St. George

For Thanksgiving we drove down to St. George to meet up with Landon's extended family.  Thanksgiving happened to coincide with his Grandma's 80th birthday so everyone gathered to celebrate.  Admittedly, Landon and I had low expectations.  And, lucky for us, it turned out to be an absolute blast.  The first two days we hung at a rented farm. We had Thanksgiving dinner and birthday celebrations in the barn and played outside the rest of the time.  The last day we went to the temple then headed to Snow Canyon and hiked around.  It was a perfect weekend.

Landon sported a beard in honor of "Movember" or "No-Shave November".  All in the name of Prostate Cancer Awareness.  Consider yourself more aware. 

 Norah cruising on the giant jumping pillow. 

 The boys jumping at night

One reason that this trip was so great was that we had plenty of time with the Landon's cousins/aunts/uncles, plenty of time with just his siblings and parents, and some good time with just our little family.

We had an hour or two in the evenings to hang out with the kids in the hotel room while we put them to bed.

I love these pictures of Norah and Landon

 And j'adore this picture of her cute little belly.

 Annie and Aiden watched TV.

 We played some good games.

 And read some bedtime stories.

After the kids were asleep we headed down the hall to hang out with Landon's siblings.  The evenings were our favorites.

Landon's brother Evan is majoring in geology and took us on a couple mini field trips.
The first was out to see some dinosaur tracks.

 Turns out Norah's feet are smaller than a dinosaur's. 

 Landon was in love with the landscape.  I can't blame him.

The second field trip was to a gypsum pit.  Gyspum, for all you non-geologists, is this cool white/clear rock. 

 Norah stayed in this hole for a long time.  Don't worry, if she would have fallen, she would just have landed on rocks.

 Here are some more pictures of the farm.

The cowboy.

 Grandma, her sister Ada, and other guests at her birthday party.

 The two Ann's.

And lastly, Snow Canyon.

Roger pulled a Lion King with Norah at the top of a sandstone formation.  His new heart is clearly working great.

 Norah insisted on hiking by herself (with a little help from me on the hard parts)

 While we played on the rocks, Aiden dug in the dirt by himself. 

Landon's family.

I clearly missed some crucial pictures. woops.  But I assure you that we did have Thanksgiving dinner together, and, most importantly, had a wonderful lunch Saturday at the Golden Corral.