Tia Allred Blog

These toddlers are becoming: opinionated stubborn cuter louder smarter The list could go on.  But what it really does is make grocery shopping a big pain.  And some of my grocery shopping trips are big "stocking-up" ones.  And it's hard fitting two toddlers, and a bunch of groceries all in one cart, not to mention keeping the toddlers happy and the noise at...

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We gassed up at the station and bought some muffins, doughnuts, chocolate milk, and bananas since our hotel didn't have a breakfast and we didn't want to waste too much time.  This trip, I became obsessed with powdered doughnuts.  And I won major points from the kids, by letting them indulge in the powdered doughnuts while in the car. And two toddlers sleeping...

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After piling back into the car, we made a quick little drive up to Salt Lake City and walked around Temple Square and then grabbed lunch at the mall. After that, we were headed to Boise!  We took a little stop at this gas station claiming to be "in the middle of nowhere" with a llama and a sheep out front and a...

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Day 3 was the only day we didn't do a lot of driving.  We stayed put in Utah and did a little exploring! First stop was the Bean Museum.  I grew up visiting this museum often as a child and it is fun and free!  They have totally revamped it since then, too.  It is full of all sorts of animal exhibits and...

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Once we got our Krispy Kreme donuts and loaded into the car, we had another little chunk of driving to get us to my aunt and uncle's house in Utah.  But we took a nice long lunch break at a fast food joint with a play place.  Which was super nice.  And Vivienne's diaper leaked on Brett when he was carrying her back...

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Brett drove the moving truck up to Washington, and then flew back to Mesa on Sunday evening.  We spent some time with family and did a few final preparations. Monday morning, we woke up early to get on the road.  Our original itinerary, was to stop in Williams, AZ and go to Bearizona.  Then make our way up to Panguitch, UT--which is Brett's...

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Some random happenings from our first little bit in Washington... playing wiffle ball and the kids getting in some cousin time PB&Js at the picnic table soaking in the end of summer Just found these bookworms like this and my heart kind of melted A visit to the dairy to see the cows (and all the newborn baby cows too!) little adventurer, mules,...

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