Soooooo Behind & Utah Trip {Day Four}

Wow, its amazing how far behind I get on my blogging in such a short amount of time. We have had an amazingly fun and full summer! Life is good. I cannot complain. I'm happy to fall behind in my blogging because I'm just out having fun with the fam!
So, back to catching up. I've really got to move through the Utah trip because there have been like 2 "trips" since then! I know, we get around, what can I say?
Day Four- we spent the day in downtown Salt Lake City. I started out the day by driving my husband crazy, being a backseat driver. Yeah, I know better. But, what can I say, sometimes my mouth wins out over the flashing warning signs going off in my brain! But, he still loves me. We still had a fun day. He's a good man. It didn't help that I had a SERIOUS case of PMS the entire week I was up there. Not sure what would have been worse, PMS, or DMS (that stands for DURING menstrual syndrome, for those of you who don't know). Needless to say, I was a little short with other family members while there too. I have already apologized. Again, the mouth sometimes wins out, no matter how hard I try.
I digress. We got to downtown, and headed for Temple Square to the visitor's center. We tried really really hard to walk around quietly inside the North Visitor's Center with SEVENTEEN children, but we were not too successful. We managed to snap a few pics in front of the Christus Statue before we realized, we really needed to feed the masses.

The following picture is "the masses" that I speak of (minus baby Josh-Bob). I love them. And this is only HALF of my Heaps family nieces and nephews!!!

So, we escaped on a train ride over to (I forgot the name of the place- dang brain fart!) where the planetarium is. We found the food court, fed the masses and made it to the Planetarium farely unscathed.

This is not a picture of us at the planetarium (just in case you didn't notice!). My loading of pictures onto blogger is not up to par, obviously. A sweet photo of the masses in front of the Salt Lake Temple...I explained to J that the big tall building was the church office building where the Prophet worked. He was so astonished. He got so excited and decided that he was going to walk into the building and see President Monson, because he knew that President Monson would want to see him.
We explained to him that the prophet is a really busy guy, and that he probably wouldn't even be there. But, he was determined to go and ask.
So, J and Brian went off into the church office building. But, alas, he was not there. James came out of the building very disappointed. But he got over it pretty fast and started playing with cousins again.

Here we are, at the Planetarium. J and B, very serious about their visit to the moon...The kids had a lot of fun there. We got to ride in the biggest elevator I have EVER seen in my life, we got to walk on mars and the moon. All in the same afternoon. Who knew?

Two of my sistas and my sweet honey...

I think the train ride back and forth was a highlight for the day for some of the littles. These pictures are WAY out of order. This shot is most of the masses. Jody took this of the kids lined up next to the fountain in front of the Church Office Building. Only J and Josh-Bob are not pictured. (J is still a little disappointed about not seeing President Monson and Josh-Bob can't sit up on his own yet!)