Family Vacation

Last month my family went on vacation down to our favorite place in the world, St. George. While most everyone else went down on Sunday/Monday, Brock and I went down on Thursday night and because Torie was taking the ACT the coming Saturday she, my mom and grandma left Friday morning. So, the whole family was only able to be together for about 12 hours. Even though we didn't get to spend a lot of time down there, I'm surprised at how much we ended up doing.

Thursday we arrived really late because we had Brock's grandpa's funeral that day so we just stayed up late talking to everyone and catching up with my sister, bro-in-law and kids that live out of state.

Friday we woke up early and went to this amazing breakfast place right off of the boulevard. I had crepes stuffed with yogurt and whipped cream. They were sooo good. Afterwards we went to a park down the road that has fountains and a mini-river for little kids to play in.

After the park, the boys went wave running and cliff jumping at a nearby lake and the girls went swimming with the kids. Later in the day my sisters and I went out to the lake to join the guys. I didn't take my camera but it was a lot of fun.

Saturday we took the kids on a hike just up the road from my parent's house. My dad, Brock, Braden and Julia came along. We didn't get all the way up the trail but when you're with little people with little legs it takes a lot longer. On our way back home the kids started getting really tired. Miles asked Julia to hold him so he got a ride back but poor Ava was so tired that she bent down to look at her hands and froze that way. We tried to get her to keep walking but it was as if she was in a trance. Brock picked her up exactly how she had been squatting and carried her home. The funny part was that she never stopped looking at her hands until we put her down on the couch and she fell asleep.

That afternoon we decided to have our much anticipated tennis tournament. As a side note, to say that my dad is competitive is a serious understatement. The man can't lose and it doesn't help that he is really good at sports and will bend the rules in order to have it go his way. So after winning Steve and Jenny, Katie and I challenged my dad and Brock to a game. We started playing and got up to 30-30 when Katie has this awesome slice shot that bounces right over the net on the left side where my dad is playing deep. Brock didn't even bother going for it because even though he was playing short he was on the right side and couldn't have made it in time so as I almost start cheering I see my dad sprint to the front of the court, swan dive into the net and concrete and knocked the ball just over the net out of reach. We were all kind of stunned to see that good of a hit but as we looked back, my dad was still on the ground so we rushed over to see if he was ok and found him like this:

He had been running so fast and fell so hard that the net sliced his forehead open. About 10 minutes later he had the net lines imprinted into his forehead. Then about a week later he had his finger x-rayed because he was worried he broke it, the Dr. said it wasn't broken but couldn't completely tell because it was so swollen. These are just the first few injuries he picked up because of this shot but even though he was in pain he couldn't help but ask if he won the point.