St. George with the Estoque's!

Who cares if you arrive at 2:00 in the am?  If we have a pool, we're going in!  We rented a house with the Estoque side down in good 'ol St. George.  4 bedrooms, and a pool.  Wish I had taken pics of the house.  It was beautiful! 

We went down a day earlier than everyone else,  so we could hit the St. George Temple, and perform baptisms for the dead.  With the twin's turning 12 a week earlier, we all could go!  Even sweet little Katelyn came along!

It's one of my favorite temples to visit with all it's history!  Soooo fun......

 and so awesome to do it with our family complete!

The next night when everybody arrived. (Minus Steve because of work, and Lauren because of EFY)  we went to Tuacahn, to see ALADDIN!  Loved it and have loved EVERY play we have ever seen there.  They had real camels, Aladdin and Jasmine flew over the audience.  

It was beautifully done!

And what is a visit to St. George without a visit to our most favorite park?  

It never seems to disappoint.

After cooking dinner one night and the kids taking over the table, we adults headed out on the patio.  Pretty soon, kid after kid started following us out.  Liking our peace and quiet, we asked them kindly to venture back inside.  Locking us out of the house, we told them they were "ok" as long as they cleaned up the kitchen.....huh, guess we showed them.  Boy, were we ever wrong.  They did work hard, and had that kitchen cleaned up, but not soon after were greeting us from the upstairs master room balcony with WATER BALLOONS!!  Are you kidding me!  They just kept coming, and coming....

Deciding we had to take action, Cheryl had said we should try the balcony's up front, and so Darren with his Spiderman like abilities, scaled the wall along with Curtis's help and lo and behold by luck,  it was open!  2 hrs into it but we were finally in and kid's were being thrown in the pool! 

All except this one.

Such a brave little girl.

The mastermind, the supplier, the culprit.....she eluded us the longest.  But in the end the parents win, we always win.   

All except the wet one you see on the left in the above picture.  For some reason after the kids ran out of the 500 water balloons they already had.....Tina, HER MOTHER, took the kids to the store and bought them 2000 more.  Oh, Tina....why would you turn?

I'm sure this will be a story to tell, years on down the road!

On our final morning there Curtis, Cheryl, Darren and Dad hiked up the mountainside to say their final goodbye.  Until next time....because I am sure we will be doing this again!