Visiting Southern Utah.

Casey's mom and her husband bought a 2nd home down in Washington (just outside of St. George). We decided to take a break from everything and go down to visit during the 3-day weekend. We had a great time and are so grateful to them and their generosity.

Shelby and Shyann putting on the "green" at Casey's mom's home.

On Saturday, we went to a Dinosaur Discovery Museum. This place has natural casts with the original footprints of dinosaurs. It also has only 1 of 5 in the world of findings of a dinosaur "squatting" track. After exploring and having fun there, we decided to go climb the "red rocks" in St. George. The kids could have stayed all day long.

At the "red rocks" area in St. George

Sunday was a very enjoyable day. The meetings were all wonderful and there was a great spirit in the lessons. After lunch, we decided to go on a couple of tours. We went to Brigham Young's Winter Quarters home, the Tabernacle, and the Temple Visitor's Center. We watched a wonderful video called "The Stonecutter". It shared the message that we should all be fulfilling our callings to our very best without excuses. It was very touching.

In front of the St. George Temple

Yesterday, we went over to the Tuacan theater to see what it looked like. Then we drove into Snow Canyon and went for a hike. That's a really fun place with a lot of hiking that we can look forward to doing next time we go down. There is a lot of lava rock. We were only able to do one quick hike before we needed to get ready to leave.

We had such an enjoyable time and look forward to going down again. It's time to get back to reality -- work, school, dance, scouts, piano, church callings, and all the fun things that go along with being home.