Pictures for Grammie & Grampie

Heading to our gate at the airport on Tuesday.

Swimming at the hotel pool in Portland on Wednesday.

Kate looking cute and cold at the hotel pool.

Noah looking cute at the hotel pool.

Noah found a new bed in the hotel room.

Noah fell out of the real bed a few times, so we covered him up on the floor. This is how we found him in the morning.

Only a foot was sticking out a little later.

Hanging out in the hotel. Not where we wanted to be, but we made the best of it.

Noah being Noah.

We can't stay in Portland and not eat at Norm's! Eleanor was the one child who was excited to eat at Norm's, but when she wanted to order a grilled cheese sandwich and was told they didn't have that, she had a meltdown. The rest of the kids enjoyed the fries and tolerated being there. Matt and I enjoyed our delicious country ribs!



We went to Freeport to visit L.L. Bean.

They have a fun kids' area!




Back at the airport on Thursday. We missed our friends that we had made on Tuesday!

Will we make it on the plane this time? Uh....
Yes!

The many hours of tv watching begins.

Friday was a fun swim day at the Trump pool! Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts, and cousins were there. :-)










Notice anything different about Matt?

Zach enjoyed Grandpa time after swimming.

We went to Alpine on Saturday for the Healey reunion. Fun!
This home has been a part of the Healey family for many years and still continues to be.





We went to church Sunday morning and then had our big family picture Sunday evening. Wende took our pictures and she did a great job! She had a lot of patience for our big group, which made a difference. Who knows if we captured a perfect picture, but the experience was pleasant and actually fun. After all the pictures were taken, we ate a yummy meal outside together. We all cherish this time that we can all be together.

We took Emily to see a doctor this morning. She has a very swollen ear canal, so she was prescribed some ear drops and she was told to hold off on more swimming for a few days. This was hard for her this evening when Zoe got to go in the Trump pool again and she couldn't. :-(

We went to Logan after the doctor's appointment. We stopped at Smith & Edwards on the way. Matt told the kids that it was a law here that people have to stop at Smith & Edwards, there is no just going by. They believed him. They ended up really liking the store and they each left with at least one thing.

We stopped at Utah State. We would have enrolled Zoe, but she is only 11 you know. Matt gave Zoe and the rest of us a tour, just in case he is not around when she is old enough to go there.

Before we put the younger 4 kids to bed this evening, we had strawberry marshmallows that we bought at Smith & Edwards. The kids also enjoyed the teepee that Matt used to play in when he was a kid.

We wanted a picture of all 4 kids sticking their heads out of the teepee, but as you can tell on Eleanor's face, it was too painful!

We got this instead.

And this.

Time for bed. The younger 4 kids got to bed early this evening. 9pm early!