St. George Vacation

We had a great week in St. George. The weather was crazy mild for St. George in July. When we got out of church today in Boise Scott said he thought it was hotter here than when we got out of church in St. George. Well he was right. It's 109 in Boise today and I don't think it got over 101 the whole time we were in St. George. It was crazy! I loved it. We were actually able to go outside here and there without wanting to die. One day it was 80 degrees. 80 degrees! It was so great. I was able to sleep in and still go for a walk nearly every morning without frying to my death.

The kids had a blast playing with their aunts and uncles and Nana and Papa. The biggest hit was 15 month old cousin Greta. Gabby especially couldn't get enough of her. She was constantly by her side trying to dance with her or chase her around the room.

Corbin loved swimming. He is a fish! He swam as much as he possibly could. Sometimes swimming 4 hours straight. He didn't wear a life jacket the entire week. Granted the pool was very small but he is a good little swimmer. He also loved watching a kid show in the movie theater room with snacks and playing video games with the big kids. He was a huge fan of the snack closet and was often found rummaging around in it.

Gabby loved the kids room that had a lot of toys for her to play with. She was not a big fan of swimming and screamed like she was being stabbed to death when I tried to get her to swim to me with her life jacket on. I was able to persuade her to swim with me a few laps with her life jacket on while I held on to her. I got her to put her face in the water and blow bubbles about 10 times the whole week. She loved dancing with Greta and having an unlimited supply of fruit snacks and fish crackers.

Piper loved swimming. She was also a little fish. She swam with her arm floaties by herself all over the pool. She kicked, kicked, kicked and loved it. She also loved having someone to give her full attention at all times. Papa was especially good for that. She also like playing left, right, center with Nana. She loved eating lots of grapes.

Ryan kind of liked the pool sometimes for awhile. He was mostly a big fan of finding any leaf he could get his hands on to try to eat and choke on. He especially liked the restaurant Ninja where he ate rice and sauteed vegetables until everyone was done and I had to finally cut him off so we could leave.

Scott loved playing video games especially when at least 4 of them could play at the same time. He enjoyed watching some of Gettysburg in the theater room and hiking with Corbin.

I loved watching my kids have so much fun all week. I loved swimming, playing games, going to the movies, and eating snacks. I too was often found in the snack closet rummaging around. I may or may not have gained a few pounds last week. Ha!

Cuties!

Hiking adventure

So cute! I love that she has Carole's purse in this picture. 

Scott's most favorite moment was probably when his mom joined in for a bit of zombies action.

At our pit stop in North Ogden Scott found a HUGE caterpillar. You can't tell from this picture but that thing was so fat.

We drove from St. George to Boise straight yesterday. With 2 pit stops it took us 10 hours. Long day! The kids did pretty darn well. The car was especially peaceful when all 4 clunked out at the same time.

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