Hiking at Zion's - President's Day weekend

President's Day weekend we were able to get a lot done. We got half the garden tilled, changed the fuel filter, went to Brax's basketball game, went out to yard sales, etc. It was quite busy. Branden's brother Brett, his wife Christal, and two of their kids (Brevan and Payton) came down to visit Sunday night. We had a good time visiting with them. They came down for the St. George Parade of Homes. On Monday, I decided to take the boys hiking after we took Macey to the vet. We got ready to go when Branden called and said that if we could wait a little while longer he'd be off work and could go along. I'd gotten a text right before that about play day at the park with women and children from the ward. We decided to go to the park for an hour, have a picnic, and then go hiking.

The boys decided they wanted to do 3 or 4 hikes. We kept asking if they were sure and they said they were. So we did a short hike to start off the day. We went to the Weeping Rock. It wept a little, but was mostly covered in icicles. The trail had quite a bit of ice on it. Brev, Brax, and I all fell on the ice at one point or another. They made it and were almost hit in the head by falling icicles. We got there when it was warming up. Following that we decided to go hike the Emerald Pools. We made it to all three. There was ice on the way to the Lower Pool so we decided to take the other way to the Grotto on the way back. The boys got tired toward the end and Brev had fallen in the mud so he was a little wet and cold. It was a fun day though. Following the hikes (about 4 miles total) we went through the tunnel. After the tunnel we headed home for frozen yogurt. The boys had fun and so did we.

Just an update, Brax returns to the doctor on February 29th and I have a biopsy scheduled for March 7th. I am getting nervous, but ready to find out the results.