St. George 2013

Get ready for a picture overload! We had a ton of fun on our short getaway and managed to take a ton of pictures. Most of them were from my phone, since hauling around our nice Cannon camera gets kind of obnoxious after awhile. My grandma, McKenna and I drove down on Thursday night to meet my parents, Carter, and his friend Josh. Right when we got into St. George we stopped and had dinner at Smashburger, then headed to the house for the night. That next morning we woke up and made a trip to the Bear Paw Cafe. It ended up being nearly a 2 hour ordeal after we waited forever for a table but it was totally worth it!! That place is always super amazing for breakfast.

We walked around the old town square while waiting for our table. The little splash pad is always a nice place to sit and enjoy the warm weather.



My mom loved these little dandelion statues they had in the park.

Grandma, McKenna and I went out after breakfast to do some shopping. On our way back we stopped at Swig where we got some treats and two sugar cookies.



Grandma thought it was hilarious to shove the cookie in McKenna's face.... haha.

Later that day we went and hung out at the pool.



We went to dinner at 25 On Main and it didn't disappoint. Always good food!!

Since the house doesn't have any furniture yet, we hung out at the clubhouse before going to bed. We played pool, hung out, and just enjoyed the company and having no obligations or anything to do.

The next morning my grandma, Carter, Josh and I went up and hiked around Dixie Sugarloaf. The views are amazing up there! I let Carter have control of the camera most of the day, but he actually ended up taking some pretty decent pictures.



After we got home and showered up we made the drive down to Las Vegas. We had tickets to see Mystere that night!! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of that, but here are a few of lunch and walking around the Bellagio.

We ate at Serendipity 3 at Caesar's Palace. Does it seem like I'm a bit obsessed with food? Because I kinda feel like I am...




My mom will probably kill me for this picture but I can't get over how funny her face is! These frozen hot chocolates were delish!!









The show was SO cool! So lucky that my dad gave us the opportunity to see it. I would highly recommend it.

Overall the trip was a huge success! It felt like it went by super fast though. I'm in denial that I have to go back to work in the morning...I wish that Riley would have been able to come with us, but I guess someone has to be a responsible adult and work, right?? (Very last picture, I promise) But here is Carter and Josh on the car ride back home on Sunday. They zonked out pretty much the entire ride back. I guess that's a sign that they had fun, right?!

Easter Weekend 2013

It seems like Easter weekend came and went SO fast!! We held a community Easter Egg hunt for my property early on Saturday morning, and it turned out so well! We had a HUGE turn out (much bigger than we had anticipated), so we ended up having to almost double the amount of refreshments we bought. We had stuffed over 500 eggs, and when all was said and done each kid only ended up with about 8 eggs each. Riley was a huge help by waking up early and coming up to lend a hand. It was a good time, and I hope the residents enjoyed it. After a good 10 hour workday I came home and just wanted to take a nap. Riley had made plans with his dad for us to go to dinner and then a movie, but I slept while they went to Café Rio and then they came and picked me up to go see The Host. I thought it was pretty good, but I hear it got mixed reviews. Sunday morning we went to church, came home and headed over to Riley's parents house. They were having an Easter dinner and then a small egg hunt for the grandkids. I don't know who put Tommy and Riley in charge of hiding the eggs. This is pretty much how it went. The grandkids (minus baby Odin) before the hunt!! This was the best picture I could get of them (mostly) looking at the camera.

Little Odin was too busy jumping on the trampoline or playing with Uncle Riley to care too much about the eggs.

After the egg hunt we went up to my parents house for (another) Easter Dinner!! We always get so spoiled on Sundays and sometimes end up eating two yummy meals. For the special occasion, my parents made ribs! They were delicious. My dad was pretty happy about the result, as you can see here.

We had fun spending time with our families and remembering the meaning of Easter. The weather was perfect, the food was delish, and the company was even better. We're pretty lucky!