Memorial Day Festivities

It's not very often that Jeremy has a long weekend off and we aren't running to AZ or somewhere else really quick, but this weekend we stayed home and decided to take advantage of the beauty around us. We live so close to some many amazing places around here, but seem to take it for granted most of the time. Yesterday we decided to take advantage of some of the neat places by going to Zion...well, almost. We made the decision got ready, packed up and drove out there enjoying the little town as we drove through it. We get up to the booth to pay to get into the park and lets be honest, people who come wearing flip-flops and have a baby in a stroller with a two year old they are probably going to have to carry and planning on only having a little picnic and walking a short trail, is not going to get their moneys worth. So we sheepishly asked if we could turn around and found a grassy, shady area at the Springdale Elementary. The weather was perfect. We had our picnic and ran around on the grass. It was so fun to get away and spend time together as a family.

This was my view on the way there and back thanks to Jase and his uncooperative attitude anytime we get in the car. Apparently just having either Jeremy or me sitting back by him makes all the difference on the world.

I told Kylie to go run around on the grass and I would take her picture. She opted for a photo shoot and provided all her own poses.

Enjoying themselves

Jase was absolutely perfectly content just laying on the grass under the big tree watching the leaves blow. He laid there forever as happy as can be.

On the way home we passed an ostrich farm. I tried to get Kylie to get out and take a picture by the fence, but she would have none of that, so we just sat in the car rolled down the window, Jeremy whistled to get the ostrich to look up while we took the picture. While we were there one of the ostriches went to the bathroom and Kylie couldn't stop talking about it on the way home. Today when she saw this picture she reminded me that, "The ostrich pooped and peed, but he didn't wipe."

Later on in the day we headed up to Cedar to visit my grandma and Jeremy's parents. We stopped by the cemetery on our way to dinner to see if the beautiful flowers at my grandpa's grave had survived the rain storm. They still looked great and it was nice to spend a few minutes out there. By the way, we watched the temperature drop 40 degrees as we drove up from St. George. Needless to say we were not dressed for the weather in Cedar. None the less we had a really good day and hope for more like these.