Surviving an eventful weekend!

So this past weekend was pretty eventful. My best friend Laurie's daughter turned 1 year old on Friday and there was a party on Saturday. We decided to go up Friday night and stay at a hotel and take advantage of the pool! Thanks to my little sister Laura, who works for Holiday Inn in Rocksprings, we got the room at a great price! So we called Laurie her husband and her daughter Kalala and my other best friend Lacie to come over for Pizza and swimming. We had so much fun! We all met in the room and the kids had fun getting to know one another. At one point Aden had Kalala cornered and was giving her kisses! She wasn't real sure about that untill she got out of the corner and She got Aden stuck in the corner and kissed him! He didn't mind one little bit. Then once the pizza came we took it all down to the pool and swam until the kids were cold and the pool was closed. But poor Laurie had to swim the whole time with her hand out of the water because she had surgery just last week:( But she was a real trouper and I think fun was had by all regardless.

So cute together and they loved the attention so much they just kept giving eachother kisses!

Lacie holding Kalala and Aden

Chris is just one of the kids at heart!

Laurie with Kalala and Me with Aden

We got a family hug and kiss all in one!

I hate the way I look in this picture but it has us all together, with the exception of Laki (Laurie's husband) and Chris. I think by then the kids were cold, which is why Aden is making the funny face:)

We had so much fun at Kalala's party the next day! The party was great! There was food and all kinds of new faces and people and that wasn't even the half of it! The park where the party was had all kinds of playground toys and fun stuff and a water feature that was so cool! It sprayed water at all different angles and had parts that were big jets of water and others that just misted and every thing in between! Aden didn't really like playing in it himself but he got the bigest kick out of watching every one else play in it. We took him in the water a couple times but he pretty well screamed the whole time:)! I guess our fish only likes the water that is standing still! His favorite part of the park was a giant sculpture of a turtle that he got to sit on. He patted the turtle on the head and gave it hugs. It was so cute....he even says turtle now! Well he says "Curcle" but that is his word for turtle.

After the party we visited a really cool Aquarium on the way home! Since Aden is such a fan of Finding Nemo and all fish really, we figured he would have a blast! Oh and he did. I have to appologize in advance these pictures are not great, I took them with my phone. Apperently my camera got left on after taking pictures the night before and it didn't work when it came time to take pictures....turns out it just needed a little rest because I got it out this morning to upload pictures and the battery was still full.....I was so dissapointed....I guess we will just have to go back soon!

Aden was so facinated by all the tanks full of beautiful fish! (this one was full of sharks! Yikes!)

We all took turns petting the sting rays in the tank....(Aden couldn't quite reach but he got really wet splashing around "trying" anyways)

There was an exhibit where Aden got to steer and play with the controls of a boat! Luckily it was all fake so we didn't crash or anything.

They had the cutest play area where kids could play around crawl through tunnels and look at fish tanks down at their level. Aden found one tank that had all Clown fish and he just stood there pointing and smileing and saying "Nemo!" "Nemo!" He was so excited he could have stood there for hours I think!

The gift shop had a huge model of "Bruce" from Finding Nemo and Chris tried to get him to eat Aden...Just kidding we wanted Aden to get a good look at him because he was one of Aden's favorite characters off the movie starting from when he was little tiny!

We found a few stuffed "Nemo" clown fish in the gift shop. Aden grabbed as many as he could handle and snuggled them close to him......pretty well saying "Daddy I want them ALL!"
I guess the best pictures we got at the aquarium were the ones in the photo booth! Aden didn't really get the concept and Chris had a hard time being seriouse but it was a fun way to get a picture of all of us for the scap book!

After the Aquarium we made a short stop in Provo to visit a best friend of Chris's Jeremy. And then we got on the road for home! I think by the end, we had sooo much fun but we were ready to be home sweet home again!

Next time we go up North I hope to make it to the Zoo and maybe the aquarium again. We don't get up there very often and have to squeeze as much as we can into each trip! And I will make sure my Camera is working so I can get loads of pictures!