Trip up to the Frosty North or for candy and cake....

We spent the weekend up in Salt Lake City playing with our Preslar cousins.  We love them so.  We spent all of Thursday slicking up the house (so that Mommy could come home to no chores) and packing our bags.  To be honest, we get almost as excited to go to SLC as we do to Disneyland and it's MUCH cheaper and a shorter drive!

We actually did more coloring than cleaning....

It was so cold though.  Oh it was so cold.  We spent our first night and morning with Oma and Apa enjoying their fire.  I might have freaked Daddy out a little when I woke up however!  I woke up startled and looked at the foot of my bed which was in Apa's solarium and exclaimed:

"Oh! It's gone!"

Daddy: "What's gone?"

Me: "The white face with no nose and no mouth and black eyes." (said very calmly and matter of fact)

Daddy: "Huh.  Was it there before?"

Me: "Yeah, I woke up in the middle of the night when it was dark and it was at the end of my bed." (again very matter of fact)

Daddy: "You mean outside?"

Me: "No.  I mean inside by my bed." (again no fear...)

We then grabbed our gear and spent the rest of the weekend causing mayhem and mischief with Aunt Rachel, Uncle Troy, Chase, Romney and Emma.  It was so delightful.  We attended their Halloween Carnival in our full costumes this year and got candy...

Uncle Troy must have a much better non blurry picture of this

The next day Cara and I dragged our parents to "Boo at The Zoo" which was trick or treating at the zoo.  They had no idea and were ASTOUNDED at the parking problems.  We were also not dressed in our costumes but we still managed to get a lot of candy and see the animals.

Cara was at least festively dressed!

Then we ran back to the Preslars and helped Aunt Rachel get ready for Chase's birthday party.  He turned 10!  We mostly helped by taking Emma up the zoo for our second trip and keeping her out of the way during bowling...

Look at our adorable triplets...I'm pretty sure more than one
person thought they were.

We also got to see a special dance by the sea lions!
Guess which one?
(Hint..that's a boy and a girl...)

We joined the craziness of the remainder of a birthday party back at the house and ate so much cake and frosting.  Okay actually just Mommy and Daddy...so much.

We also got to eat more cake and frosting on Sunday when we had a family get together for Chase again!  So much sugar was ingested.  Again mostly by Mommy.  We didn't take a whole lot of pictures but it was a great little jaunt up north.

And just as a side note...we might be trying this next year.  Look at these costumes?!