Nik and Nef Wedding Reception in Payson Canyon

Cute cousins! 

Brandy rode up with Nik and Nef on the way back from their honeymoon. 

Then we took her home late Saturday night after the reception. 

Dan and I got up there at about 4:00 pm so I helped set up the tables and centerrpieces. We also picked up the beautiful flowers with Nefi's mom and helped place them. 

It was pretty warm and I didn't eat or drink anything and I actually got heat stroke. I was faint and sick to my stomach. It was pretty crazy. Never had that before. 

Diana gave me a bottled water and saved me. 

It was great to be with the Troyer and Wride families. We drove up Saturday morning and Dan did two post office boxes. We left after the reception and we got home at about 1:00 am. 

Rosenbruch Museum

We took the kids to a wildlife museum since it was so hot outside. They loved the binoculars and climbing around in the kids room.

Pine Valley

We had a delicious Sunday dutch oven dinner in Pine Valley. We also went on a walk to the reservoir. The kids also enjoyed the s'mores!

Zion

We ate lunch at Oscar's and then played in the river. We had a fun water fight with our buckets. The kids loved it. It was a beautiful day!

 

Lindsey's Visit

Lindsey, Dillon, and Lucy came to visit St. George while Carlton had a really busy week. We're talking like 100 hour work week in his residency! We had a lot of fun while they were here!

I have separate posts for Sailing, Zion, Pine Valley, and the Rosenbach Museum.

Alexa jumping in the pool at the Summit.

Looking for the $10,000 Summit Rock.

Princesses at the Children's museum.

 Princesses at home.

Andrew's Birthday dinner at Red Robin.

Sailing

While Lindsey was in town we went sailing on my dad and brother's sail boats. Bennett especially enjoys sailing and all the kids love digging in the sand. Caden just likes people watching.

Phoenix Trip

Steve's office sent him to an Invisalign class in Phoenix so we made of trip of it. It's a bonus that both my sister and Steve's brother's families live there.

On Thursday at 8am we picked up my mom and headed to Phoenix. It was great to have her help with the kids on the way down. They did great for a 7 hour drive. We got to Lindsey's house around 3. The kids played and Lindsey made us dinner. We left my mom and Alexa to stay at Lindsey's house and the rest of us headed to our hotel. It was super nice of Lindsey and my mom to take care of Alexa pretty much the whole weekend. We stayed at the Phoenix Marriott Tempe at the Buttes, which is where his conference was held. Caden slept great but Bennett didn't because he had a cold.

On Friday Steve had his conference from 8 to noon. The rest of us got to spend time at our pool. It was a really fun one. Lindsey, Dillon, Lucy, my mom, Cari Sue and Josh came. It really warmed up by noon. We then had Steve with us and we headed to grab lunch and then we went to Tempe Beach Park. The kids ran around and we went on a walk by the water. We then headed back to the pool and Sean was able to join us that time. At about 5 just our family headed to Sean and Cari Sue's new house and ate a delicious dinner with them. We headed back to the hotel around 8 and everyone slept better that night.

Saturday morning was cloudy and colder so we didn't swim right away. We headed to Riverview Park in Mesa. We had everyone there, including my dad, and Andrew who drove in to town Friday night, Lindsey's family, and Sean's family. For lunch we went to IKEA and shopped around a bit. Next we went on a hike at Hole in the Rock at Papago Park. Sean's family then had to go home and the rest of us went swimming again as it was warmer. We had a pizza party and then called it a night.

Sunday morning we headed to Lindsey's house and joined them for church at 9. The kids were not very reverent. :) Afterward, we visited the new Phoenix temple for a minute and then drove back to St. George. Caden didn't do as well on the drive home and the trip felt a lot longer... we were glad we had such a fun trip though.