St George

A few weekends ago, we went to St George with a bunch of our friends. Last year, we had 6 families including us. This year, we invite 3 more than that! So we ended up with us, the Christensens, the Freis, the Tanners, the Winfields, the Smiths, the Perkins, the Harrisons, and the Jacobs. Daniel and I felt a little crazy for inviting so many people. There were, like 50 of us total! 

Sarah came to our house and watched Tucker for us while we were gone. 

We left Thursday afternoon after the kids were home from school, which meant we didn't get to St George until pretty late. We just packed a bunch of food for the drive and ate in the car, and put our kids to bed right when we got there. Most of our company got in sometime on Thursday, but there were a few families who came on Friday. 

Every family had things they wanted to do, so Daniel created a spreadsheet to coordinate activities, and people could do the activities they wanted to join in on. 

Daniel went biking with the guys and then they took the kids later. I took Brooke to the temple to do baptisms with a bunch of dads and kids and Sarah. We took the kids to the pool and hot tub a couple of times. We had game nights -- kids game night and adult game night. We had a grown up girls night. We met up with the Rubens at a park near their new house. We had some dinners together that were absolutely chaotic with all of us -- just a potluck where everyone brought whatever they were planning to eat and we all picked and chose what we wanted. Daniel and I took the kids to the temple visitors center on Sunday to do some of the activities they had there. We went to Sacrament Meeting. The big kids did night games outside most nights and climbed the hill behind our houses to the playground. The kids loved hanging out with their friends. Daniel and the guys took the big kids to do shooting. We stopped to do about a mile hike on our way home with a bunch of our friends. 

We had too much fun, too much food and too little sleep. The kids were a little emotional at times about things. And Jack was not feeling well for a good portion of the time we were there. He stayed in his room in bed to relax a lot. And I just let him, so that he would be removed from everyone on the chance that he really was sick. We didn't want to spread it to friends. 

It was such a great weekend. I was tired a lot, and didn't get to do all the things I wanted. But it was great to bond with our friends and spend a lot of time with them. We did dinner and breakfast with the families in our house, which went pretty well. And we ate really well. 😊 I didn't take many pictures. But we were busy having fun.