st. george cravens!

a couple of weeks ago we went down to see katrina and her family in St. George!  They are liking it down there and we can see why-- it was a really fun trip!  Here are some of the fun things we did, but really the best part was seeing Katrina and Phillip and Derek (who came with us!) and especially playing with Lydia!

We went to a little splash park, and swam in Katrina's neighborhood pool twice.

 As soon as we discovered you could make mud by rubbing the wet red rocks, Derek of course war-painted himself!  That kid is the king of random fun!

 I just love this picture Eric took of himself and Owen on our hike- more pics below

I love this 5-generation picture-minus my mom!  I really think my nose and cheeks look just like Grandmoms!  I love family resemblances, so cool.  Even though I look more like my dad than my mom in general, I can still have my Grandmom's cheeks!

 Whitney LOVES Lydia.  She was so excited to see her and play with her and they had fun.

 Grandmom got to hold Owen sleeping- sweet.

 We went to an extremely AWESOME parade in Santa Clara. Before it started Whit took pictures with this Genie...

 and was shy but agreed to take a pic with storm troopers with Uncle Derek, her buddy.

 This parade was seriously awesome.  Every parade we've been to in Utah County has been nuts, beyond crowded.  At this one, we could only see like 10 other people down the street!  People on the floats were seriously dumping candy on us, and the girls got as much as they do on halloween!  It helped that they had on their BYU hats and Lydia was so amazingly cute!

 Owen also enjoyed it.  I LOVE this picture, look at my twins!

 The girls in the river at the splash park

 cute cousins!

 Lydia loves Owen!

 Our last activity was a hike I'd done before (and luckily Phillip knew how to get there!)  It was super awesome, even though we learned you can't get through that skinny crack holding a baby!  Katelyn loved it and did it 3 times,  but Whitney got too scared and Uncle Derek had to rescue her.  Then I got too scared and backed out, then a few minutes later decided I didn't want to be the only one to wuss out- I think I must be smaller than Derek, come on!  If he could squeeze through then so could I.  So I pushed on through and did it. also Katrina and I had a little adventure hiking up to the top of the crack with Whitney and our babies.

 kate waving behind Phillip

 in a little hollow

Katrina and Phillip are great hosts and we will be back again sometime!  It was a fun quick trip.