Hurricane with the Baileys

We love spending time with family. Our family and Ambers family left a little earlier then the rest of them, we decided to stop at Red Cliffs. We did a fun little hike that the kids loved! They wanted to do it again on the way home.

We even found a big foot track!

When we got to the condo the kids were begging to go swim. We waited until more people showed up, then headed to the pool. It was too cold for me so I sat by the fire freezing while the crazies swam.

Hopefully no one else wanted to get in the hot tub!

Then next day we headed to Snow Canyon to do some of our favorite hikes.

Snow Canyon is a great place to take kids! The hikes are perfect for them.

So much to explore!

After Snow Canyon we went over to Pioneer Park, another one of the kids favorites. We were going to skip it, but the kids wouldn't hear of it!

We can't leave St. George with out going to Glitter Mountain. Not everyone wanted to go here, but our kids did. This was another thing the kids had to do. 😊

No better way to end a long dirty day then getting in the hot tub!

The next day we found a park and had a pickleball tournament. We also played in the splash pad, and played some volleyball and spikeball.

We had a great trip. The only thing that would have made it better is if Spencers and Trevors families could have made it!

On our way home we decided to drive through Zions.

We love our 5th grader park pass!

Another fun Bailey vacation in the books!

 

Random Spring Things

Jaycee was able to play on a comp basketball team with some of her cousins. She is so lucky to have so many cousin close in age that live near by.

I had some cancer removed from my forehead.

On the same day we took Viv to get her ears pierced. She has been wanting to get them done for a while. We are counting them as part of her birthday, even though it isn't for another couple of weeks.

Later that night Bensen and Vivian had soccer games.

It was a busy day!

My forehead healed up nicely. Jaycee and Vivian share a room up stairs. Jaycee is the best big sister, when Vivian falls asleep during scriptures Jaycee carries her up to bed.

Lastly we had to document that Bensen kind of ate with us when we had tacos. He didn't put really anything on it, but he ate and didn't cry...so there is that.

 

Happy Easter

Grandma got a new bike, the little kids love riding on the back with Grandma!

We love the chance to celebrate Easter! This year thing were much more busy then last year. One of the good things about Covid were that we were able to focus more and spend more time together studying about Jesus. This year things were back to mostly normal. So we didn't have as much time together because of basketball, soccer, lacrosse, and church class activities. But were were able to talk about our favorite scriptures about Jesus and hang them from a branch of our peach tree. We also followed along with the Come Follow Me.

I sure love this family of mine, I am so grateful that because Jesus Christ we can be together forever!

 

Happy Birthday to Me!

I turned 39! I remember 40 being old, I don't feel old. I had a great day! It started off with a strawberry fritter and  hash browns from Sill's. After breakfast I got in the bathtub and relaxed for a bit. Then we headed to Logan for Wesley's first Lacrosse game. He didn't get a lot of minutes in the game, but I think he did pretty good in the time he got!

Later we went to Tucanos Brazilian Grill with Amber, Tyson, and my parents. It was delicious! Then we went over to Amber and Tyson's and played a couple of board games.

It was a great day!

My family is so sweet and made me feel so special! 

I got love notes from Bensen and Vivian, candy from Jaycee and Wesley, and Mike got me rollerblades, geekbits for my quacks game, and a windchime that I love!

It really was a great day!

 

First Family Ski Day

Mike has taken Jaycee and Wesley skiing a few time this year on our get out passes. They have loved it! Our neighbors the Ulrich's told Mike that you can get cheap tickets at Nordic Valley if you purchase them online in advance. So we got tickets for $19. In hind sight we shouldn't have bought me a ticket, because me and Mike didn't ski at the same time.

Mike took everyone but Viv up at 10. He worked with Bensen while Jaycee and Wesley went off by themselves. Me and Viv came up a little later, Viv went to school for an hour. I picked her up, stopped at Burger King and headed up to Nordic. When I got there Bensen thought he was done! After lunch we got him going again. Both me and Mike spent some time with Bensen and Vivian. Mike did a good job with Bensen, he was doing so good! After a bit Mike even got Bensen on the lift! He didn't love that! Then Mike went and skied with Jaycee and Wesley for a little while. Vivian was loving it, and would have continued to go all night! Bensen was done though, after every run he wanted to go back to the car to get a drink. Which is no easy feat, especially with two kids in ski boots. We went back to the car around 2:30, Mike came down and switched me and I took 1 run! 

It was my first time skiing in about 20 years! I'm not going to lie, I was pretty nervous. I don't even have a ski coat! Lucky for me it was pretty warm and my hoodie worked just fine. Getting on the lift was fine, I couldn't remember how to get off. It all worked out, and we were off.

We got to a point where we could continue down the mountain or head over to the new lift that takes you to the top of the mountain. I tried to convince the kids we should just continue down, my legs and feet were dying, but Wesley really wanted to go to the new lift. We headed that way. I was so slow, and I would pull off to the side to let all the crazy good little kids fly past me! We made it to the new lift, it is a big 6 seater. Once we get sitting down Wesley tried to scoot over a little closer to me and some how it pulled him down, so I was holding onto him telling him to pull himself up, which he obviously couldn't do with his ski's and boots on. So I told him we were going to drop him once we got to the lowest spot. He was only hanging for a couple of seconds then I threw him off, it was about 8 feet high or so. I yelled to him that we would wait for him at the top. I was pretty worried that he wouldn't get back on, especially by himself, but he did! He is a trooper. We were having fun slowly making our way down, Wesley was messing around and somehow hit himself in the face with his pole! 

It was an eventful last run! Mike was surprised at all our excitement. He said he had them all day and no one got hurt! All in all we had a good time. I would go back, it would be nice to ski with Mike. 

We ended the day watching the Jazz game. It was a good day.