Memorial Day Weekend in St. George

This year for Memorial Day we decided to head to St. George with our friends the Lewis family. We left Friday afternoon and came home on Monday. It was a really fun, relaxing mini-family vacation. Jim found us a beautiful condo at Las Palmas to rent. It was really big so we weren't tripping over each other even with seven kids and four adults. It had a great pool for the kids so we spent quite a bit of time there. Jim, Chris and Andrew went golfing Saturday morning so Stacie and I took the other kids down to the pool.



I didn't know what the pool was going to be like so I bought Ally a life jacket to wear, just in case it was all deep. Thankfully, this pool had a little one foot area for the younger kids. Ally had her life jacket on and stepped off the steps into the three foot area. She could float just fine but she did not like the fact that she couldn't touch the bottom. She started screaming! From then on, she didn't get near the steps. After the guys got back from golfing we all went down to the pool. Jim decided to get Ally into the deeper water. He held onto her the entire time but she just death gripped his neck and screamed for me.





(Here Jim is trying to calm her down and talk her into staying in the deep end with him - didn't work)

From then on, she played in the one foot area. We tried to go to Zion on Sunday but once we got there it was way too crowded. We took a few pictures on the side of the road and then headed back to St. George and the pool. It was a really enjoyable family and friend weekend. We decided that we are going to make it an annual trip.