Spring Break 2014

This year for Spring Break we went to St. George.  My brother and his family were going to spend time with my parents, so we decided to go to, so the cousins could see each other.  And because the kids love hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  They live 15 mins. outside of St. George and there is so many fun things to do where they live, my kids love visiting them.  And was even better this year, because the cousins were there to make it more fun!

Here are just some of the fun things we did.

We went for a hike.  The hike was perfect for the kids and at the end they got to climb up the rocks to a grand overlook!  We were holding all the kids by their shirts to make sure no one fell off.  What a stressful situation with so many kids.. not enough hands :-)

Grandpa made sure the kids got their first taste of fishing.  My kids were so excited to do this.  They have this stocked pond where the kids were sure to catch a fish.  And they all did!  It was one of the highlights of the trip for sure.  Here is Hannah's fish.

And here are all the cousins with their fishing poles. 

We had to stop off at the Temple grounds and everyone got to touch the temple.  What a great bunch!

We decorated easter eggs.

And we went to the Rosenburch Wildlife Museum.  This is one of my kids favorite thing to do when in St. George.  They have so many animals to see and the museum is so well done.

We might have gone to Iceburg once or twice.  We love their shakes and ice cream.  And their fries are so good too!

My parents have a water feature in their front yard and my kids love to get rubber ducks and watch them slide down the water/rocks.  

We also always do s'mores in my parents "wall of fire".  This is after eating s'mores.

We rode the carousel in St. George while we were visiting their annual art festival.  

Everyone has horses were my parents live, so we had to find the neighbor's horses carrots.  Man do these horses love carrots.  They saw us coming and galloped to greet us.

Everyone also has ATVs, so we borrowed some and went for a ride.  Like the nice volcano in the background.  Seriously so much to do where my parents live.

We also made easter bags for the easter egg hunt.  Each kid got to make their own bag.  It is fun to see what each kid created.

We also decorated easter cookies, watched Star Wars with the cousins, the mom's went shopping at Tai Pan, we went hot tubbing, and much more.  It was such a fun spring break.  We decided to do it again next year... just a new location (somewhere closer to home :-)  Can't wait!