~Spring Break in St George~

We had to get away from all the cold weather and snow, so we decided to head to St George over spring break and stay at Jerry and Darinda's house.  It was a lot of fun.  Jerry had a lot of fun new 4 wheeling trials to show us.  Hunter is getting to be quite the little driver (he scared me because he was a little dare devil).  He had so much fun riding 4 wheelers, I think we did that all 5 days we were there.

Lexi, Garrett, and Mckell in the back of Big Red (the picture is blurry cause I'm taking the picture through the plastic windows :))

Jerry took us to the place where he and Darinda repelled into the slot canyon.  The kids had fun climbing around and looking over the cliffs (which I think made uncle Wayne a bit nervous, lol)

This was a pretty steep cliff to go down.  Not everyone did it. Jerry had a rope to help us climb out of this slot canyon.  It is where he and Darinda began when they went repelling.  I can proudly say that I made it down and back up (although for a minute I didn't think I was going to make it back up the mountain). It was so steep and I didn't have a good place to hold on to.  If it weren't for Dave giving me a boost, I'd still be down in that canyon.

Hunter got pretty dirty from all the 4 wheeling we did.

Marley loved getting out and running.

The kids loved playing in the Virgin River.  They really had a lot of fun trying to skip rocks across the river.  Lexi was throwing one in and for some reason ended up throwing it right at my head.  Hurt like crazy!

Even Garrett loved being out in the sun.

When we weren't riding 4 wheelers we had fun playing at Jerry and Darinda's. The kids had fun dressing up in costumes, playing in the yard, going out to eat, and going to see the St George temple.  We even drove into Vegas one evening to see the lights and to ride Big Shot on top of the Stratosphere.  When we got there it was still light, so we decided to go see the Shark exhibit at Mandalay Bay.  The kids thought it was pretty cool. My parents even joined us for the day. 

 

 

Lexi didn't dare touch the mantarays :)  She would however put her hand in the water, as long as a mantaray wasn't near, lol.

 

 

Hunter's favorite thing about Vegas was definetely the Big Shot.  He wanted to go on it again.  We would have let him if it weren't already 12:30 a.m., and we still had to drive 2 hours back to St George.  It was a fun get away, and we were lucky to spend it with both sets of Grandparents.