Last but not least...The Ellis TOURNAMENTS

We spent our last few days in UT with Stan & KK in their awesome SLC apartment.

Somehow I only have ONE picture of this time....but I have lots of memories, so I'll just tell instead of show.

Favorite parts of these few days for Savannah and Lily:

• Going into the hallway to look at the 5-story waterfall in the lobby of their building
• Playing in the exercise room
• Going up and down in the apartment elevator
• Playing with Grandma KK & Papa Stan & their cousins

How do I know this?  It took them about 2 full months to stop asking to do all of those things every other day. 

Our favorite parts:

• Bingeing on Ping-pong, pool, backgammon, Settlers, Wizard, Foosball, Basketball, Uno, etc etc etc for about 2 days.  (Rob, as usual, made a great showing in the tournaments.  Me, not so much.)
• Spending time with dear family we don't get to see nearly often enough
• Seeing how BIG and CUTE our little nieces and nephews are getting
• Going to the MTC devotional on New Year's Eve that Stan was giving

Toasting to the New Year...with chocolate.  2014 should be a good one!

The drive home FROM Utah was much much much less eventful than the drive TO Utah, for which we were very very very grateful.  There's nothing like a 36-hour car trip to make a 24-hour drive seem like no big deal, right?  And actually, the vacation was so so so wonderful and fun that it made the entire ordeal totally worth it.  Isn't family awesome?!?!?!