Salt Lake & Snow Man's Wife

Last week Matt came home and told us that he had a room for us at the Downtown Marriott in Salt Lake for Friday night. We looked forward to it all week and it ended up being a blast! We all decided that this has to be a new tradition we carry on every year.

Matt came home early on Friday so that we could get down there in plenty of time to get some good swimming in. We parked under the hotel and hauled ALL of our bags and food up to the lobby and the staff couldn't find us in the computer. They figured that we were probably at the other Marriott. We didn't know there were 2 full-service Marriotts within a couple blocks of each other (it was a rookie's mistake ;)). We found the downtown Marriott on our GPS and got all checked in just in the nick of time (Brynn was informing everyone that she would just have to pee her pants if we didn't hurry). Our room was on the 14th floor and the outside wall was a gigantic window. We had an amazing view of the temple and Brynnlie spent lots of time looking at all the cars and lights and people down below.


Brynnlie & Daddy really enjoyed themselves in the pool (Brynn liked the hot tub the very best but her daddy wouldn't let her stay in it for more than a couple of minutes in fear that it would cook her insides. ;)) They swam for a couple hours on Friday and then Brynn woke up at the crack of dawn Saturday and pulled her daddy out of bed for another 3 hour swim :).


After swimming on Friday night, we got ourselves all bundled up and walked around temple square. It was absolutely beautiful and it really put us in the Christmas spirit seeing all of the sacred scenes and hearing the stories of Christ's birth. Brynnlie's favorite part was seeing baby Jesus and she kept asking, "is this real or pretend?"






We ended the night with all of us in our pajamas snuggling on the king bed watching Despicable Me (fun movie!). I am so grateful for these moments we share as a family! I love my handsome and incredibly amazing man and our two beautiful children more than anything in this whole world. They are so fun to hang out with.

We hope you all enjoyed the holidays as much as we have! Happy New Year!!! :)

p.s. Here's a pic of Frosty's wife, "Frigid". :) Brynn & I had to get the snow wet in the ditch just to get it to pack before we started to roll it but we sure had fun!