Fall Break in St George

This year for fall break the girls and I went down to St. George. We haven't been there for over a year! I don't know what's wrong with me, of course it could be argued that I've been a little busy this summer. But since our Stake split and I was released from Stake YW's, and because I get the same vacations as the girls, thanks to my job at the school, and I took time off with Hallmark, I was able to take a much needed vacation.

The girls were so excited. They asked if they could take their swimsuits even though the pool would be cold. I warned them it would be very cold, but they didn't care. Thursday when we got to St. George, the first thing Kylee and Samantha wanted to do was go swimming. I warned them again, that the pool would be cold, but they seemed to love every minute of it. They probably played in the pool 4 times each day for about 15 minutes each time. It was usually around the 15 minute mark that their bodies started shaking uncontrollably and their lips turned blue (mother of the year), but hey, we are on vacation.

Kylee and Samantha testing out the water

Samantha wrapped in a towel, but still not able to pull herself away from the pool.

On Friday we decided to go see Brigham Young's House. We have been going to St. George several times each year for the last 10 years and this was our first time actually seeing the house. We had a good time visiting with the Sister Missionaries, it has always been fun to see missionaries, but now that Kyle is on his mission it makes me love missionaries even more than before. Grandma and Grandpa Smith were in St. George with us, so they came along. The girls actually really liked the tour and asked some great questions at the end, most of the questions the missionaries didn't know the answers to, but they are new missionaries, one had only been out for 2 weeks, so we didn't mind.

Me and the girls on the porch of Brigham Young's House
Grandma and Grandpa Smith with the girls.

After we went to Arbys for lunch, and Kylee decided to show off her mad skills. This is her impersonation of a saber tooth tiger...I think. My mom is easily entertained, as you'll see in the 2nd picture down ;). In fact this gave us all a good laugh.

After lunch my parents went to Las Vegas for the night, because they can, and the girls and I went on some little hikes. We had a great time. A funny story about these next few pictures...The girls had climbed up these rocks, because they love to climb and pose for pictures. After I took the pictures all the girls easily climbed out of the rock, except for Sadie. She decided to try to get out of the rock going backwards and got stuck. Of course being the good mom that I am, I had a good laugh, then made sure all the girls saw how Sadie was stuck and that they had a good laugh, then I took a picture, then I helped Sadie get down. I'm pretty sure that's the order all moms would take care of this situation.

You're probably wondering where the picture is of Sadie hanging off the rock? She swore she'd kill me if I posted the picture, so I decided not to post it, but I'll figure out how to work it in somewhere, someday.

Here we are above the Dixie looking down on St. George. It was so beautiful. I love how white the temple is. They have a nice path and bridge that takes you up to this point above the DIXIE, but Kylee and Sadie wanted to climb up the "old" way. Kylee loved it, but made it look easy. Sadie was a little nervous, but they both did it.

We had a great time, and the next few pictures are just from walking around the park. My girls actually like having their pictures taken. It's a win win really.

We had a very relaxing time. Mikayla got to make a lot of jewelry and helped Kylee and Samantha make some too. She such a great big sister, when she wants to be :)

I can't wait to go back.