Utah part 1

So the week after Christmas we went to Utah for the week. We left Monday and spent hte night in Winnemucca visiting Kevin's family. We then drove the rest of the way to Provo on Tuesday. Wednesday we met up with my sister and her family. We went to Gardner Village in West Valley City. It would have been SO much more fun if we hadn't had freezing winds and snow on us! But it was still fun. We had to find 12 elves that were 'hiding' throughout the village. Here we are getting ready to start our search.

Here you can see the kids found the elf playing the piano. (sitting on the bench)

After we found all the elves we went to a candy store that gave all the kids a candy stick. This is the sign on the door when we went in. It was SO funny!

After we froze outside, we were grateful to go to an International Center (name?) and walk around inside! They had a TON of nativities, and for any of you that know me knows I was in HEAVEN! This is Sammy and cousin Nicole checking them out.

Here are some shells (egg shell on left, bird shell on right) that had nativities in them! AMAZINGLY SMALL!

This one was gorgeous! One of my many favorites! Wood is always so pretty!

They also had a ton of Christmas trees and wreaths that people donated. This one is a Fairy topiary. It was SO cute and probably everyone's favorite.

This wreath was decorated by a lady who had collected all these dolls from Russia. I can not imagine the value of these things. Other than the topiary all the other trees represented different countries. It was really neat!

They then had a gingerbread house section. About 30 different donated gingerbread houses. This was my favorite....the Salt Lake City Temple.

Here are all the kids in front of a tree. But that is not all we did this day....check out part 2!