St. George Makes Me Happy

We went against all odds and vacationed in hot hot hot St. George August 9th-15th and when Benson smiled at me about half way into the trip and said, "Mommy, St. George makes me happy!", I knew it was all worth it! We never went a day without swimming, enough so that by Friday when I told him we were going swimming later on he actually said, "again?!" I drove down on Monday by myself with the kiddos, yes me and a 3 year old and an a 11 month old, and it was way less painful than I anticipated! We didn't stop once, and I truly have the iPad to thank for that :) We had fun just the 3 of us and Spence met us down there on Thursday making it that much more fun! Thanks to Pappa and Grandma for having such a fun place for us to stay!

This is the coolest water feature right smack dab off of Main Street in the heart of St. George-the kiddos loved it!

You'd never know it was 101 outside in this cool water!

Addie was having so much fun!






Does summer get any better than this?

We found the coolest park I've ever been to thanks to a tip from Bliss and Becky. I knew we were a bit crazy when we pulled up to the parking lot in 103 degree weather at 6pm and not a soul was in sight...but we were on vacation and well, we wanted to play!

Benson called this his castle

Addie took her first step just a few weeks ago-is it obvious

enough she's just getting the hang of it?

Who needs to go down feet first?

Can you tell it's hot?!

Benson loved throwing rocks into the waterfall across the street from the house

Round 2 of our new favorite park---this time Addie has a new look. She took 4-5 steps in a row for the very first time at the fountain off Main Street the day before-I was so excited that I didn't react fast enough when she did a face plant after sitting down from all those steps! Sorry babe! She really did a number on her poor little nose!

Yay! Daddy's here!

The Washington County Fair in Hurricane was the most unexpected fun we had the whole trip!

Yes, I realized after the ride had started that I put him on the back of the bike, not the front, but he didn't seem to mind!

Pine Valley-a fun little day trip to a very remote little town out of St. George

The Santa Clara Aquatics Center-or as Bridgett calls it-Dolly Parton :)

Benson loves to golf with his Daddy-and he's not half bad!

Benny thought this was hilarious!

We discovered this cactus on one of our morning walks and Benny thought it was the coolest thing ever---a mail box shaped like a cactus! Wow!

Thanks St. George!!! We'll be back :)

On our drive home we went back for the very first time to the spot where Spence proposed almost 6 years ago! So fun to now have our two little kiddos with us this time :)