Thanksgiving in St. George

Thanks to our wonderful friends, Gary and Nikki, we were able to go to St. George this year to spend our Thanksgiving there. It was such a nice change and we enjoyed our time. We were able to go to a couple of different places to let the kids play around (not real hiking stuff, but perfect things for the kids and way cool things to see) We took lots of pictures of these two days and I really tried to narrow it down but there are still a ton of fun pictures I had to put in this blog. This first pictures are of the kids at a park called "Pioneer Park" (I am pretty sure that is what it was called).

Here's Derrek and Nathan on a rock they climb up.

Through out this park there were little alcove's, perfect for the kids to sit in, lay in and pose in. This is Rylie and Maci posing for a cute picture.

Derrek and Nathan in these perfect little Alcoves to lay in

Family Photo

The boys wanted to take turns taking a photo of Drew and I

This is our whole clan, minus me, I was taking the picture.

We were staring right at the sun, so this picture was a little difficult.

This is a pic of our CUTE friends Gary and Nikki and their little girl Maci

We went to this park after our Thanksgiving Feast and Gary was being quite the goof about how full he was. He kept sticking his gut out as far as he could so I had to snap a shot of it. this is the type of guy we had to put up with all weekend, VERY enjoyable.

The kids pretending to hold up this rock

This rock had perfect indents for rock climbing, so everyone gave it a try

Derrek

Nathan

Even Maci and Rylie tried. Rylie was the first and she never made it beyond one step

Rylie was up on this big rock and the easiest way to get her down was to drop her to Drew, but she decided just to jump to Drew--The trust a child has for her father.

Nate--what a poser!

It was such a cool picture of Nate, we got all the "boys" in there

The St. George Temple, and a glimpse of all the people that had the same idea as us.

This was a little shelter built in the rock, it was so cool inside. It is amazing the kinds of places people use to live in. This even had a fireplace.

Family photo-We went to Snow Canyon and hiked around a little before we had to go home.

This was such a cool place that we stopped by. On the left of the picture are names and dates written in axle oil of pioneers that crossed through here. There were tons of rock climbers here too and we watched them climb this huge mtn. for an hour. Too bad I didn't get any pics. of that, or how steep this thing is.

Quick family photo right before we packed up to go home. It was so much fun and we say our big thanks to Gary and Nikki once again for sharing your home with our family and your Holiday.