St. George... NO KIDS!!!

This last week I got one of the best gifts any mother could ask for!  My parent's took the kids from Monday through Thursday so Dave and I could get some time away.  It was SO nice!  We decided to take advantage of St. George so we could get some sun and heat but not be too far from home since it's mom's first time with Chlo and the pump.   When we got to St. George on Monday night it was raining really hard!  Because I LOVE the rain, this was okay for me.  While eating dinner at Bajio's - it turned to hail...  From what I understand this is actually better than what everyone back home was getting - they had snow!  Enough that the girls and grandma were able to make a snowman!!!  Dave and I had a great time shopping, eating, watching movies, eating, extra sleep, eating, and even some hiking in snow canyon, not to mention eating.  The bad (or good depending on how you look at it) thing was we really didn't eat one healthy thing the whole time we were there... Oops...  I finished off a whole package of oreos, Dave downed a few packages of chips and some 2 liters of pop... the list could go on and on - for dinner on Thursday night we even shared a bag of carmel popcorn... It was nice to come home and have a "normal" meal with fruit and veggies.  As much as I missed the girls it was so nice not to have any responsibilities.  Even the girls told us when we got to grandma's that they wanted us to turn around and go back to St. George so they could stay.  I feel so lucky to have such amazing parents that would be willing to take the girls for us so we can have the opportunity to get away.  From what I understand the girls got to build snowmen, watch movies, have tea parties, put on shows, Bean museum, out to a theater to see "How to train your Dragon" - in 3-D no less, host a FHE for Uncle Brian's ward, and much more!  I don't blame them for not wanting to come home.  All we did today was go to the store and make strawberry jam...

This is one of the only pictures we have of both of us.  This was on our hike in Snow Canyon.

This was a pretty interesting place.  I loved how the rocks looked.  Fun to climb too! :)

Okay, so I cringe every time I look at this picture.  On Tuesday night Dave and I decided to get in the hot tub at about 11pm.  The water wasn't very warm so every time the "heating" jets blew out hot water we'd huddle down by them and put as much of our body by them as possible.  We did this several times.  One of the times Dave started FREAKING out.  He said he just had something small and squishy fly into his hands.  He was sure it was a mouse or frog...  We couldn't tell because the jets were on high.  He jumped out of the hot tub at lightning speed.  Once I turned off the jets I went back to check things out... Yep - it was a boiled frog.  NASTY!!!  I honeslty get the dry heaves every time I look at the picture and think about us taking a soak in the "Frog stew"  If you look close in the picture you can see the dead frog at the bottom of the hot tub.  Dave says he'll never get in again... :)

On Tuesday we went shopping all day!  We even drove down to the Las Vegas outlets.  It was great - didn't have to mess with any of the strip stuff but still got to shop!  I have to admit though, the shopping wasn't that great.  I felt like the shopping at home was just as good.  Dave was a great sport though and shopped with me most of the day.  We didn't even do that much damage to the checking account :)

I love doing pictures in photo booths so when I spied one in the St. George mall, I HAD to do it.  Because I didn't have exact cash I ended up buying some $2 gel from a hair place... Sort of frustrating but it was worth it.  The pictures are terrible - but have fun memories.