Thursday
We left Herriman on Thursday morning just as it started snowing at our house... Seriously Utah?! Uuuugh I've been dying for stormy days and snow and NOW is when you deliver? Typical.
Anyway, it turned pretty sunny as we headed south (seriously depressing). Micah had some work calls to do so I blogged and did some Pinterest "work".
Zoey tried the ENTIRE drive to get onto our laps.. Kill me, she's such a big dog now!
We got down to St. George around 2ish and Micah had to do a store visit right away, so I just hung out with the kiddos. Once he was done we checked into the Ramada & I started sewing. Yep sewing. Right before we left for St. George, I got a bunch of Christmas orders that I needed to make and send out that night to ensure they arrived before Christmas. So little ol' Gertrude came with us. Or Gerty as I call her. ;P
I finished up just as we were all getting a little hangry & we popped over to the Chili's right by our hotel.
Olive immediately became an ambidextrous artist while we waited for the chips & salsa.
All artists are starving, right?
Our dinner was delish and we finished off with a yummy cookie skillet. So many calories but soo good!
After dinner, we hopped over to the post office so I could mail my packages. Poor Liv was asleep before we left the Chili's parking lot.. Unfortunately she was wide awake when we got back to the room though! We tried laying her down in the pack n play when we first got into the room around 9:30pm (already 2 hours past her bedtime) but she was super pissed and was screaming her little head off.. So we let her wander the room and she just got insane! Our crazy babe was wired and giggly til we tried laying her down again at 11pm.. Seriously! She finally fell asleep around the same time we did too.
I think the mixture of getting a tiny nap in the car, plus being in a new setting, and being back in a crib-like bed really threw her off. Poor thing.
Friday
The next morning Micah had an early store visit.. he tried to sneak out the door without waking Livi up, but once the door lock unlatched, Olive sat up, looked right at him and says "hiiiiiiiii!" Super happy and wide awake! Awesome.
So he left and I snuggled Livi in the king bed with Zoey for a little while. I was still SO tired! This pregnancy has killed me lately.. I've felt really good and not uncomfortable, but man, I get tired at like 9pm now. I've fallen asleep on our couch more times than I can count lately!
Anyway, Micah called me around 9:30am and said he was coming back to get me to grab breakfast with Ben & Ali (bro and sis in law). I was totally not even ready yet.. Neither was Olive!
So I leapt up from watching some Disney somethin with Livi and got ready. Micah showed up like 5 minutes later & got Livi ready.
Ben & Ali were waiting for us at The Bear Paw Cafe where we had a suuuuper yummy breakfast. Pretty sure I didn't eat lunch because it was so filling. Pancakes & bacon. What more could a girl need?
Olive was uncharacteristically cranky during breakfast. She didn't want anything to eat, just wanted to play on my phone and walk up and down the ramp leading into the restaurant.
She was exhausted unfortunately. It was 11:30 (past her normal nap time) and she only got 8 ish hours of sleep in comparison to her normal 12-13 hours. My child is a zombie. Love her.
We hurried over to our hotel to pack up our crap & get Micah over to another store visit. Liv was totally helping pack up.
Again for his store visit I hung out with Liv & Zo and updated my blog & social media crap.
Livi took a really good nap for once.
And Zoey joined in.
Once Micah finished up his store visit we headed to Tonaquint Park to get our girls some much needed exercise and to stretch their legs.
Zoey pretty much sprinted around in a circle for the first 20 minutes. Poor girl was SO sick of the car!
Liv was stoked to play all over the park & chase Zoey.
I can't get enough of those baby blues. Love her.
I tried to get a group picture right before we left but... I ended up kinda smacking Zoey's head into Olive's. Poor kiddo was having a blast and then Zo's thick skull crashes into her face. Ugh. Worst mommy ever. So we promptly left the park. :(
Micah's last store to visit was in Cedar City, on our way back home. So he hopped into the store and we waited in the car. Liv ate a disgusting sounding lunch/dinner... Avocado with Chex cereal. In her mouth at the same time. She'd get two Chex pieces in her mouth then then to me with her mouth wide open, totally asking for avocado. Yuck. But she ate the whole avocado & almost the whole tupperware of cereal! Whatever works.
I then let her crawl all over the car & she loved life.
She was ready to go home!
Micah came back to the car & we stopped over at Cafe Rio for dinner and Liv had no interest in food.. Just in ice. Weirdo. Although I don't blame her; their ice is pretty amazing.
A quick gas fill up & bathroom stop and we headed out of Cedar. Homeward bound!
Liv and Zo fell asleep within 5 minutes of driving.. Poor things.
We left Cedar around 6:30pm and made good time, got home around 10pm. As nice as it is to get away for a little break, there's just nothing like home. And your own bed. Holy crap my bed is incredible.
Enough blogging for me, adios!
xoxo
Mandi
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