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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Let Summer Begin... (The Zoo, the Fair, and a Dance Recital)

We had a pretty awesome weekend.  Oh how we love the summer! Thursday night was family night at the South Jordan Fair, so we had to go.  The girls had a blast riding on all of the rides!  Their favorite ride was the Ferris Wheel. 
  
 
 
 
 On Friday, we went to the zoo with Grandma for "Fun Friday".  They have a pretty cool dinosaur display going on right now which the girls really enjoy.  Mckenzie has become so curious about everything.  She wants me to read every sign about every animal and comes up with some pretty tough questions. 
 
 
 
Hailey loved this baby dinosaur and thought it was so cool how it's eyes moved.  She could have sat and watched it all day! 
 
 
Then on Saturday, we had our final Dance Recital for the year.  The girls did great.  They are definitely performers!  They love to get all dressed up, dance on the big stage, and of course, they were super-excited about the flowers and trophies they got when it was all over!  We had a great first year of dance! 
 
 

 
 

 


Saturday, June 6, 2015

Family Vacation!

 
We go to St. George every year with my family for a vacation.  We usually spend most of our time boating at Sand Hollow, but this year was a bit colder than usual.  Of course, we still went boating.  Yes, the temperature was only in the high 70's, and yes, the water was really cold, but there were hardly any other boats around and the water was glass!  We all took our turns wakeboarding and skiing and then the girls got their turn on the tube!
 
 
 
 
 
It was the perfect weather for hiking and we did a lot of it!  Here we are hiking at Red Cliffs.  There was a lot of water in the pools this year, so it was a lot of fun.  Hailey had to be in front the whole hike, of course!
 
 
 
Playing around with slow motion...
 
 






 
 
 

Next, we went to "Crack Mountain" (as Kenzie calls it).  I don't really know what it is called, but the girls love hiking through the crack.  While we were here it started to pour.  I have never been there in the rain and it was definitely an experience.  At first, we just camped out under a little arch, and then a little bigger cave.  Then we just braved the rain and made it back to our car.  It was crazy to see all the rain coming off the red rocks... it was like a flash flood, waterfalls everywhere... and yes, we were all soaked!


 
 
We ended up coming back another day and finished what we started...
 
 
 
 
We also explored Snow Canyon.  We did the Three Ponds trail, which was a little long for the girls and had a lot of sand.  But, we made it and the girls had fun walking barefoot and jumping off any rocks we could find.   We also saw blooming cacti which was pretty cool!






  After our long hike, we took the girls to the Sand Dunes and just let them play. 





Last, but not least, my dad and Danny went and did a little exploring in the underground caves.  I even convinced Mckenzie to come down and explore a bit!  (Pretty brave!)
 


 And of course, we did a lot of swimming at the condo!  We had a great trip!  It is always fun to get away from normal life and spend some fun time with one another.  It is also always hard to come back to reality!