The Long Weekend Begins!

On Friday night Ian's parents and Grandma Bowles flew in. Their flight was a little delayed so they got here later than we thought. They made it safely though and we stayed up way too late watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Which, by the way, I thought was slow and kind of disappointing. Sorry Canada.

Saturday we had a marathon day. It started with Ian heading off to a long meeting for ward conference. Weston had a primary activity at 10am. Then at 11 we all piled into the Sienna, picked up Weston, and were on our way.
First stop was the Museum of Ancient Life, aka the dinosaur museum. We ran through it pretty quickly. The kids just didn't want to stop anywhere. Oh well. I think the grandparents all thought it was neat. Ian was on the hunt for the gnomes that are discreetly painted throughout the museum. He only found 3 though.

Weston explained all about the "holy mammoth" display to Grandma. It was hilarious.

Next stop was lunch at the Thanksgiving Point deli. It's so yummy and we get a discount with our membership. Can I just say again how amazing our Thanksgiving Point membership is?
The kids were worn out after lunch, but that worked out ok because next we drove the rest of the way down to Provo and they napped. We hit up the BYU Bookstore big time. Ian's parents met at BYU and graduated from there and are big fans. They don't get a lot of opportunities to shop at the bookstore, so they stocked up. We all got new BYU gear too. Ian and I didn't do Valentine's Day gifts for each other, but I got a new BYU sweatshirt and Ian got a pair of BYU basketball shorts. We each got a couple t-shirts too. Grandma and Papa bought Davin a shirt and Weston a hat. He was sooo excited about his BYU hat and wore it the whole rest of the day (and first thing the next morning too).
We changed into our new gear and got ready to head over to the basketball game. We were still a little early, so we killed some time at the Bean Museum. The game was fabulous. We had a great time. BYU killed Air Force, and we had good seats. The kids actually were really good too. Davin got antsy during the second half and we took turns letting him run around out in the hall.
After the game Ian and Grandma waited with Weston to see Cosmo and ring the victory bell. Weston was in BYU heaven. It was really just such a fun day together. We were all pretty exhausted by the end of it, so we drove home, ordered a pizza and went to bed early.