Vacation

So this year for vacation we kinda did a "staycation". We went to St George for a couple of days. I know I know, who in the heck goes to St. George in the middle of July! We did!! But we had fun!
We went for a drive through a small part of Bryce Canyon. We had never been through there. We headed over to the Grand Escalante Stair Case. It is always cool to see the awesome rock formations. And an interesting piece of tid-bit - I finally made it through Tropic, UT. My Uncle is from there and I have always heard about Tropic, but I have never been through there. Now I know where Uncle Glade grew up, and I dont know why my Aunt Karolyn would not want to move there, it is beautiful!
Here is Leo and Aynsley in the Monument on one of the little trails that we hiked on.

Leo and Ryan too!
Here is an awesome double arch that we drove to - I love how all the formations are just naturally formed over thousands and thousands of years. Make you really stop and think that we are really only here for a blink of time!

Another cool rock formation

I took this picture with my camera on the flower setting - I love how it turned out!
One night we went over to Tuchan theater and saw FOOTLOOSE!! It was awesome. Aynsley has never been to a play besides school plays and she was just amazed by the production. When Wren does his solo dance -(in the movie the part where he is doing his dance thru the vacant rail building to Never) at the end of the solo Aynsley screams - whooooo! it was too cute, she was way into it! Then also at the end of the production she screamed again and says to me -"Mom that was awesome!" So now I guess I am going to have to take her back to Tarzan next year! Except we will go in the Spring!
Then the next day we went over to Vegas, the kids were bugging us to go to M&M world and Coke world. Then Leo and Ryan did the Nascar experience - rode the roller coaster and the race simulator.
We had fun and it was soooo nice to have a week off!!