St. George - 11/11-11/14

Kenneth had a 4 day weekend recently, so we headed up to St. George, UT to meet up with his sister Stephanie to do some rockclimbing.  We had a great time!

We arrived Friday, and headed to a climbing area called Chuckwalla Wall.  While there we were climbing next to a dating couple.  The guy had brought along his little dog as well.  Danny of course was following the dog around and petting it, and the dog seemed to be very nice.  This all changed when a tiny dog walked by on the path with a family of 3.  The small dog charged and was biting the tiny dog around the neck.  It was crazy!  I was so happy the dog hadn't bitten Danny!!  It was intense.

Stephanie

Ok, I need to take this moment to let you all know how incredibly cute Danny is!!  Obviously Emily is too, but I'm not featuring pictures of her right here.  Anyway, Danny was totally showing off for his Aunt Steph.

We bought a harness for Danny about a month ago, but he was reluctant to put it on until now.  This was Danny first official rock climb!!  He did such a great job!  He was so high!

Here Steph is helping him repel down - he was a little more nervous on this part!

On Saturday we headed into Snow Canyon.  I love it there!  So beautiful.

We started off with a short hike into a small slot canyon.

Emily is always fascinated with Danny

After our short hike we headed to the sand dunes.  Danny had a lot of fun crawling around, and also had fun watching Kenneth do some back flips.

Love these girls!

Finally we arrived at our climbing destination within Snow Canyon.  We did a really fun climb that was about 200 ft tall.  We had quite the crown watching us!  It was a lot of fun.

Danny pointing out where Danny was

Sunday came around and Steph left shortly after church.  Kenneth and I decided to take Danny to the Little Narrows so he could hike up the "little narrows" and to just walk around the fun rock formations.

The "Little Narrows"

Danny (fuzzy) heading through

Danny is obsessed with bugs!  He picked up this stink bug while walking through the Little Narrows and insisted on holding it (and hugging it repeatedly).  The day before he did the same thing but with a little green caterpillar.  ;)

Can't believe how big Emily is getting - 7 months now

Exploring the little caves - and apparently taking a nap

On Monday we headed back to the Little Narrows so that I could walk through them - since I had Emily strapped to me the day before.  I was very happy that I could still make it through!  The last time I tried, I was about 5 months pregnant...and that didn't go so well!

We did a final climb or two before heading out.

And there you have it!  We love St. George and were so happy to be able to spend a little time with Stephanie and have the kids get to know her better.  Good times.