Utah Trip....day 1

Since we were already going to be in St. George, we took advantage and left early Friday morning so we could go up into Pine Valley to hike and have a picnic lunch. We met my parents up there and had some yummy chicken before we started hiking. We decided to take a different route to the lake and it ended up being the very long way there!!!! My dad turned back to get the truck while we kept hiking and we got to see a whole family of deer. If you look closely to the bottom pic above, there is a deer in the middle looking right at us!! We saw the baby first and then saw the whole family just hanging out. They didn't care that we were even watching them until we got a little too close (and Makenna got a little too loud;) and they hopped away like rabbits. It was so neat to have Makenna see that. When Papa picked us up, she kept saying that she wanted to go back and see HER deer!!

We also stopped off at my sister in law Julie's, to see the house that they are building, to visit for a few and so I could get my hair cut (thanks, Julie;) We left there, got some dinner and met all of Travis' family at this nice, new park. Makenna was still in her pants from hiking but we let her run through the water things they had and she had a blast. She was a little timid at first but there was no stopping her once she started. It was cute to watch. She also ran wild on all the playground equipment. She is definitely our little monkey. She loves the monkey bars and will just hang on them forever!!

Travis' parents rented a condo for the weekend (which was super nice...it was as big as our first house) and so we got settled in and then took Makenna to one of the many pools that they had. It was her first real time in a swimming pool and she loved it. She didn't want to get out but she was freezing since it was nighttime. I finally convinced her to get out by telling her we would come back the next day. It was a busy day but it was fun!!