St George Summer Fun

I always look forward to this time of year for many reasons, one of them is that my mom and I take a week in the summer to go to St George and just play with the kids and hang out! For some reason it takes me getting out of my element to really be able to "play" with my kids for an extended period of time. When I am home I have a hard time letting go of mom duties, wife responsibilites, and household stuff and even on occasion I am just wanting to be selfish and be with me and my things. So when I play here with my kids it isn't quite the same as devoting a whole week to them. We had a jam packed week down there, the weather was beautiful, we had some over cast days, which made great days for park playing, hiking and sand dunes in Snow Canyon. and some really hot days for splash pads and backyard pools and squirt guns. Perfect! We hit 3 different splash pads, 2 parks, 2 hikes, sand playing, movie watching, shopping, playing in the backyard, getting lots of treats (Toblers cookies, shakes, icees etc...) Played tennis, soccer, and golf with Mason. We watched the bats at night, Ella played beauty shop with grandma's hair, Claire loved being outside, specially on the hikes and playing in the lazy river and splash pad water! She is my adventurer. Ella on the other hand was a "nervous ellie" while hiking. Scared of the echos, of Mason going too far ahead of us, of tall Mountains. That girl just needs to keep picking flowers and playing in the sand (her favs). I also loved just being able to chill with my mom, she is so easy going and my kids just adore her. I love being able to talk openly with her with no judgement or criticism, she always gives loving honest opinions and is on my side! Even at 32 I still need my mom more than ever! I have great kids and totally enjoyed them this week. They are so fun, and funny, loving, kind, and easy to be with (exhausting, but easy). What a treat it is to be a "fun" mom and enjoy them because now its back to laundry and kitchen cleaning... YUCK! Hopefully we made some good memories and I will do better at letting myself go more often at home! LOVE THOSE KIDS!!! The best part was all the hugs and kisses I got from them and them wanting to sit on my lap, and watching them play(and sometimes argue) together. They are hilarious to watch!
QUOTES: In the car at some point Ella got mad at me and said, "Mom...I love you but don't like you right now. Grandmas my best (friend) now, not you!" Where did she get that? I know I havn't said that before... crazy girl! Claire learned how to wave bye bye and do soooo big! Oh she is so cute! Her little personality is the greatest! So fun! Mason can talk a lot of trash but can not take it We played cards(idiot) every night and I only won once out of sooo many games so of course I let him have it a little and he quickly let me know of what a poor sport I am and not a good example!