Utah trip day 2: Thanksgiving Point Farm Country & Tucanos

It's been almost a week since posting about the first day. I'm really lacking motivation to accomplish anything lately. The pregnancy is responsible for most of it, then the heat just takes whatever is left. Blah. So, I'm trying to be a good girl and do this, at least it doesn't require movement.

When we lived Utah we had a membership to Thanksgiving Point two different years. The farm was a really fun thing for us to do, and we would go fairly often. Well, either the boys got sick of it and maintained that feeling for two years, or they've just outgrown it. They weren't all that interested in taking their time and enjoying the animals. Katy was much more interested and probably would've happily stayed longer without cranky brothers. Well, and it was hot, so we were all kind of cranky. Weeeeee...

Katy liked letting this little goat lick her finger. Luckily she didn't learn that goats often bite!

Aunt Nadine was able to have a free day off work the week of our visit (because her birthday had been on Sunday, and her boss usually gives birthdays off), so she & Brady came with us to the farm. Brady liked the animals a lot!

You gotta have a "kids in jail" picture. It is the rule of Thanksgiving Point. I have a lot of these scattered among my picture folders.

Brady wasn't willing to conform to the "rule." I never got a good one of all 4 kids together.

Ah, the highlight of Farm Country, the pony ride. They give a ticket to everyone who pays admission, and they can use it either for a pony ride or a hay ride. Which is an irritating way of trying to get more money, because the only way to go on a hay ride as a family is to either skip the pony ride or buy more tickets. So we skipped the hay ride, leaving 6 tickets (since Brady was free) for the 4 kids. Thought that was going to be a problem. Then, in a very grown up move, David volunteered to only go once and let Ryan & Katy go twice! It was very sweet. :-)

David likes to give Katy piggy back rides. She likes to get them. If only sibling relationship were always so smooth...

Ryan got to ride the big one on his second turn. This made him very happy.

And Katy got to ride the black one, which was a big deal to her! I meant to crop the picture so you can see her face better, but I'm just too lazy at the moment. Believe me, she looks very happy!

After the second pony rides, 5 very hot Morrills left to visit with the Mecham family for a little while. We stopped and got everyone drinks to avoid dying of dehydration. The gas station cashier gave Katy a sucker because she is really cute and was being sad (for no apparent reason). Poor boys. We try not to give preferential treatment, then perfect strangers do it instead!


After a nice visit with Gayelinn & her family, we drove back to Provo to have dinner at one of our all time favorite restaurants, Tucanos!

It was convenient that Ryan had had a birthday that month, and for some reason they still send us the free meal birthday cards. He even got sang to & some ice cream, which was a fun treat with it being almost 2 weeks past his birthday!

Here we all are at dinner. Except for me, taking the picture. Should've asked a waiter. Oh well.

a Smith cousin!

My poor kids haven't had any Smith cousins until last month. Between me being the oldest of my siblings, me getting married at 18, and me insisting on having a baby shortly after turning 20, I had almost 7 years head start! Nadine finally had baby Brady last month, and we got to meet him over the weekend!

If you would've asked me before we went which of my kids would be the most interested in the baby, I would've said Katy. She loves her doll babies, and she's constantly yelling "Look, a baby!" whenever she sees one. My next thought would be David, since he's been known to fawn over babies (especially Katy when she was new). And I would've been wrong. Ryan liked the baby far and away more than the other two!

Ryan liked to hold Brady. He liked to touch Brady. He hovered around whoever was holding him. He'd go play for a few minutes, then come back to see him some more. It was really, really cute!


My parents wanted a picture of their four grandkids together. At first Brady was sad, so he got to have his pacifier for the picture. Here we have David putting it in his mouth. You can't really see it in the shrunk down picture, but I like the sweet expression on his face as he cares for his baby cousin. And of course Ryan is concerned as well.

We took lots and lots of pictures (I love digital cameras so we can do that!), and this is the best I got. I bet my dad got a better one once I stopped trying to take my own and started jumping around like a crazy lady to get the kids to smile.


And then...we were done having our pictures taken. Clearly. I like Katy's face here, she looks so sneaky or something!


This has nothing to do with the cousin, but it's from the trip to Grandma & Grandpa's house. Ryan & Katy helped Grandpa harvest some bean seeds to use next year. They both really actually helped! Grandpa is so good at letting the kids participate in fun projects!


Keep scrolling down, I did 4 posts today! Someday I'll be more organized and post more regularly...