Back in B-town

We had such a WONDERFUL vacation it is hard to believe it is already OVER! I was looking forward to it for such a long time....O well....we still have Lake Powell in just a couple of months. (This time...WITH the husband!)
So here is the very brief overview of our trip:
We headed down to Salt Lake and spent some time with the cousins. We visited Hogle Zoo, the Children's museum and the Dinosaur exhibit at Thanksgiving Point. It is always a little refreshing going to Utah. No one looks at me like I am crazy with 3 kids in tow. Ashley and I have 6 kids between the 2 of us and no one even looks twice at us. (Unless we are spilling drinks EVERYWHERE....never mind) We had so much fun spending time with everyone!

After we played for a couple of days I left the boys with Grandma and Ashley (A big THANK YOU goes out to the both of them) and was able to hop in the car for our long awaited "Girls Trip" to St. George. My sister and I have been best friends with Ash and Lindsay since birth. Our moms our best friends AND our Grandmas are even best friends!We started off the trip finding out that not ONE pregnant lady but TWO pregnant ladies would be along for the ride. Ashley is just a few weeks behind my sister so it was such fun and exciting news! Both of them are first time moms so we had many conversations about babies, maternity clothes, birth stories....etc. It is so funny to think that OUR moms were pregnant at the same time talking about alot of the same things were! We listened to all of these songs that Ash and Linds compiled from years gone by. We laughed SO hard listening to Huey Lewis and the News, Girls just wanna have fun, and the Backstreet Boys. Hilarious.

We ate out..its so NICE not to have to cook!

Did lots of shopping ...We found the UGLIEST shoes in the WORLD! Whoever would pay $35 bucks for them is absolutely crazy! They look like witch shoes and the picture actually makes them look better then they were.

Then we went to a Deana Carter concert. If you knew me in the high school days you know how much I LOVED Deana Carter. The concert was at Tuacahn in the outdoor theatre and it was SO much fun! We sang and danced through the whole concert. She was so funny and had such an amazing voice...especially in person. The concert was over way too fast!

The last day we went over to Zion's and did some hiking. It was an absolutely perfect 75 degrees out. We hiked up to the Emerald pools and walked over to the beginning of the narrows. It is no wonder that so many tourists come from all over the world to see such an amazing place. We had a great time.

I am so blessed to have so many awesome women in my life. I needed this trip to charge my batteries! Thanks for the fun trip girls! Back to the real world again! :)