St George Girls' Trip

St George Girls' Trip
October 13-16

We've been planning for months to go on a little vacation with the girls down to St George.  I feel so lucky to have such amazing friends living right in my neighborhood.  There were seven of us that went on the trip, six from the neighborhood, Amy, Alisa, Ashly, Kelly, Amber, and me, and even Jana was able to join us.  It was so nice to get away, have time with friends, relax, laugh, and only have to worry about one person.  There was nobody else to clean up after, wash, laundry, etc.  I think we all came back new women that weekend!  I felt like a whole new person, ready to be a mom again!  We left Thursday night, Ashly drove, and stayed until Sunday afternoon.  Thursday night we were up until LATE talking and laughing, which we are known to do.  Friday we went to breakfast at Kneaders and enjoyed a shopping day, we all did some damage without kids to slow us down and with friends to encourage our purchases!, then went to dinner at Brick Oven and to the movies and saw the new Foot Loose movie.  After another late night of talking and laughing we went on a walk in the morning, and spent Saturday out by the pool.  The house we rented was perfect for the seven of us.  It had everything we needed, including our own pool.  We just lounged around the pool, ate, talked, read magazines, and enjoyed the peace and lack of responsibilities!  That night we got pedicures and then went to dinner at a Tepanyaki type restaurant where they cook the food in front of you.  Sunday we just cleaned up and packed, grabbed Subway for lunch and headed home.  It was a much needed, wonderful few days away!

 Settling in our first night.  Below was my room, I shared with my good friend Kelly, and she is a great roommate!

The girls outside the dressing room helping me with my selections!

 Here are all our shopping bags.  We didn't need much time to do this much damage!

 We found climbing wall rocks at a park by our house.  We had fun having a photo session on the rocks.  We really thought we were funny with our yoga poses and shadows!

 Alisa made us some delicious fancy appetizers!

 Kelly and me lounging by the pool

 We really thought we were funny taking pictures of each of us being fed grapes and being fanned by the pool.  We sent them to our husbands, and got a variety of responses.  Matt laughed when I told him, he hadn't responded because he couldn't tell what it even was because of the sun glare.  We enjoyed ourselves anyway!

 Kelly curled my hair all fancy for our last night out.  I wish I could do that myself, but it just doesn't look the same.  Alisa did all of our eye makeup so we could each feel extra fancy.  It was fun to look a little different for a change.

 Jana, Ashly, Amber, Amy, Kelly, Alisa, Kristin