Moyes summer vacation: Manti

For our Moyes family vacation this year, my mom wanted to take everyone to the Manti Pageant since it was the last year they were doing it and none of the kids had ever seen it.  She was able to rent a house for Thursday night.  We were the first ones to get there so while we were waiting for everyone else to arrive, I took the kids on a walk around the block and we found a cute, little park.

The pageant didn't start until 9:30 but you could go in at 6 to get a seat.  My mom had chicken, rolls, chips, and watermelon for us and we took it to the temple grounds, found a seat on the lawn, ate dinner, and played until the pageant started.  We also tried our hardest to stay dry since it was pouring almost the entire time.  This is a group that is easy-going and makes the best out of everything and the rain really didn't put much of a damper on anything.

My little girls love umbrellas so they were happy to be able to hold them.

Molly, Chloe, Abby, Tessa

Tessa, Grace, Chloe, Abby, Ben, Gavin, Molly

Erin W., Grandpa, Grandma, Grace, Justin, Ivy, Megan, Abby, Bryce, Erin M., Ben, Seth, Ali, Spencer, Tessa, Lucy, Chloe, Molly, Brynn, Gavin, Harper, Stockton, Grant, Josie.  We were missing Jeff, who couldn't take more days off of work and Christopher who was on call that weekend at couldn't leave the county.

The pageant was great.  Molly really liked it. Brynn fell asleep sometime during the middle (she wasn't the only kid who did that).  Stockton and Ivy watched the whole thing.  When it was over, we loaded everything back up in the wagons and walked to the house where we were staying.  We tented it in the backyard and sort of stayed dry.  

The house was only available the one night so after breakfast that morning, we packed up and headed north.  We were going to spend the day at Cherry Hill water park but it was only supposed to get to 60 degrees that day (so weird for June 22) so my mom put me in charge of finding a new activity we could do in Utah or Salt Lake County.  I gave my siblings a couple different choices and all the kids still wanted to swim so we went to the Provo Rec Center.  It's a pretty big complex with inside and outside pools.  It was a hit!  There was something there for everyone.  The kids had a lot of fun in the lazy river, the slides, the rock climbing wall and the older kids were brave enough to go outside (it was cold!) to ride the slides out there.  I have always made Brynn wear her life jacket but told her she didn't have to use it this time and that made it so much more fun for her.  She loved the diving ledge and did it over and over.  Stockton was too nervous to do it but ended up doing it right before we left and then I couldn't get him off of it.  Molly had woke up that morning not feeling well but ended up being fine and ran all over with her cousins.  Ivy loved the lazy river and the kiddie area and she loved that she could ride with one of the big kids down the outside slides.  It ended up being a great spot for everyone and a fun little stay-cation for the whole family!

Ivy, Brynn, Josie, Lucy-at the house in the morning before we left