Home From Vacation

We spent the weekend in St. George, UT. Our *awesome* friends, Ian and Jodi Peterson, invited us to stay with them at their parent's vacation house. The house was beautiful. It was very comfortable and we had lots of room. Best of all we were in great company with Ian, Jodi and their son.

Saturday night Jodi and I left the kids with the boys and we went to see Les Miserables at the Tuacahn Theater. It was awesome! I really loved it. I've never seen Les Mis before and truly loved the story. Jodi has seen Les Mis in London and NYC but still thought this performance was wonderful. The Tuacahn theater is an outdoor theater at the base of a beautiful red rock cliff. There were fireworks and other things you could never have at a theater in NYC. I loved it. St. George is super hot in the summer but it was manageable in the dark and certainly didn't stop the theater from selling all 1200 seats. I can't wait to go back. Here is a link to the theater. I wish they had better pictures.

The picture above on the right is of the "Short and Scary Hike" we went on. It was totally fun. If you look EXTREMELY close you can see the sunlight peaking through the crack in the wall. The super short hike goes through that crack. I could have barley squeezed through it (I think) but I hated the feeling of not being able to turn my head as I squeezed through. Luke ended up being the only one who braved this hike this time. I was so happy he did it. Keith ran to the top to get him when he came out and I watched from below.

We swam both Friday and Saturday. My kids were AMAZING! Amazing to me at least. I was so proud of them. Luke was doing all the things he was scared to do in swimming lessons. He was floating on his back and jumping in the deep end. He was wearing floaties but was still doing much more than in swimming lessons. He went clear under the water a bunch of times which was impressive because he's been so scared to do this. I think the goggles I bought them really helped.