Thanksgiving 2012!! (pt 2)

After a day or so of rest in Monticello we continued on to Salt Lake City to stay with my brother Eric since the condo my family was renting wasn't available til the next day.  We chatted and got to know Sarah (my new sister-in-law!) and watched one of the harry potters with riff tracks.  It was hilarious.  Anywho...
The next day we picked my parents up from the airport and all made our way to the condo up in Sandy.  It was pretty nice (you'll just have to take my word on it-didn't take any pics of the place).
Over the week we of course played tons of games, watched movies, and played a hilarious game of charades with the grandkids.  It was fun for everyone to finally meet Jake in person and see how much everyone has grown up!

Jake with his oldest cousin Benson:

Jake with his uncle Mike

We also got together with some of the Browne's for lunch at Crown Burger per cody's request :) (we had specific restaurants that we HAD to hit while there and this was one of them)  Where we got to meet Amy and Brett's lil guy carter-so cute and fun to see them together!

uncle randy and the lil guys

The next day Code and I took Jake to BYU campus.  Man I-15 is pretty nice now that it's FINALLY done!  Other random changes: the cheap barbershop on campus is no more-we discovered this, sadly, as Code tried to get his haircut only to find a ritzy paul mitchell salon.  I felt bad- he had waited til the trip to cut his hair specifically to get a cheap hair cut at the barbershop.  Oh well.

It was so crazy to be back-it felt like forever ago and yet so familiar.  It was fun to walk around campus and get our fav: pumpkin smashes! 

so, since when was this roped off infront of jamba in the wilk??? 

best building on campus:

cute photo session with jake:

in honor of the Engstroms:

We even stopped in to see the MoA and even though their main floor exhibits were out of commission (getting ready to put in a new exhibit next month apparently), the bottom floor had a cool exhibit combining warhol popart and some japaname artist.  I was nervous that jake would start crying and MAN does it echo in there-haha, but he was the perfect lil patron of the arts.  They had a really cool interactive area in the middle of the exhibit.  I'll admit I hadn't taken the time to really read the different signage and get the overall theme of the exhibit so I have no idea the correlation (something about the flat dimensions/styles of popart?), but it was cool just the same-they had these fans set up blowing different directions, and these silver balloon pillow things that would float forever.  Jake liked looking at them.

here were some statues outside of the MOA:

All and all it was so fun to be back in our old stomping grounds!  Later that night we went to dinner at a local philly cheese steak place and then went to the BYU game which kind of backfired.  Jake didn't like all the screaming/cheering/and whistle blowing-kept crying (poor guy) so I spent the first half with him out in the hallway watching the game on the tv.  I had a bad headache/didn't feel great so we went home at the half.  Oh well, hopefully it's not any indication of his interest in future byu games :)

To Be Continued....