.grizzly peak trail.

I'd been anxious to get up the canyon and do some hiking while the colors were so beautiful. Seems like they only last a few weeks or so. After we got back from Salt Lake Josh was waiting for us and we went up the canyon and walked along the Grizzly Peak Trail straight east of our house. The trail is very wooded and narrow and meandered back and forth up the canyon. The colors were beautiful, the hills were on fire!

Poor Gage had a rough go on our hike that day. He tripped and fell flat, sprawled out on the ground three separate times! The third time Josh told me to get a picture of the pathetic little thing! :) Poor guy, we couldn't help but smile.

At the bottom of our hike we stopped and played in the pond for awhile. TJ showed off his skipping rock skills and everyone of the kids managed to get their shoes wet.

.fathers day.

No waffle breakfast in bed with his Father's Day present, a new waffle machine this year. (We gave that to him the week before.) But, I still think Josh had a pretty terrific Father's Day. After breakfast at the hotel, we packed up to go home. We stopped at Pioneer Park on the way home. It was up along the foothills of St. George. Besides the swimming and the show I think this place was our favorite.

Basically the Park was just lots of crevasses and rocks to jump all over and play on. The craziest spot was this place called the narrow. Um, yeah. You could say it was narrow!!! Holy cow.

It was just this crazy narrow spot that if you were thin enough, brave enough and not claustrophobic you could shimmy your way through. I went it just a tad to see what it was like and promptly squeezed back out again. No way you could get me to go through there. So good thing the kids have Josh who sqeezed his way through after them. It was so tight in a spot he had to get right down near the floor to get through. Brynn even when through, she did fine but I don't think she knew what she was doing.

Here's a video, which doesn't do it justice...but its a little better than the photos.

I went around and met them at the top. I think the boys went through it twice more!

The view was so pretty from the top, you could see all of St. George and into Arizona.

I am so grateful for Josh and what a wonderful example and Father he is to our babies. They are so lucky to have him!

.more st. george fun.

We slept in a little bit on Saturday. We enjoyed the yummy continental breakfast our hotel offered, backed up the car with snacks and water, put on our hiking shoes and left for our morning at Snow Canyon. Again, this was a place we visited before, but it was alot different fun with the kids. The boys loved climbing on anything and everything they could. Brynn whined much of the way. She did trip and fall a few times, so that made her a little edgy. Brynna and I waited alot in the shade and enjoyed sunflower seeds while the boys would take off on little side trails and climb. It was pretty hot so it was nice to sit awhile.

We then picked up Subway for lunch and went over the Sand Hollow State Park. The have a beautiful lake and sand dunes to ride motorcycles. I told Josh this much be what his heaven will be like. We didn't pack swimsuits but that didn't stop the kids from getting in the water and making a mess. We didn't stay too long, I was too worried about them getting burnt.

We went back to the hotel after a long day and what did the kids want to do again once we got there? Swim! We spent another 3+ hours at the pool again. I told Josh...I think we could go anywhere in the world and see anything but the thing our kids would like most would be swimming at the hotel.

We went out to Cracker Barrel for dinner. I've never eaten there before and the food was very good and reasonable. The best part was their funky store. The kids all found a treasure to take home from our trip.