Temple Square

This weekend Jason, Owen and I went to Salt Lake to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square. It started snowing Friday morning and Jason was thinking that maybe we should stay home. We have been really excited about going all week, so i told him no way. We left pretty early and the roads were pretty bad. It took us two hours to get to Centerville. We have both lived in these winter conditions our whole lives, Jason is an excellent driver and I felt completely safe with him...it's just the semi that jack-knifed in front of us that made us nervous. Other drivers are really my only concern when driving in the snow. Especially the big pick trucks and suv's that think they can go as fast as they want cause their 4-wheel drive makes them invincible. I hate to tell you, but we saw just as many 4-wheel drive vehicles that slid off the road as we did other cars. Anyway, we got there safe and I love all the snow we are finally getting. It really makes me happy this time of year. My mom was not happy that we went and when I called her once we got to Salt Lake she apologized for calling me names, like dumb, senseless, ridiculous. She was mumbling these to herself after she found out we still went she was appalled that I would risk our lives just for fun...needless to say, my mom is a worrier. I forgave her and appreciate her concern.

This is the first time we have stayed in a hotel with Owen since he has been old enough to enjoy it and he loved it. He had a great time. We stayed at the Red Lion and unfortunately they have an outdoor pool that was closed for the season. Lucky for us my sisters were staying at Little America right across the street. We met up with Angela and her family and Melissa and Steve and rode Trax(another great time for Owen) to Applebees at the Gateway. It was snowing huge beautiful flakes and it was so fun to walk around in, minus the getting soaking wet...still fun though. After dinner we went swimming at little America. Their pool is half indoor half outdoor and they left the outdoor open. It was really fun swimming outside in the snow. I talked Alexa and Alex into doing polar bears. After they did it I couldn't resist and got out of the pool, rolled in the snow and jumped back in. It was very stingy. We sat in the hot tub for a while and then we headed back to our hotel. We watched the Santa Claus 2 and went to sleep.

The next day we had donuts and did some shopping at the mall. After shopping my family and Angela's family went to Temple Square(Melissa and Steve went home. We missed them!). We were a little early for the lights and Alex wanted to take a tour of the conference center. Max and Owen were running around laughing their heads off, so me and Ang were a little spent with the tour, but it is a beautiful building and it has a lot of interesting art pieces in it and I would suggest that everyone do it sometime. After the tour we went outside and looked at the lights. It was very freezing and so we didn't spend a lot of time, but it was incredible. Then we went to dinner and went our seperate ways. It was fun spending the weekend with Jason, Owen, the Copes and the Summers. Hopefully next year the whole family can go!