Everyone knows that saying about when life gives you lemons make lemonade. Well yesterday the kids and I made some seriously amazingly wonderful lemonade!
I decided we needed a change of environment, so loaded up the kids and headed over to our local park for a picnic. It was going great until I saw a swarm of kids walked over from the local elementary school. Within minutes the tables around us were full of school aged children, and more were coming, lots more.
The playground equipment was practically invisible due to the sheer number of kids playing on it. They filled up every inch of that playground equipment, and I could see my little two year old getting slightly overwhelmed by it all. We weren't there thirty minutes before we loaded the car back up and left.
I was heading home when I decided to pull the car over and google parks in Utah County. The first park that popped up on my screen was in Pleasant Grove and from the picture looked awesome! Twelve minutes later we were pulling up to the new, for us anyway, park. The kids eyes were wide open with wonder and excitement. I had never seen a playground like it, and was kinda (ok a lot) jealous that I was an old lady, and wouldn't be able to run around and play and explore.
The girls had an absolute blast!
Hannah made loads of new friends (but to be fair she makes new friends everywhere she goes.) Lilly Belle laughed and laughed for the twenty minutes she was on the swing. After playing for a good hour we were pooped.
We set up our camping chairs (that were still in my car from the lantern festival) under a couple trees, and finished our picnic.
On the ride home all three kids passed out. It was a quiet car perfect for driving around all the new homes going up.
It is interesting to think that had those kids not overtook the park we were at first, we NEVER would have found this park. We are excited to go back soon, and next month we are going to take the girls cousins from California there!
the beginning of our picnic
the swarm of kids that overtook the entire park - if you look closely you can see more coming!
The new park we found - this was just a small portion of it!
and look how flippin amazing those mountains look in the background! Utah is seriously such a beautiful place to live
hanging out with Lilly Belle - didn't get any pictures of Hannah cause she was running around with her new friends
my three kids all passed out!
I love them
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