up and see what the organ looked like up close so we went up on the stage. I kept waiting for one of the normal tour guides to tell us to get off the stage, but they never did. The kids thought it was pretty cool. After that we headed to the cemetery where the kids wanted to find President Hinckley's headstone (we did find it, but I didn't get a picture). We got a map with a whole bunch of prophets/apostles/notable people and found a few of them.

On the way home we stopped to pick up the kids' new glasses so they could both see again. We decided to give Liam a break from his car seat and put him in the cart for the first time. Of course I had to take a picture. It was a great day! :)