Fall birthdays

Chase is now 7 and Audree is 11. A couple of the adult members of the family had birthdays too, but I won’t mention their ages. Here’s the birthday photos.

Chase

Audree

Here’s the other grandkids that were at the parties.

Cortnie

Carolyn

Elizabeth

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Snow Canyon

On our next to last day in St. George we all headed out to Snow Canyon for some exploring, hiking, and geocaching. We saw petrified sand dunes, lava tubes, and large lava flows.

Petrified sand dune

Climbing out of a small lava cave

Lava flow in the bottom of Snow Canyon

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Scout’s Lookout and Angel’s Landing

Today we put the twins to the hiking test and hiked up to Scout’s Lookout. The roughly two-mile (one-way) hike over a paved trail switch-backs up a cliff-face, ambles through Refrigerator Canyon, and then climbs 21 short, steep switch-backs up Walter’s Wiggles. In short, they handled it as well as the rest of us.

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