Spring Break

For spring break this year we hit the road! We traveled south to get to a little sunshine and we found it! On our way down we stopped in St. George to visit Grandma and Grandpa Hatch. They are being snowbirds down there. The kids were so happy to see them and get out and run. It was their first taste of some warm weather and they were so dirty from playing outside. Grandpa has been fixing this bike down there and Cam and him finished it while we were there and Cam took the kids for a ride. Cohen didn't want to get off very bad.
We were excited to see Erik and Savannah and little miss Avery. We hadn't seen them since Avery and Cohen were little tiny babies so it was really fun. We just went to lunch and took the kids to a really cute park just off the strip in Vegas. The kids had a lot of fun. Caeli was our photographer in the picture above... she's getting pretty good! :)
Cohen and Avery just checking each other out. Cohen needs to learn to be a little less rough. He's used to wrestling with Caeli.
We played tourist a little while we were down there. We took the kids to M&M world, which wasn't near as cool as I remember it. Caeli did pick a little bag of pink M&M's though. It was her highlight there for sure. While we were downtown we also saw the water show at the Bellagio and the lion and the MGM. We also went to Rain Forest Cafe inside the MGM. It was a fun little place. The kids liked all of the animals and there was a really good magician that we were all pretty impressed with.

Some other highlights included a hike to the hot pots down by Lake Mead. That was Caeli's favorite part for sure, she keeps talking about those warm swimming pools. I understand she hiked the whole 3 miles in without any trouble and did pretty well on the way out as well. Cohen and I stayed at Teri and Tyson's house and... well mostly just napped. But played outside a little as well. Tyson lost his wedding ring while he was down there and so he went back the next day to look for it and he FOUND IT!!! I couldn't believe it. I was so happy for him. After running back in there for the second day though he couldn't walk very well. On Friday Tim and Mandy and Steven and Jazmin came down and we took a little shopping trip to Primm. That night we put the kids to bed and they all went bowling. I took it easy and stayed home with the kiddos again. We did hit our favorite... Cheesecake Factory. We rarely go to Vegas without going there. Mostly it was just really fun to go and see and spend time with family. I wish I would have got a few more pictures. It was fun to enjoy some warm weather and just relax a little.