Off to St. George...again!

Paul traveled to Florida for the ISPA tradeshow this last week. It was almost a week long trip so the kids and I packed up and headed to St. George to save our sanity. As always, we love visiting Grandma and Grandpa Stewart, playing out in the hot sun, and just lounging around for a few days. 

Stewart got really confident on the wiggle car and went cruising down Grandma and Grandpa's backyard sidewalk. He had a whirlwind of emotion on his face with sheer nervousness and terror on his face at the top of the hill but as he managed to turn the wheels and end up on the patio instead of tipped upside-down in the grass, he was so proud of himself and showing a ginormous smile. I love watching my little guy grow and do new things.

Lily was so sweet to help her little brother when he did get stuck in the grass. She is an amazing sister and Stewart is so lucky to have her. She is always taking care of him and making sure he is safe and having fun. I hope their friendship continues to grow as they get older.

Grandpa has some lively, terrifying Halloween decor including a hooded, skeleton man that rumbles and glows if you walk by him. Stew was trying to be as brave as he could be. Whenever someone was holding him and would walk by, he would growl at the skeleton and show him he wasn't scared. But the minute you would put Stew down by it, he would turn and run as fast as he could and start bawling trying to find someone to save him. It was the cutest thing!

Grandma and Grandpa bought a pumpkin for Lily to carve. She was so excited. As much as I always try to be a good festive mother, I don't always get around to doing all that I should with the kids. I think that this was Lily's first time really carving pumpkins. She thought it was pretty awesome. And of course, being the slightly twisted girl that she is, she wanted a mean, angry pumpkin. (So weird that she is fascinated with the scarier things of life, in every movie or show, her favorite parts or characters are always the dark villians - funny girl, hope I shouldn't worry too much about her).

Stewart loved that he got to sit on the counter and watched Grandpa carve away as he devoured the pumpkin lid of our Jack-o-lantern. 

Once our pumpkin was all carved and scary, we added a flickering light and enjoyed him out on the porch. We all loved our visit to St. George but were glad to get home to Daddy. Plus, Paul had a great show, meaning he will have lots more business trips to come so it won't be long before we pack up and head to St. George yet again!