Sisters weekend take 2!!! (+mom)

Remember a few months ago my sisters and I planned a sisters weekend? Well we did it AGAIN!! My parents go to AZ for the winter so mom wasn't able to come last time. She now is back home and wanted to reenact the weekend with her. Haa haa. My mom is funny! She just knows that my sister is having a baby here in a few months and wont be able to do this again for quite some time. Smart thinkin' mom!

So this is how this weekend went down:

Mom and I took off from Logan around 4 o'clock. We headed down south and picked up the two older but most beautiful sisters. We were starving, so we hit the famous BRICK OVEN restaurant! It was super yummy and filled our belly's right up. We then were ready for some good times ahead.


Oldest (10 years older) sister Cindi.
Cindi, Cristi, and Mom after our fab meal! YUM!!

We then drove to the good ol SLC! We checked into our place: Crystal Inn. This was an older and not as retro as our Hyatt from last time...but it was still super nice.

That night we went swimming in the pool. It felt so nice to relax, kick back and just chat with my sisters and mommy. Oh how I love them so.

We chatted til late and rested our little tired eyes. It was the best sleep I had had in awhile. Awww...very nice!

The next morning we ate a HUGE warm breakfast. (It was the best Continental breakfast I have ever had. It had all the works. We were SUPER impressed!!) We then got cleaned up for the day and had to do our traditional pedicures to each other. Mom has a broken toe at the moment, but we still beautified her black nasty toe....to bright RED!! ;)



Check out time! Goodbye Crystal Inn!!!


We then hit Grandpa Vandersteen's place in downtown SLC! He was excited to see all of us all together all at the same time. His health is really fading but he still took us for a tour of his....
Chicken coup!! (He always calls himself the best chicken farmer in all of mill creek! We all just go along with it! :))
These are his babies that he takes care of day and night.
We couldn't stay long, but he made sure we all went home with at least a dozen BROWN eggs each!
His fridge is always FULL of eggs. Always has been and I am sure always will be. We love grandpa Vandersteen ("Chicken-steen" as we call him.)
We then headed up little cotton wood canyon to my aunts house for a baby shower. My cousin that is about the same age as me is having her 1st babe!! She lives up in Seattle and we don't see her often. :( This was fun to see my sweet cousin that I was very close with growing up. It was a great turn out of family and her friends. We loved eating yummy food (once again) and visiting with lots of great people.

Measuring her darling belly! I lost.

Sweet Sara having her first baby. A girl!! Love her.

It was time to continue our sisters weekend and head out again to the open city! We hit the gateway for some shopping and entertainment. The day was PERFECT!!!! So warm and beautiful!! We shopped and relaxed until our IMAX show was about to start. We hit pirates!! It was a good movie, we all enjoyed it.

It then was time to say goodbye to all.....until next time! Always enjoyable and super nice to be with family...especially my sweet sisters and mom.

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I got home and the weekend and the weather was still continuing to be NICE. A miracle I tell ya. Gotta love it baby!! Summer evenings it is always a tradition to enjoy our evening bike rides as a family along with some of our neighbors. We love these types of summer traditions!!

All my boys, getting ready to head out!
The trailer hubby's!
Hitting the park is always a must also. Tate loves the slides!
Same with Davin also!
Of course the boys LOVE the swings!!
Even the oldest boy!
He likes to do funny tricks........
to make us ALL laugh....
Boy, does he have talent!! HAA HAA!!

Gotta love this boy!!! He is a child at heart and that is why we all love him so.
(Don't worry, his bum was just fine! ;) Just his head was about to get smacked! AHHH)

Is it July yet?? NO!?!??! Oh well....why not pull out some sparklers!?

We always seem to pull them out on random nights with neighbors. The kids love em. We love them. Why not!!??