St. George

A couple of weeks ago, we decided to head to St. George for an over-nighter to celebrate Grandpa Charlie's b-day with him. We also wanted grandpa and grandma to meet Avery for the first time. We also went down to eat at Brick Oven Pizza to celebrate with Kallie that she passed off GAC (Great American Challenge) at school. GAC is an award that 5th graders can earn when they pass off a whole list of goals including the Star Spangled Banner, Preamble, US Presidents in Chronological order, Gettysburg Address and the States and Capitols. We were so proud of Kallie for this great accomplishment (and all the blood sweat and tears that she and I both put into the memorization) so we let her pick a special place for dinner. She picked St. George...smart girl huh!

While we were in St. George we went up to see the spring pond at the top of Main Street. It was so beautiful and the weather was perfect!

Self-portrait! Sydney has a "MOM" frame that she's needed a picture for the "O" part for months and months. Thanks to this picture and a Costco upload...the frame is now happily filled.

Grandma Patti holding little Miss Avery.

The birthday boy's turn with the baby.

I love how tiny Avery looks up next to Grandpa...I also love Kallie leaning on his arm. So sweet!

Grandma put Avery inside her hat just to see if she would fit...not only did she fit, but she loved the coziness of it and kicked back and totally relaxed in it.

House we drove by on Main Street on our way to the pond. I made Dan stop on the way back down so I could snap a picture...love it! If anyone knows who lives in this house...please ask if I can come inside for a tour!

The desert was blooming!

On Saturday, right before Grandma and Grandpa headed home, we stopped at Petroglyph Park in Bloomington. It was a tiny little park with a giant rock in the middle with tons of Petroglyph markings on it. We found out later that you're not supposed to climb on the lower rock because there are some markings there too...I promise we didn't know. Next time we stop we'll stay off!

Some of the Petroglyphs were amazing! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for meeting us for such a fun (but much too fast) weekend. Anytime you want to do it again...just let us know!

These pictures were not from St. George, but they were too cute not to share. For FHE a few weeks ago, we played with playdoh. I told everyone that they had to find a word in the scriptures and make it out of play-doh. When we guessed the word right, the sculptor read the scripture reference to the rest of us. This is Kallie's play-doh version of Moses parting the Red Sea (we all decided that her Moses looked a lot like Gru off Despicable Me and we got a great laugh out of it)!

Dan reminding us all to be "fisher's of men".

As a side note- TODAY WAS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! YAY!!! Flowers for teachers and pipe cleaners in the hair (we call it a hair party). I'm sleeping in tomorrow!