This weekend we took a mini vacation to Park City. We were originally planning on going to St. George, but Mat was still on call, and Luke wasn't feeling 100% so we decided to spend a couple days in Park City. We really enjoyed our time there.

The first night we stayed in the Hampton Inn & Suites right by the Outlet stores. They upgraded us to a Suite since Mat is a diamond member with Hilton. (He is a diamond member because he travels so much and they always stay at Hilton properties) This has turned out to be a pretty good perk for us. We didn't have to pay for any of our hotels.

At the Hampton we went swimming. This was Luke's actual first time swimming. We took him to a swimming pool in Idaho but the water was to cold. Luckily this pool was heated. Luke was very apprehensive at first. It always takes him a minute to get used to new things. So we sat back and waited for him to get comfortable, and in the water we went.

Once he got in the water and got used to it, he loved it! He splashed and splashed and loved riding around the pool in his little floaty thing.

We spent the day at the outlets and then went to another hotel. We decided to stay in a nicer one because Mat has a few free nights at any Hilton property. We found the Waldorf Astoria which was just up the road about a mile from our other Hotel, but it was a lot nicer!! It is a 5 star hotel and has only been open for 10 months. The valet parked our car and took our bags up to our room. To be honest we felt a little out of place. It's not very often that we stay in hotels this nice!

You can click on the picture below to see it a little bigger. Everything was so nice! There was a huge gourmet kitchen with all stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops, 2 flat screen TVs, 2 fireplaces, 2 bathrooms, a washer and dryer, a huge jetted tub, a TV in the bathroom! and well just an amazing hotel. I didn't want to leave. They had and outdoor fire pit and outdoor pool with 2 hot tubs. We tried swimming but it was to windy for Luke, so we ended up filling the bathtub with water and letting Luke splash around in there.

Overall it was a really fun weekend, and it was so nice to get out of the house and out of the city. I think we may be coming back to the Waldorf!

so smart

Luke is such a smart little boy. He catches on to things pretty quickly. He loves to play with phones, remotes, keyboards, and anything with any kind of technology. He was playing with the remote the other day and turned off the TV. He looked at the TV then pointed the remote at it to try and turn it back on. He also has figured out how to flip through the pictures on my phone. He is usually pretty entertained by it. Here is a video of him doing it. As a warning I sound pretty silly but it is cute of Luke.

Please pray for baby Madison

My sister-in-law's sister recently had a baby girl. I haven't been able to meet her yet because she has had a difficult first month of life. She was born with a cleft pallet and has whats called pierre robin sequence. She had to have surgery at the beginning of this week and has developed an infection. You can read all about baby Madison here. I believe that prayer in numbers can have a huge effect so please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.