St. George 2016 with The Paces

As soon as school let out, Brigitte and I took the kids and went to St. George for the week.  Tyler's family has a house down there that the family all share and Brigitte thought it was a great idea to leave the husbands home to work and we take all the kids ourselves.  I wasn't sure how it was going to go and although it was a little tiring we had such a great trip.

We drove down on the Monday of Memorial Day.  So while everyone was driving into town we were just leaving.  We went at the perfect time too.  The beginning of the week was in the 90's and by the time we left it was 105.

We did A LOT of swimming.  And the best part was that the pool where the house is part of is an indoor pool.  Which means I didn't have to worry about putting on sunblock every time we went swimming.  The kids loved it and although everyone started of a little hesitant in the water, they all got braver and braver as the week went on.  Brigitte brought her 12 year old niece Maggie with her and it was so nice cuz she was so good to play and swim with all the kids.  My kids are still asking when we can invite Maggie over to come play at our house.

Each morning we tried to do a different activity. Then we would come back and give naps to those that needed it and go swimming. After dinner we watched movies, played on the back porch with chalk and water squirters, gave baths and tried to wrestle 6 kids to bed.  My girls, true to vacation form, decided to wake up early every morning.  Luckily they were pretty good to lay in my bed and watch videos on my tablet.  The first night I had them sleep in a different room together in a pull out bed.  They usually sleep fine in the same bed but this night I woke up at 4:30am to Siena screaming at Aria that she keeps touching her.  haha...although it wasn't really that funny at the time with a house full of people.  So after that they slept on the floor in my room and it worked out much better.  This picture is of Jaron so excited I let him sleep in the bed Aria and Siena were in after the first night.  He is pretending to be asleep.

One morning we went on a little hike/exploring.  We had so much fun and if it hadn't been so hot, we would've stayed there all day.  The kids all played hide and seek and had so much fun trying to find the best rock and 'cave' to hide in.

2 different mornings we went to the splash pad.  I was surprised both Jaron and Siena went to the 'big kids' part of the splash pad and were having fun one of the days.

Another morning we went to the park.  Although I kind of block this one out because Jaron rubbed sunscreen in his eye and ended up crying the entire hour we were there.  He's still traumatized and blames me for putting sunscreen in his eye.  We also went and saw the movie Zootopia.  The kids ate a ton of popcorn and I'm pretty sure my kids didn't understand the plot of the movie at all, but they liked the cute characters.

We also had dinner in the park one night followed by a carousel ride.

I also took my kids to visit my Grandma and Grandpa Goold's graves.  They loved hearing about my grandma that had red hair.

Saturday morning we packed and cleaned up and drove home.  Although my drives were pretty peaceful, poor Brigitte had cute Quinnten who does NOT like car rides and screamed almost the whole time.  Also, I apparently need to find someone a little taller to take a picture of Brigitte and I...or I need to lean down so I don't get my head cut off!

We hope to make this a yearly tradition.  Thanks Brigitte and Pace family for a great trip.  We had a blast.