Whirlwind Trip With Brynn and Mom. And the Fillmore Territory State House.

I had a situation where I had to go help a family member in court.

In St. George.

On a Friday morning.

Being that I work where I do, my boss was pretty understanding that this was something I needed to go and do.

It would be a whirlwind trip, drive down Thursday after work, crash with my parentals, hit court in the morning, take my mom out to lunch for mother's day, and be home by dinner on Friday.  A mere 24 hours.

I figured Brynn could use some punishment and invited her to go with me.

I was thinking about how Tay had done the Color Run (here) and General Conference (here) with me, I had spent the day in Jr. High (here) with Cas and a trip to the temple (here and here), and I had just been on Cali's field trip (here).  In my reckoning  it was Brynn's turn for some one on one.

So we loaded up on junk food, grabbed a bag of clothes, made sure we had books to read in case the court process was a long one, and we hit the road.

The sunset driving down was gorgeous.

We hit Grandpa Dick's and Grandma KC's at about 11:00 that night.  Grandpa and Grandma came out of their room, sleepy eyed, and hugged us, gave us blankets, informed us we'd be going out to breakfast the next morning, and shut off the lights.

By the way, they have the best couching for sleeping on.  The Man and I usually take it when we visit, leaving The Circus with the blow up mattresses.

Brynn was excited to be able to sleep on that perfect couch that night.

The next morning we hit The Wagonwheel for breakfast, because frankly, it wouldn't be a trip to St. George without breakfast at the Wagonwheel. We checked out an antique shop and we did our thing at the courthouse.

We combined a celebratory lunch with a Mother's Day lunch at La Frontera with Aunt McKell and Uncle Scott who were also there for the court thing and with happy Mother's Day wishes to my mom, we hit the road to head home.

We stayed with Aunt McKell and Uncle Scott through Beaver

where we found Brynn the most giant sucker ever,

and then Brynn and I split off and stopped in Fillmore to see the Territory State House.

I had no idea that Fillmore used to be Utah's capitol.  Apparently it was chosen due to being geographically the center of Utah.  They held one legislative session there and then after that it was voted to be moved to Salt Lake where most everyone was living anyway.

Because of moving the capitol to Salt Lake the building in Fillmore was never finished.  Below shows what it was planned to be, the colored wing being all that there actually is of it.

Apparently traveling across the state and back in a 24 hour time span, with your mom, is exhausting.

 Thanks B for being my travel companion in this.

I hope to be able to spend more one on one time with my kids, and I hope they all know how much the mean to me.

Also, we need more family trips out and about, because that's what we do, we travel.  I foresee a family camping trip in our near future.  Anyone want to go with us? :)