Stephenson Girls Trip '09

Year 4 of the annual girls trip and once again it was such a blast. We went back to St. George this year after going to Park City the 2 previous years. It was good because my Aunt Jean and cousin Jamie could make a quick trip up from Vegas to be with us. So fun!

Eating lunch before going shopping

L to R Heather, Jacque, Cathy, Amy, Shauna, Bethany, Tamera

Shannon, Melanie, Jamie, and Sarah

This was after shopping and we were starving! They just opened up Brick Oven in St. George so we had to go. We just parked it curbside while we waited. We had 4 pregnant girls this trip (including me) and poor Sarah-in purple was due in 3 weeks. She shopped all day with us and never complained. She is a die hard shopper!

Here is all the shopping bags all gathered together before we did show and tell.

Shauna, Mom, Aunt Sharon, Aunt Mary

The Tenney Girls

me, Amy, Shannon, Melanie

Cathy, Jacque, Aunt Chris, Aunt Jean, Tamera

Tamera (my cousin's wife) was nice enough to ask her mom who lives in St. George if we could all stay at her house. There were 20 of us! She agreed and we couldn't believe the amazing home we were about to stay in! We all had the most comfortable beds ever-nobody slept on the floor. It was 5 times better than a 5 star hotel. We had a pool, waterslide, hot tub, amazing view of the red rocks, shuffleboard table, movie room, pool table, the list goes on and on. You would have to see it to believe it. SO awesome! We all want to go back next year! This picture is of my mom with the leopard blankets for each recliner in the movie room. We watched "New in Town" and felt like we were at the movies.

another shot of the comfy recliners

This was the family room where we hung out alot. It had a kitchen to the left with some funky zebra barstools.

My sister took more pictures of the house, but just let me say it was incredible. We ended up playing a "white elephant" game with Ginny, Tamera's mom trying to get rid of some of the stuff she has in her house. She basically gave us all presents that were darling and also had a fun little Halloween craft for us to do. Talk about great hostess!! It felt like Christmas! We had a great time and always look forward to spending time with my great family laughing, talking, and eating. Can't wait for next year girls!

End of summer activities

We had a great summer and kept ourselves really busy playing outside and getting dirty.
Here is a whole bunch of pictures I have been meaning to upload but haven't gotten around to it, enjoy!

Preston found a small mud puddle at the park and enjoyed every inch of it. In case you weren't sure, his shirt is plaid. The mud puddle was a little distance away from where I was sitting so I when he came back to eat lunch, he just casually tells me that he pooped on the grass by the mud puddle. Carter confirms this and so I had to run over there and sure enough he did! I have a dog on my hands! He was so proud of himself, I couldn't help but laugh. (Just fyi, I picked it up and threw it away and washed my hands and his shortly after!)
There is also a really fun splash park in Highland about 10 min. from us that we went to and had a great time! I didn't discover it until around Labor Day, so hopefully next year we can go again and it will still be exciting for the boys.

We went with some friends from the neighborhood and Preston and Lucy Milne were by each others sides the whole day. Here is Preston giving her a smooch. Me and her mom Marcella were joking about marrying them off one day. Too cute!

Someone must have been thirsty!

We promised the boys we could camp in the backyard once this summer. We had so much fun watching a movie in the tent, making smores in the microwave, and me and Presto sleeping in our own beds when it got late. Carter and James were troopers and stayed in the tent all night.

Aren't they the cutest boys in the world? They have so much fun together.

Watching Horton Hears A Who in the tent

We love Stewart Falls and thought this year would be a good year to take the boys. We picked the wrong day on Labor Day weekend when a huge bike race was going on. We almost hit about 5 bikers and found out later that one biker was in critical condition from someone else hitting them. Why would they not close off the road? Not sure... anyway we finally got there and were on our way.

Carter did a great job hiking and didn't complain the whole way to the falls. The way back was a different story, but he did hike 2 miles great. I was proud of him.

Amazing scenery

Eating some snacks at the falls. Preston loves almonds!

Carter found a great hiking stick

Stewart Falls

I am so sad that summer is over but I am looking forward to all of the fun fall things we do as a family!