I promised the girls a train ride. I take the Trax to work most days, since the traffic to my new job is horrendous. The girls were BEYOND excited to get to ride the train. I was BEYOND excited to not have to drive :) I must say, we had an absolute blast, and the girls were so cute and well behaved, a train passenger even commented on how good the girls were for the entire train ride!
It was pretty freezing out so we wore our hats and gloves. For our destination, we were going all the way to Red Butte Gardens, by mommy's work, to attend an educational snowflake craft class. We got our exercise in walking up the hill all the way from the train station to the location of the class...
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| Two very excited sisters, awaiting the train arrival at the Jordan Valley station |
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| Cuddling helps keep each other warm! |
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| Mommy loves her girls! |
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| I just love this girl's smile! |
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| Luckily I got to see lots of smiles on our adventure trip! |
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| This girl has a pretty cute smile too! |
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| The girls loved the snowflake crafts! |
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| McKel proudly displays her glittery snowflake that she made! |
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| They especially loved the pretzel/marshmallow snowflakes... and got to taste quite a few of these flavorful snowflakes. |
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| Such a sweetie cutie |
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| Makes my heart happy |
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| These are some delicious snowflakes! |
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| :) |
What happened next was another adventure all in itself! We headed over to the Gateway Mall to meet up with Aunt Trish and the triplet boys... While waiting in the car for them to arrive, Avril used her Houdini skills and somehow managed to entangle herself in the seatbelt and lock it in to position. Mommy tried and tried, but could not get the seatbelt to budge at all... a mall employee passed by and witnessed my despair, so offered to help. He did not have any better luck, so he called a friend for more support. She was very kind and helpful, but not able to help to get poor Avril unstuck from her seat in the car.
Next we had the mall police come, who were quite useless without any tools. They went to try to find tools... in the meantime, a lady who walked by saw our predicament and grabbed her husband, knowing that he had a tool set in his truck...
He ended up being the one who finally saved us! He was able to unbolt the seatbelt to get Avril out, which was nice because we were worried that we would have to resort to cutting through the seatbelt. This way, we didn't have to buy an expensive new seatbelt. This made quite the story. Avril was a trooper through the whole thing. I think she liked the attention, but was a little embarrassed that she'd gotten herself stuck....
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| Avril sits patiently waiting for someone to be able to rescue her... |
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| you can see how tight the seatbelt is wrapped around her waist, poor girl! |
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| Our team of helpers trying to get Avril out of the car... |
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| Someday she will have quite the story to tell! |
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| Unbolting the seatbelt... |
And she made it out! Time to go get some ice cream treats at the mall :)
