Super Fun Utah "Staycation"

We decided to stay home for spring break this year and explore all the wonders of Utah that are on our back porch. And thankfully the weather cooperated.

Thursday (April 9th) was our first day of Spring Break and Brian had a meeting at work that he was not able to cancel. So I decided to just spend the day with the boys at Classic Skating. Lisa and Shay along with all their kiddies decided to join us. My friend Christy and a few of her kids also came. The boys rollerbladed and spent hours on the bouncy equipment.

Friday was the official start of our "staycation". We decided to go up to Ogden and visit the Eccels Dinosaur Museum and park. We had a great time. They had a few animitronic dinosaurs which were pretty lifelike. They had a decent fossil display also. Xander and Josh love to soak up knowledge so they read about all the different dinosaurs. Josh also continued his love of photography and took so many pictures. Lisa and her little ones were also able to join us this day. Her kids really love walking around outside and seeing all the giant dinosaur statues. The outside was such a perfect set up. Great little trails and scenery. Not to mention the end of the park was a playground for all the kids to play on.

After the dinosaur park we headed over to the Hill Air Force Base Aerospace Museum. I initially was just going for the guys but it turned out to be fascinating. I could not believe some of the planes and helicopters that people actually used to fly around in. And nuclear war heads are giant... just in case you were wondering. Brian and the boys were in heaven. This kind of museum is right up their alley. I can't even list off everything we saw there. Mya was probably the cutest at the museum. She kept following Josh and Xander around pointing at everything the were pointing at. She was acting like a big kid. Truly adorable.

Saturday we went downtown to eat at Brian's favorite, heart attack on a plate, deli... Siegfrieds (I totally spelled that wrong I am sure.)After that we just headed up to the Utah Museum of Natural History. I think our favorite exhibit was the live frog display they have going on right now. The frogs were so vibrant colored. Not to mention a lot of them were poisonous. You wouldn't think a cute little pink frog is poisonous... but you would be wrong. I guess they don't need to use camouflage because they are deadly. Josh had a great time photographing the frogs and the live insect display. A couple of the spider exhibits were empty. I am not sure if that is the best thing to have... EMPTY spider cages!!!! The boys actually spent a large portion of our time at the museum putting on a puppet show. It was great fun. The dinosaur and fossil display was actually far more extensive then at the dinosaur park the day before. We also got to see museum employees uncovering and preserving some fossils. A very delicate process.

Brian and I went out to dinner with a group of friends to Tucanos a little later that night. The food and company was fabulous. Then we went on the great Easter hunt of '09. I typically have all of our Easter shopping done weeks in advance. However, this year I just procrastinated. We hit up 3 stores before stopping at Walgreens where we hit the mother lode. I bought like 40 dollars in candy just to make up for being a slacker mom. I spent the rest of the night stuffing plastic eggs and preparing the boys baskets.

Sunday was Easter and we had Richard, Vicki, Mark, and Molly over for breakfast. I was sick that morning because I took some medication on an empty stomach (thanks root canal). Brian and the boys were very sweet and made breakfast for everyone. Creamed Easter Eggs and biscuits. Then Vicki, Brian, and the boys all headed off to church while I slept off my stomach ache. After church we all headed over to Bachan's for Easter dinner. Tim made a great turkey and there was just too much food to even mention. We just spent the evening chit chatting and having fun with our family. It was a perfect way to top off our "staycation".

The slideshow above is some of our fun. Check out the rest here .