London, day 2

 

 

This day we packed it in! We saw and did everything. We started by walking across the London Bridge to the Burrough Market, the cutest little farmers market type deal, where we had breakfast and walked around. We then made our way by train and taxi to Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Tower of London, and the London Eye. We saw the Crown Jewels with hardly anyone there and it was amazing. So much history and amazing stories in these places. Westminster Abbey was really neat too. We had wanted to do the London Eye at Sunset, but needed to hurry for our dinner plans, so we went earlier. However, on our way down, we had timed it just perfectly to see the most stunning sunset over the whole city. Accidentally, our plans worked. We then had dinner at an Argentinian restaurant on the west end and headed to the play Hamilton. We have all seen it before, but it was fantastic. Especially fun to see it in England, and their cast I think was my favorite I've ever seen. It capped off a perfect day. 

Favorites of the day: crown jewels with no line, London Eye sunset, and Hamilton. 🔥

LONDON! Day 1

Since I'm now on a 10 hour flight back home and I have nothing better to do, let's recap our most magical time in England! 

This was our every other year 360 Landscapes trip, something I always look forward to. The company is always amazing- we travel so well together & have a ton of laughs, adventures, and the best conversations. I'm filled with awe at how amazing the world is out there and that I get to see it.

We had a direct flight from SLC that left at 5 PM and put is into London about 3 AM our time, 10 AM theirs. Thanks to a little ambien, we all got a little sleep on the flight and we wanted to use our time wisely, so we just hit the ground running when we got there. We did a Hop on Hop off Bus and got the lay of the land. We said several times how amazing it was. We stopped at a local pub for lunch, saw the London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace (plus the changing of the Guards!) and all the sites. We went straight from there to a Crystal Palace soccer game (when in Rome, right?) that night. The atmosphere was electric and it was so much fun. We learned some new ways to call others names at the game, some of which i wont say here. But we did learn "sausages!!" Is a good one when your team is performing poorly and you want to call them out. Haha. It was so late by the time we got done that we went straight to bed in our little flat right by the London Tower. 

Favorites of the day: top of the tour bus, front row, looking out the big glass windows at the entire city around us. Amazing. And, fearful he would be cold, Landon's 7 layers he wore to the soccer game, when two would have sufficed. :)  

 

Jan 2026

Since I made a goal to be off social media for the entirety of 2026, I am going to try to update the blog once a month with happenings, unless something big happens, then it may get it's own post. Who knows. I never posted about Portugal or Christmas, but whatever, we are moving on. 

Basketball:

Hallie has games twice a week for Clearfield. This has taken a big chunk of our month. She is doing great and her best game came against her former team, Northridge. Wahoo. We have enjoyed watching her play and develop and so glad for the new year at the new school. 

We also went down and watched our nephew Grady play basketball. It was a fun game and great to see him!

Flor's Birthday! 

Flor turned 21 on Jan 6. Can you believe it?! 21!!! We had a party at the Kaysville theater and rented it out so we could watch the live action Lilo and Stitch. We had about 50 friends come and had a great time. We had cake and ice cream at home, even though she is not a fan of either. Her favorite gift is a Lilo sweater from my friend Brenda. She hauled that around for days. Happy 21, Florinda! Wow- she is so old!!!

the only picture we took at the movie- and it wasn't actually me. Paris's mom took it. She is good at remembering to take pictures!

Lizzie misc: 

Cutest cousins in the hot tub

She is always making some sort of face. This was at activity days.

Sleepover with cousin Audrey. Do you think they have enough stuffies?

Family Date Nights:

Our plan is to have at least 2 family date nights per month! This month we had milkshake taste test (Dairy Queen was the winner, in case you wonder!) And the Utah Jazz game- Jace did not get to come because he was flu b +, but Lizzie's friend Nora got to come instead! We had a great time. 

Kim/Devin misc:

ICU shout out board- :) 

Hikes all the time, of course. This one in a blizzard- it was lovely

My friend Jeremy "retired" from ORMC. He is a pharmacist and a good friend. I miss him a lot.

Overnighter with Mel and Annette. We ate great food, had pedicures, watched Song Sung Blue, went to the outlets, and had lunch. Best time with the best friends. 

Hockey game in the Pineview suite. Devin was there too- why is he not in this picture?

Sometimes he hikes with me too

Finished my Portugal puzzle Jana gave me for Christmas. It was HARD!

hockey game, round 2 with Trent and Brandi

Big highlight of the month right here for me! Beautiful Noise with the women in the family. It was amazing, just like the first time we saw it on Broadway!

Stellar group of women

Dinner with Kim and Meg, who I had not seen for 18 months. Love them dearly.

I have taken up running (2026 goals ya know?) I hate it and made Devin go with me once. He hated it too.

Hockey Round 3. Apparently we like hockey! Devin nd Jace got to go to a game with Landon and Hudson and had a great time.

Phew, that's that! February here we come!