Escape to Sunny G

We made the President's Day weekend a little longer by driving to St George Thursday night and spending a full 4 days in the warmth and sunshine. It was so refreshing to feel the sun and play outside all day in the 60 degree temps. We cannot wait for spring up here!

Each day basically followed the same agenda: swimming, hiking and biking. And then eating, riding scooters, roaming the yard, and hunting for golf balls in between. Friday morning was the only day Luke was awake for swimming and he loved it. That boy is super easy to please though—love that about him! 

My Olivia was super proud of her most recent feat—jumping into the water and swimming to the side without her life jacket. Go Livs!

Joseph and I both went for bike rides and then took the kids up to the Dixie Red Rock park to roam and climb a bit before dinner.

Luke was so curious and right at home in this little cave. He tried to eat every rock and lots of sand while he checked it all out.

My parents arrived that evening and we got to play with them for the rest of the weekend—such fun for our whole family!

After Saturday morning's swimming adventure (my parents, Luke and I napped a little while Joseph took the bigger kids to the pool. He is such a good daddy!) we packed up and set out to find a new place to hike. We ended up at the Gunlock reservoir, started wandering around, and ran into some men on mules who pointed us toward a cool slot canyon. Such a fun, new, totally empty place to explore!

  

We found so much whitewashed wood and had a little fun with it

 We found the slot canyon easily enough but it was kind of funny how anxious it made Bentley. He was sure we were lost for 90% of the hike and kept waiting for us to find "the trail." So silly how 4 adults were not enough to convince him we knew just where we were even though there wasn't a set trail to follow. We stressed him out a bit—but I sure loved the whole outing. It was such a sunny beautiful day and the rocks and sand were so red and striking, just how I like my Utah deserts.

Later in the afternoon my parents stayed with the kids so Joseph and I could ride over to and up Snow Canyon. Such a pretty place to ride and I always love it up there. It was a good, hard route for me but I think it's always hard to ride a canyon for the first time—not knowing just what to expect and how much the road will actually rise/wear me out :) Next time will be a better, faster climb I am sure. It was nice to have my hubby with me encouraging me too. And riding in his hardest gear so he could still push himself at my pace—he is too tough!

My red face—a sure sign we're at the top!

We stayed in St George through Olivia's Monday morning birthday...more to come on that...