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!