St George

Last week Jordan had a work conference and the boys and I were lucky enough to go with him.  We went down Tuesday night and came home Friday night.  Our first night was a nightmare the boys refused to go to bed.  Traveling with kids is so hard.  We left at 5:30 hoping they'd fall asleep on the way home but of course they didn't and we had to take them for another ride that night and they didn't go to sleep until around 11.

The boys slept in a little but they were still a little tired the next day.  Jordan went to work all day so I had the boys all day by myself.  We started our day at Snow Canyon.  The boys love the sand dune and then we went on a little hike on the Butterfly trail.  We didn't make it very far but the boys were really sweet and had fun playing together.

Link was starting to get tired so we went for a little drive and the stinker would not go to sleep.  Since no one was going to take a nap we went to the splash pad at Time Square.  The boys loved it. It wasn't actually that warm so the boys got a little cold but they had still had a lot of fun. 

Link randomly found this little girl and sat by her and started talking to her

As part of the conference Jordan got to go golfing so he was gone a little late.  He didn't get back to the hotel until around 7.  It was such a long day but we had a lot of fun.  The boys were tired and refused to take a naps.  We went to the St George temple to kill a little time.  The boys were really cute and had a lot of fun,

The boys were so tired by the time Jordan got back but I had promised them we could go swimming.  It was freezing but Jackson had so much fun.  He found a friend in the pool and they played together.  After swimming we went for a ride to get the boys to sleep and the little stinkers didn't go to sleep until late again. 

The next day was kind of awful.  Link was so tired from not sleeping the past 2 nights that he was just grumpy and didn't have fun.  I tried to take the boys to have fun but it wasn't even worth it.  We went to Pioneer Park first thing in the morning. We rode the carousel at town square and then I finally got Link to sleep so we just hung out in the hotel for most of the day.  

After his nap Link was still tired but so much happier.  When Jordan got back we went hiking at Snow Canyon on the Hidden Pinyon trail.  The boys were both so tired and really grumpy so it was a really long hike.  

 
The poor boys were so tired they went to bed at a decent time.  The next day was the last day of Jordan's conference and only had a half day.  The boys and I packed and then went to a really fun park Cottonwood Cove park.  My boys loved it!  The park was so fun I would love to play there as an adult there were some really fun things there.  Jackson still asks me to go back to that park.

When Jordan was finally done with his conference we took the boys to the temple again.  The boys really love the temple.  

On our way home we decided to go to Zion.  Jacks really liked riding the shuttle into Zion. We hiked the Emerald Pools trail, the boys were really tired but they did awesome.  It was actually a pretty hard hike for such little guys but they did great.  Jacks made it the whole way up and most of the way back without being carried.  It rained on us a little but it wasn't that bad. Link was so tired he fell asleep half way down the trail with me carrying him.  We had a lot of fun on this trip but it was also so much work.  Taking kids anywhere for more than one night is so hard.  Their sleep schedules were so off they were kind of miserable.  I think I'm done with vacations for a little while after this.