Finishing Up March...

There were some fun things that happened in March so I'll just post a few. Bryson participated in his first Piano Festival a couple of weeks ago. He played Smoke Signals and Accidental Wizard. He did awesome!! He was soooo nervous though. I can totally relate. I remember playing at festivals when I was young and taking piano and I was soooooo nervous too and I hated it - but he has a really great teacher (thanks Shell :) ) that makes it fun and the judge was very nice and he did do a great job and got a really high score! Good job buddy!!

And... for Christmas Aunt Jo gave all of the grandkids a coupon that was good for a "Day with Jo". The boys have been so excited to do this and spend some time with Jo - they love Aunt Jo. Bryson redeemed his the other day - went to the movie, then to dinner, and then to Barnes and Noble to pick out a book. He had such a great time - loved every minute of it. Thanks Jo!! Dillon is looking forward to redeeming his in the next couple of weeks.

For Spring Break we decided to take the boys and go and visit Grandpa and Grandma Cummings down in St. George, Utah for 5 days. We stopped in Salt Lake the first day and went to the Hill Air Force Base Museum in Layton. The boys loved it and my biggest boy of all - David, wanted to stay all day.

Then we went to Chuck E. Cheese's for dinner - the boys had never been so they had a blast of course! Bryson had gotten tickets to the Jazz basketball game for that night from playing Jr. Jazz. So, David took Bryson and Dillon to the Jazz game. They loved it!! They kept talking about everything! They are already looking forward to next year. Me and the 2 younger boys hung out in the hotel room - we were in such a hurry to check into our motel and get them to the game that we forgot to get some of the toys that we had brought with us just for such an occasion as this - so.... it was a long time in the hotel room for me and the 2 boys and there was NOTHING on TV so me and Logan sat and watched golf and munched on cheese crackers - oh ya, we walked around the hotel a couple of times. Oh well... the next morning we got up and headed to St. George. The boys were so excited to finally see Grandma and Grandpa. Below are some pics of some of the things we did there.

We went to Little Black Mountain Petroglyph Site - it was really neat to see the writings by Indians on the rocks. The boys thought this was really cool. It was a boys paradise playground - rocks and rocks and more rocks to climb on and explore.

Bryson found a lizard, they were hard to spot - they would almost blend right in with their surroundings.

Dillon and Bryson loved to just climb and explore. It was pretty cute to hear them talk about the indians and pretend that they might come and sneak up on them.

And Mason... well, he just liked to taste the rocks.

CUTE boys!! :)

Logan was picking up and collecting rocks and carrying them in his shirt - he asked Grandma why she wasn't carrying her "treasures" in her shirt. Too cute.

Love the dusty bottom! :)

The Glitter Hole - this place was soooo shiny! You almost needed some sunglasses to look at it. It was pretty... pretty sparkly.

The pictures really don't do it justice - they were rocks that looked like glass - pretty cool.

We went and saw the dinosaur tracks in the rock. The boys again thought that this was really cool. Again, the picture doesn't do it justice, but you get the general idea.

We went to Fort Pierce (or something like that) that was built by some settlers in attempts to keep indians from taking their land. Again it was a place for climbing and exploring.

We went to Zions National Park because the boys had never been. Loved seeing all of the beautiful jagged rocks and cliffs. We hiked to Weeping Rock and also drove through the tunnel that goes through the mountain.

When we got to the other side we were driving and came upon a fox, we only got a picture of the back end - weren't quick enough with the camera. It happened to be at a sandy place with rocks so we let the boys get out and play for a bit. Mason was so funny - he didn't mind too much if his toes and feet touched the sand but he didn't want his fingers touching the sand at all. Too funny!

David's birthday happened to be while we were there so on that day we went to the driving range and hit some balls. David has golfed a little but the boys had never done anything like it and as for me... well, I've been golfing once in my life and it was obviously apparent at my lack of skill. Oh well, I did hit a few balls. However, the boys loved it and Bryson has informed me that he would like his own set of golf clubs for his birthday. Hmmmm.....

Grandma and Grandpa showing the boys how it's done.

After some shopping we went bowling, then had dinner and they had gotten David a Lemon Sour Cream from this super yummy pie place down there - it was scrumptious!!! Yum! Yum! Yum! After that we went and played a round of minature golf in the dark (it was a pretty neat course and fun) and did the batting cages. I'm glad that we could be with David's mom and dad for his birthday - I know he enjoyed it and had a great day. The next day we went to the Wildlife Musuem which was really cool and then headed for home. We didn't end up getting home until after midnight but it was sooooo FUN and so nice to get away for a bit. The boys loved being with grandma and grandpa!