St George Trip

This last weekend(June 22, 2012) we took a trip to St George with our friends, the Allen's (Dustin, Cassidy, Rylee and Miles).  Ellie loves to help pack.

And she found this great sombrero to occupy her while we packed:)

We headed out Friday afternoon.  It was great because we were able to fit all of us in the Allen's car.  It made it nice to be able to all be together and probably a much better trip for the kids to be able to ride by each other:)  When we got there we grabbed some dinner and headed to a park to get some energy out.  I was shocked because I really thought that Ellie would sleep most of the ride down, but she only slept maybe half an hour!  Cassidy has an Aunt with a place down there that we were able to stay at and it was perfect.  After getting the kids down for bed we just relaxed and watched the new Sherlock Holmes movie.

The next day, Cassidy, Rylee, Ellie and I headed over to the pool.  

I had quite the scare when Ellie decided to jump(walk down the steps and fall face first) into the pool.  It really scared me.  She is so independent and I am always keeping a close eye on her.  It freaked me out to see her like that.  She was fine and didn't even seem to be phased by it, but it really scared me!  We stayed and played for a while after and had a great time.  Ellie was a little more clingy to me, which was really good, and she even started really jumping off the edge into my arms after seeing Rylee do it.  

We picked up a Papa Murphy's pizza for lunch afterwards and the kids played around for a few minutes.  There was a room with bunk beds that Rylee and Ellie thought were great!  

 

 Then we headed out to Snow Canyon State Park for a little hike.  

We chose to hike Jenny's canyon, an easy trail, mostly for me...and the kids:)  It was beautiful and really a lot of fun.  The kids really enjoyed all of the dirt and fun little 'caves' they could play in.

King of the mountain!

The hike in and out of the canyon was sand...and it was HOT!  So the kids all got rides.  I am pretty sure I needed a ride too, but there just weren't enough arms:)

Then we headed over to the splash pad.  I had been hearing about how cool this splash pad was from a lot of people and was pretty excited to check it out.  It didn't disappoint!  It was the perfect set up for Ellie's age too.  She was able to explore and climb on everything.

They do have an actual splash pad part too and Ellie played a little in this.  It always takes her a while to warm up to the spraying water.  It was really fun to see her walk towards the middle and then when it was all spray out see her run as fast as she could away!

With a little convincing from Patrick she finally braved the waterfall.  I think she liked this the most.  She played for a long time in this area.  

We stopped and got a yummy snow cone after and then headed home to get the kids all cleaned up before dinner.  We had some Mexican food for dinner and then back to get the kiddos to bed before the musical.  Cassidy's brother was awesome to watch the kids for us and it worked out great because Ellie and Miles were both asleep by the time he came, so he only had to really worry about getting Rylee down.  

We went and saw the musical, Hairspray at the Tuacahn theater.  I really like this musical and was excited to see it at Tuacahn.  They did a great job and we had a really great time!  I would love to go and see more of the shows down there each year.

It was really convenient to have Cassidy's family from St George.  We were able to go to church with them and Ellie did great in nursery because Rylee was there.  Then they were kind enough to have us over for lunch/dinner before we headed home.  We had a really great time and it was nice to get away for a weekend and have some fun!