The Allen Family: Eden

The day after school got out, we headed out of town to kick summer off with a family vacation! We went up Ogden Canyon to a little town called Eden. It was one of the most fun vacations we've ever been on! I want to make it a yearly tradition to start summer that way. We'd never been to Eden before, but we loved it! It's so green there, and is in a quiet spread out community, but it's close to Ogden so we had lots of fun things to do. We stayed in the World Mark Wolf Creek Condominiums. They were so nice! My cousin and her family came up with us and stayed in their own condo, which is what made this vacation so much fun. They have kids within one year of each of our kids and they get along so well! Both of our kids LOVED playing every day with their cousins!

One day we headed down to Ogden and went to the Treehouse Children's Museum. The kids had a BLAST! There were a lot of different stations there (like a China house, a hero section, a castle area) that the kids could dress-up in costumes. Here's some pictures from there:

John is so proud!

Playing with parachutes

Dressing up

The Music Room

Jayden's favorite was the giant Chess board

The kids put on a play for us

Several days we went swimming at the pool at our condo. There was a giant "kid" slide that shot the kids out super fast. The kids definitely had to warm up to it.

All the kids brought their scooters and right across the parking lot there was a really fun ramp that they had fun riding down. I think this might have been their favorite thing to do :)

In my last post, I forgot to put pictures of Jacob's party. He turned 4 when we were on vacation, so we celebrated it in Eden. He was so cute all day long! He loved us singing Happy Birthday to him and helping to make his cake. The next day he was heartbroken that it was no longer his birthday.