Cowley Family Trip to Hurricane

August 10th-12th was the annual trip down to Hurricane for my mom, youngest sister, sister-in-law, and nieces and nephew. The Saturday before my other sister, Cara, had her baby and was unable to come. Shanelle had been here all week because we're looking for a job for her down here. If we can find her one, she'll move in with us. That's what we did on Monday and Tuesday.

Wednesday is when the rest of the family came. We went to see the Little Mermaid at Tuacahn Ampitheater. The kids sat through it and had a great time. We had frozen strawberry lemonade and popcorn. We had seats on the right front side of the theater. I was on the outside aisle and sat right by where the seagull did a lot of stuff. We were on the 5th row back. It was so much fun and I'm glad we went.

Shanelle, my mom, Luke, Kennedy, Braxten, Jacey, Katie

Thursday we took it easy. We were all exhausted from the night before and the kids got up early. We lounged around and watched a movie, The Last Song. Brax had swim lessons so we waited until they were over. My mom and I swam laps. After that and lunch we went into St. George and went shopping for school clothes and other things. It was fun to spend the day together. That evening we got pizza and went to the Hurricane City Splash Pad. It's one of our new favorite places. We played there for a couple hours. Around 8:45 we decided we were done. Branden volunteered to take the kids home so the adults went to YUMZ for frozen yogurt. After that we took Shanelle back to the house. Katie, my mom, and myself went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things. We had a good laugh on the way there due to a driving incident.

Shoe Carnival

Old Navy

Our Monkey Man

Friday we got up and headed to Sand Hollow. We got there about 9 am. We went swimming, cliff jumping, and playing in the sand. The kids even jumped a little. We took them across to the center island. My mom and Katie jumped for the first time. Shanelle had jumped on Monday night when we went out for Family Home Evening. We saw some fish while we were jumping too. Brax jumped off the higher cliff for the first time as well. It was only half as high as the adults were jumping. It wore us all out. Some look like lobsters, some just can't move. We got back to the house about 1 pm. I made lunch, orange chicken. Katie and my mom went to Costco. After that they all got ready to go and headed home. I crashed on the couch after that. I'm so glad they all came down. Shanelle is coming down again next week. It's nice to have her around. It's always nice to see family!