Spontaneous Me

So, I'm not a very spontaneous girl. In fact, I don't really do much without thinking it through, planning it all out to the very detail, and giving myself a few days to make sure it's really what I want to do. Well...yesterday, James and I were VERY spontaneous! Really- neither of us are like this, so it was kind of exciting. Okay, let me go back. We had a super busy weekend planned already....

Friday we knew we had to go down to Salt Lake for a Family reunion. We found out Friday morning that "This is the Place" park was having family day. Pony rides, petting zoo's, bouncy toys, free food, train rides etc. All free. Well, we decided since we were going anyway, just to leave in the morning, spend the day at the park, then head to the reunion. It was a blast. James' mom and sister even met us there for the afternoon. So...then off to the reunion. We played games, ate food, slept out, and played in the water ALL morning on Saturday! It was so much fun. Everything is a little harder with Maddie, (chasing her around, getting her to sleep, etc) but all in all it was really fun. So, Saturday we take off home around noon. James has the weekend off, and I ask him on the way home what the plan was for the rest of the day. Not much he says. We decide to take the "Scenic" route home, through Ogden or something...(not really sure where we were!) and it took us an extra 30-40 minutes or so, but it was a nice drive. We knew the kids would be exhausted and they slept most of the way home. As we're getting to our home, the kids were sleeping, so SPONTANEOUSLY we decide maybe we should just keep driving to VERNAL, UTAH and visit Dinosaurland! Really? I haven't showered, McKenzie is still in a swimming suit....oh well. This could be fun right? It's only an extra 2-2 1/2 hours! So, there we go....past our little house... onto Vernal! We figure we'll go for 3-4 hours and head home when the kids are ready for another nap, and we should all be good. When we get to Vernal, we realize we locked our house keys in the house. (At the time we only had 1 set...and they were on MY key chain which was at home in my purse). Well, after not sleeping well the night before, and being in the sun all day we were both pretty exhausted. Again..... (the second time in one day) we decide to be Spontaneous.....(maybe just lazy) and get a hotel room in Vernal and worry about it in the morning! Yep. We went to Dinosaurland, swam at the hotel again (swimming 2 times in one day made me world's best mom in my kids' book), and headed off to bed. We THEN realize we left the play pen at the reunion, and now have to figure a way to get Madison to sleep! It ended up working out fine, and we headed back home early this morning for church. We called my uncle (who owns the house we're renting) and found out they have a spare key somewhere up here. Um...yeah..couldn't find it. So...we did the next best thing. Pulled out a screen, opened a window and shoved Carson through it to unlock the house. At least we made it in! Very spontaneous weekend. And the sad thing is...when you are spontaneous, you don't always have a camera with you. I was SO bummed I missed so many good pictures! Maybe we'll have to try it again though!