St George Vacation

A few months ago, we were together and our kids starting talking about a family vacation.  They were thinking about Mexico, but decided that St. George would be a little closer and easier to do with such short notice.  Jamie and Emily had some fun ideas of things to do there, and  Merijane got online and found us some more fun places to go.

 

We arrived Thurs. afternoon, and the big and middle girls went with Krista, Merijane, Josh and Mike to a fun Escape Room.  Lani and I took the little kids to the Children's Museum.

It's Matt's busiest time at work so he wasn't able to come.  :(

Jamie and Jordan were in Disneyland with her family, so they didn't get to come.  We sure missed them, but knew they were having fun celebrating her mom's 60th birthday!

Molly was at girls camp, (we brought Kelsi and Abi with us, but the rest of their family came Friday.)

Thursday night we went out to dinner and then to the pool for a swim. 

Friday morning we headed to Snow Canyon, such a beautiful place.  We did a couple of short hikes and enjoyed hanging out in the slot canyons that were nice and cool!

 

Friday afternoon, Jamie's family arrived and it was off to the pool again

The kids would have spent every spare minute there if they could have.

Saturday morning, a few of us got up early and went to the beautiful St. George Temple.

Jamie performed the baptisms and confirmations (and took our pictures)

After we got home, we went to Gunlock Falls.  It was incredible!

We had a little hike to get there, but WOW, so worth it!

We stayed at a beautiful VRBO in Coral Ridge. 

 The kids loved playing games and watching movies when they weren't swimming or eating.

Sunday morning we went to church, then went to visit Brigham Young's winter home.

We learned lots of interesting things about him.

We took Lani to her shuttle so she could head home and be ready for work Monday morning.          She is so fun to have along on vacations.

Monday morning we took off for Sand Hollow State Park.  We spent the day there, it was awesome.  Josh's family have 5 Kayaks, 5 huge tubes and the kids had a blast on them.  

Jamie and Josh's families packed up when we got home from the lake and headed for home.  They both needed to be to work on Tues.  Krista's family and Mike and I watched movies that night and got a good night sleep before leaving Tues morning.  It was a wonderful trip and so fun to discover such beautiful places that we had never seen in St. George before!