St George

Okay, so I haven't posted for like five months. Tad behind... I'll admit it. But frankly, since this blog pretty much covers for scrapbooking, journaling, and photo album all in one, I am still going to post all the random pictures from last summer. Yes, last summer. Sorry, I'll be caught up in a few days, so feel free to just skip over the posts til then, they're all outdated anyway. ;-) This first post is actually one I wrote last summer, but didn't get all the pictures attached so it never got posted. This is how I wrote it out then, so I added the rest of the pictures and I'm just going to leave it. One thing I can say about looking back on these pictures is I kinda already miss summer! Oh for the nice and warm sun rays... the snow just isn't doing it for me right now.

So Jonathan and I spent three nights during June in St. George, and this was the first time we've gone on vacation without bringing Benjamin! My mom came over and stayed with him the whole time, isn't she amazing? We were so lucky she could help us! Fortunately she did have some babysitting help from Mary and Will, and also McKell. (Thanks you guys!!!) When we went to pick up Benjamin from McKell's house, he was playing with a ball, and paused long enough to hold it up for us to see and say "ball!" before he turned back around and continued to throw the ball on the ground and chase after it. Glad to know we were missed. ;-) (I was actually really glad he did so well!)

The first morning we were in St. George, we went to a 4 hour rock climbing course with an instructor, who both refreshed some basic climbing skills we used to have and taught us more about top roping. It was a ton of fun! Neither one of us had climbed in years. Now I'm motivated to get a bit more gear so we can climb again!

Made it to the top! Wahoo!

Don't worry, Jonathan made it too. ;-)

We did some hikes while we were down there, this is in Snow Canyon. Behind us is an old volcano that we hiked, which turned out to be not nearly as exciting and interesting as it sounds. That may be due to some negative experiences losing the trail and haphazardly hacking our way up and down the hill... yeah.

Here's the view from the top:

We hiked around in Zion National Park for a day also:

Lots of pretty views. Mediocre photography, but nice views. ;-)

Nice, cool, little oasis we hiked to:

So this was one of my favorite parts of the trip by FAR. We went and saw Tarzan at Tuacahn Ampitheater! It's based off of Disney's Tarzan, which I really like, so I liked this one too. Their "young Tarzan" was AMAZING! He was EXACTLY like I pictured him, and very talented! I found this promotional clip online, and I think he's in it for a few seconds. It was really fun though, and since we went in June the weather wasn't unbearably hot, although it was really windy the night we went.