Other Saint George Fun

This was our first real visit to Saint George and it really is a beautiful place. Not sure I could handle it in the summer, but it was nice and mild and we soaked it up. We visited the beautiful Snow Canyon. It was so fun climbing around on the petrified dunes and checking out the great views. The kids loved scampering around, and scavenging for cool rocks even though they seemed more obsessed with gravel parking lot than what they found on the hikes.

Henry refused to pose for any group shots because that is just who he is, but he still looks pretty awesome all on his own.

Nothing like beautiful kids in such a beautiful place.

Yep, Wyatt was snoozing away while I was trying not to fall down climbing the rocks.

Our awesome and handsome trail guide with his determined hiking group.

Everyone loves a good cave to climb into, except maybe Claire who was mad that everyone wouldn't give her more of her own space. She and Henry were the slowest walkers on both of our short hikes, but Claire made this one exciting by singing her own rendition of "Happy Birthday" and "We Will Rock You (and Flush You Down the Toilet)" on the walk back. I would always rather hang back with them, if that is the entertainment.

We also had a great little visit to the Saint George LDS Temple. It really is beautiful. We are still trying to figure out how they get it to be so stunningly white. There were a lot of people visiting the temple grounds that evening, so it was a little hard to get great photos, but it was beautiful.

Henry, Claire and Wyatt had fallen asleep in the car on the way over, so we let them rest a bit with Caleb. Mia, Libbie, Mallory and Gavin were great at posing and being happy together. Gavin kept picking out different spots and asking me to take pictures of them. Anytime.

We did lots of hanging out too, and since Caleb finally got a new phone and is now phone-twins with Nathan. There was plenty of obsessing about how cool their phones were. And plenty of nagging from their wives to get off the phone, or please stop watching the fancy GPS while driving. This picture is proof that Caleb was even trying to convince Jaren and Wyatt how cool his phone is. You can see they are more into eating a hat and sucking fists than coveting the phone.

Even though I was quite tired at the end, I really loved this trip. Running in the early morning with Stacy is always a favorite thing when we travel together, and I really got a chance to chat and catch up with the wonderful Cardon girls. The kids are usually busy cramming all the playing that they can into our time together. It was hilarious to watch Jaren get so excited to see Wyatt when we put them on the floor together. He would just squeal and try to dive for him. Always so nice to just hang out with Caleb and take a break from all of the things that make our lives crazy and busy. So grateful for the little moments that make me happy.