St. George with Krista

My friend and sister in law Krista invited me along on a work trip to St. George. It was only one night but it was well worth it and I don't mind the drive. 

 

Afton stayed behind with Brett and Grandma and didn't seem as sad as I'd secretly hoped. (Brett took the picture and wanted to make sure his new tree was in the background!)

Once we got to St. George we met Zane and Ivy at the Pizza Factory. Everyone was stuffed after eating huge twisty bread sticks, calzones, pizza, and yummy soda's. Zane and Ivy are incredibly talented and sweet and it was so nice to spend time with them. I miss them!  

I love these two! I'm glad they'll still hang out with me!

After dinner Krista and I went back to our room (which was really nice) and had fun talking and hanging out. My throat was hoarse by the end of the night. I can't remember the last time I'd talked so much in one day!
We slept in the next morning and it felt great to have my own big bed to snuggle up in until I chose to get out!

The next morning Krista dropped me off to meet Rache on her way to work. Rachel and I had breakfast and wandered through the Polo store. It was so great to see her (self portraits not so great, of me) and I loved just sitting and talking.

Once she left for school I was stranded (yeah). I was stranded at the outlet malls in St. George in 65 degree weather. Ahhhhhh

I wandered and wandered until Krista was done. We ate lunch in the sunshine and headed for home. Krista is so easy to talk with and the drive went by so fast. It felt good to be home and I was happy to see my little Afton.

Afton's gymnastics

 Every now and then I sign Afton up for a month of gymnastics at the Lehi Rec. Center. I thought she would love it and I was right. She is a handful though, to say the least. Within the first few minutes she is running and I am sweating. I am holding in place, picking up, chasing, corralling, and sometimes just squeezing that little body so she will be a participant. Many times I've wondered why the other kids seem to be waiting their turn, standing so quietly or resisting the urge to run away?

On another note, Afton is very flexible, very strong, and very good at doing everything physically asked of her. But everything can move slowly and Afton isn't slow.

 This one particular day I asked Grandma Watrous to come and take some pictures. Afton was excited to see Grandma and seemed to know why she was there. Afton stayed with the other kids, waited her turn, followed the leader as we walked to the different circuits and I don't think she ran away even once. Hmmm

 Afton loved having Grandma there watching, cheering, and giving support. She smiled for Grandma, held still for Grandma, waited for Grandma to get the shot, which she did.

Grandma got so many great shots and these particular ones were taken off her blog which you can check out here!