Christmas in St. George
Our Family in the Red Rock (of St. George, Utah) 2009
This year we were lucky enough to have 2 Christmases. As soon as Olivia's school was over we began the 11 hour drive down and over to St. George to visit Grandma Ann and Great Grandpa Jack. The kids are really great in the car on these long trips. They don't even watch that many videos. I am glad we trained them from when they were young to endure these trips. This makes these kinds of long trips much more tolerable with the kids behaving so nicely.
Great Grandpa Jack is living with Ann for a while as he recovers from his surgery and a MINOR stroke. Olivia had to show him all her artwork that she brought on the trip.
The first thing the kids wanted to do when we arrived in St. George was to go to "the purple tent with the slides", AKA the indoor swimming pool. We were able to do this 2 of the days.
Ann lives in a wonderful neighborhood. They always have block parties. This block party was a lot of fun. Neighbors brought out their fire rings and we roasted marshmallows and made s'mores. Sam just loved the fire. I had a least 6 marshmallows!
The other activity that was great was this little boat that someone was pulling behind their truck. They were blasting Christmas music from their speakers. This was their way of caroling. Definitely a southern Utah Christmas.
Hi Dad and his big girls!
Wednesday night we went to a Nativity play at the Tuacahn theater. Before the Luke 2 reading we went on this train ride and after the reading we had HOT Cocoa and listened to some ladies with wonderful voices sing Christmas songs. The kids liked all 3 parts of this evening. Daniel and I are so blessed with such great kids. I loved watching Luke 2 with the kids, but it was also very rewarding to watch the kids drink their cocoa and listen to the singers.
This was our 'Christmas morning' at Grandma Ann's house. A tradition I love is making cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning. yum yum
Lula had fun exploring everyone's presents.
Just before this picture was taken, Olivia realized we were leaving. She always gets very sad when it is time to leave her grandmas' houses. She has such a tender heart.
This year we were lucky enough to have 2 Christmases. As soon as Olivia's school was over we began the 11 hour drive down and over to St. George to visit Grandma Ann and Great Grandpa Jack. The kids are really great in the car on these long trips. They don't even watch that many videos. I am glad we trained them from when they were young to endure these trips. This makes these kinds of long trips much more tolerable with the kids behaving so nicely.
Great Grandpa Jack is living with Ann for a while as he recovers from his surgery and a MINOR stroke. Olivia had to show him all her artwork that she brought on the trip.
The first thing the kids wanted to do when we arrived in St. George was to go to "the purple tent with the slides", AKA the indoor swimming pool. We were able to do this 2 of the days.
Ann lives in a wonderful neighborhood. They always have block parties. This block party was a lot of fun. Neighbors brought out their fire rings and we roasted marshmallows and made s'mores. Sam just loved the fire. I had a least 6 marshmallows!
The other activity that was great was this little boat that someone was pulling behind their truck. They were blasting Christmas music from their speakers. This was their way of caroling. Definitely a southern Utah Christmas.
Hi Dad and his big girls!
Wednesday night we went to a Nativity play at the Tuacahn theater. Before the Luke 2 reading we went on this train ride and after the reading we had HOT Cocoa and listened to some ladies with wonderful voices sing Christmas songs. The kids liked all 3 parts of this evening. Daniel and I are so blessed with such great kids. I loved watching Luke 2 with the kids, but it was also very rewarding to watch the kids drink their cocoa and listen to the singers.
This was our 'Christmas morning' at Grandma Ann's house. A tradition I love is making cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning. yum yum
Lula had fun exploring everyone's presents.
Just before this picture was taken, Olivia realized we were leaving. She always gets very sad when it is time to leave her grandmas' houses. She has such a tender heart.
