Spring Break

For spring break I took the kids down to St. George to visit my fabulous sister-in-law Michele. I figured I could handle a four hour drive and four day trip with four boys and no hubby. I had threatened my boys that I would call Michele and tell her I was too tired to do this trip and turn around and go home if they weren't helpful and were fighting. We didn't have any problems! Ethan was a HUGE help. He sat in the front the entire way. He was super funny. When we had 119 miles left he began telling me every mile that we were a mile closer. I think he only missed about 5 miles from 119-0. He was really excited.
As soon as we walked in the door my kids asked to go swimming. So we changed our clothes and went swimming. It was a little breezy but the boys had fun.

The next day we went to this fantastic park. We stayed there for two hours. They have lots of fun things that aren't found at typical parks. I think this was Ethan's favorite thing. He never seemed dizzy when getting off. I don't know how he could spin around so many times.

Ryan would sit up at the top of this thing and yell, "I'm on top of the world!"


Andrew loves stepping down curbs and I think he did this the majority of the time we were there.

We took the kids to the St. George Temple visitor center. It was so fun to be there with them. This has been one of my most favorite temples for a long time. On Thursday morning I got up early and went and did initiatory. It was such a sweet experience to be in that temple. I kept thinking of the conference talk by L. Tom Perry in October 2009 I feel like these older temple are so sacred and being there was one of my highlights of my trip.

This is the best picture we can get with four squirmy boys.

On Saturday we went to the kite festival. It was so fun. So the last few pictures are from that. We let each kid have 3 tickets. Michele bought them all kites before we came down. They loved trying to fly them minus the help from the wind.

Of course I can't go to something like this and not get cotton candy.

Ryan went on this little ride and loved it.

WE had so much fun in St. George. Thank You so much Michele and Dan.