St. George Trip

We had the chance to go down and visit St. George this weekend. Derek has been doing a job in Cedar City so Linnea, Gracie and I decided to go down there this weekend and visit Grandma Childs and go on a mini vacation. It was great, not too hot, but still warmer than up north. We went hiking, Glenda and I went to What Women Want, we played games checked out the horses, went to dinner...and took a good break. Gracie loved hiking with us in Pioneer Park. She would go nuts when she saw a lizard...she would dart and jump into the bushes after it or chase it into it's hole even though she would crash into the rocks while doing it. We were able to see some old friends from the ward that we used to live in that was great, and also Derek's best friend and his wife were able to come down and play games with us. It was great to see everyone again. I love vacations it is so nice to just relax with your family. I am so excited for our disneyland vacation in two weeks it will be a blast!!!

Linnea was our little mountain goat the whole time she wanted to climb up the rocks all on her own.

Playing ring-around-the-rosies...a new favorite game

Dino-museum

This was apparently a prehistoric shark...they had a comparison to the Great White and it was a lot bigger

Derek and Linnea playing in the water and sand!

We had our niece and nephews spend the night with us last weekend so we decided to haul the kids to thanksgiving point to go to the museum of ancient life! It really is an awesome museum, very educational. I wanted to spend my time reading all the plaques and learning about space rocks and dino's but no...not with kids :). They had an area where they could play in sand with water so they could understand how water carves out canyons and how that brings up fossils and dinos. At the very end of the museum they were able to dig up dinosaur bones with the brushes and everything, not the cheapest outing but it was worth it I think.

New Additions

Well as many of you know I grew up with pets and finally after our disaster choice of buying a St. Bernard Derek agreed to fill our house with more animals :) We got Mo, the cockatiel awhile ago my mom's friend wanted to get rid of him totally free cage and all so we thought that would be easy to handle, then another member of my parents ward couldn't handle their Boston Terrier anymore. They have two and they just fought and fought. They just gave her to us for free her name is Gracie and she is 3 years old and housebroken...much easier to manage than a puppy.. So welcome summer and welcome new pets :)

Shopping Trip

Ok you guys might think this is lame of me for posting my grocery trip, but I had to... I felt that it was a really good trip. This is all from Smith's, I was going to get some things at other stores, but I think Linnea was done shopping so maybe tomorrow. Anyways here is what I bought...

(2) pampers diaper packs
(4) Wheaties cereal
(4) Kellogs Cereal
(2) Tide laundry detergent
(4) Nabisco 100 calorie snack boxes
Apples
Bananas
(2) bags of baby carrots

Grand Total: $27.00!!

Maybe some people do better than me, but for me that's good especially with the diapers and everything. If I would've gone to Target I would also have two Schick Hydro Razors, but not a different price, thats right I'm getting them for free. Coupons are a lot of work and planning but they are sure helping us out right now!