Away from the Kids, Alone with Jared in St George.

So Jared's parents drove all the way down to our house to watch the kids so Jared and I could get away. We had such a good time. We went to St George, UT, Friday after Nate got home from school. But first mom and dad got to our house sometime after 10:00 am. When Miley and I went to the door to answer it, I opened the door and Miley looks at Grandma and gives her a look like, 'Why are you here?' It was so funny. She finally warmed up to her Grandparents and remembered who they were and then followed Grandma around everywhere. Nate on the other had, when Miley, Grandma, and I went to the school to pick him up, saw Grandma and ran over, bounced more like, and yelled GRANDMA. He gave her a big hug and then asked where Grandpa was. It was supper cute.

Well Jared and I went to the Temple first when we got to St George and did some sealings. It was so much fun. I love doing sealings, because for one it reminds me of the happy day when I married Jared and two I love helping others get seal, because it is such a blessing to be sealed to the one you love. After the Temple we went to the hotel and got checked in. Then we had plans to go to 'Love Happens,' a movie that just came out....it was really good too. We ate dinner at the movie theater...pretzels, popcorn, and nachos...yeah real healthy. We had such a great time on our date.

Here is the skinny mirror that was in our hotel room, I really like this mirror, it made me look nice and skinny. Saturday morning we got ready for the day, ate the free breakfast, checked out and then went down town to check out the Tabernacle and some other historical sights. We started at the library, it was a beautiful area. They had cool sculptures, a water fall area

that kids could play in with a steam for wadding in and grass. I love grass, I miss grass. The area is called town center. Here are some of the pictures I took.

Me and Erastus Fairbanks Snow who was a missionary, founder of St George, and President of the cotton mission. See when the Saints came out to Utah, the civil war was going on after a while and the people couldn't get cotton so Brigham Young sent down a bunch of saints to St George so they could plant cotton, they actually did rather well with it too.

Me kissing a fox.

At the Tabernacle we went on a tour, it is so cool to see what the pioneers built and how beautiful it is.


This is where Lorenzo Snow gave his famous sermon, 'The Windows of Heaven."

After the tour we went over to the visitors center by the temple and wandered around. We got to hear about Christ's mission here, to see the temple and it's


beauty, we also got to see all the Book of Mormon's in all the languages it's been translated into...like Lithuanian, Jared actually helped translate on his mission the Book of Mormon into Lithuanian...cool huh!

Here he is checking out this book, he would have loved to have it when he was teaching the people on his mission. They had to use the Russian Book of Mormon and not everyone knew how to read Russian.

I really liked this painting. St.. George is such a pretty valley.
Here is Brigham Young's Winter home, yep he was the first snow bird in Utah.


This tree is as old at the house, so it was here when our 2 Prophet was walking around the grounds of his house. I thought that was so cool.

Her is a cotton plant like they grew when the first Saints went down there to settle the area. Jared looked like a Giant in the door ways of the area of the house that was first built, see Brigham built onto an existing house and this was the original part.


This was his bed and a picture of the Presidency of the church and the 12 apostles. After our tour we went up above the Dixie, painted on the hill top on the west side of town, and went hiking. It was beautiful up there and peaceful.

It did get hot after a while so we didn't wander to far, but we did get to see a great view of the valley below and the temple.


I love this Guy.


Even if he gets sick of me taking so many pictures.

The Dixie sign is right below us here.

Well before we left to go back home we also stopped at the outlet stores and got some christmas presents for the kids. I had such a great time out with Jared, I missed my cute little kids, but sometimes it's nice to me just his woman, and to be together. Thanks so much mom and dad for babysitting for us.

Who needs money anyways!

Well we are doing good. I did have a crazy experience the other day dropping Nate and his friend Trevin off at school last Thursday. At the school I stopped our SUV and got out of the vehicle, of course leaving it on so the ac was on to keep Miley cool while I opened to doors for the boys. Well Trevin was in the back drivers side so I opened his door first (it is child locked so he couldn't open it himself), then I went around to the passenger side front door, where Nate was, so I could give him a hug and tell him goodbye and to have a good day and to listen to his teacher. After saying goodbye and never even leaving the car (I could touch it the whole time), I walked over to the drivers door and opened the door, or should I say tried to open the door. As Nate was getting out he must have hit the lock button and all the doors, and back hatch had locked. That’s right my little girl was locked in the car with it running, which here is Vegas is a good thing because it is too hot to be in a car if it is off. So I called Jared and asked for him what had happened and to please get some help to me as soon as it was possible. See we don't have another key so he couldn't just come out and unlock the door for me so he called a lock smith and they said they would be out to the school in 10 to 15 min...Well Miley had already been in the car for 10ish min by that time. She kept saying and signing please over and over and begging me to open the door and get her out. I was trying to keep her happy so she wasn’t panicking, like I was inside, by playing peek-a-boo, and making silly faces. It was so hard not to just break a window so I could get her out and hold her. Well on of the men in the ward was kind enough to hang out with me as I waited for the lock smith...he was also trying to keep her happy. The last 5 to 10 min she was crying and getting really upset. Finally the lock smith got there and within 2 min had the door open. The whole fun ended up costing $135.00. I couldn't believe he charged us so much, but I was grateful that the door was unlocked and he had rushed over, so I couldn't complain to the guy. So much fun...later we found out that AAA would have come out and opened the door for free and we have triple A...the things I learn. 1. Don't get out of the car unless I take the keys or unroll my window, even if it will only be 30 sec...a lot can happen in 30 seconds. 2. Don't call a lock smith own Triple A and have them come out...you'll save a ton of money. 3. A cell phone can save a life, I was grateful I could call Jared right then and get help asap. And 4. If you are a woman, some men will take as much money from you as they can. The guy quoted Jared $45.00 on the phone; I didn't know that at the time so when he charged $135.00 I didn't argue I just paid it. I hope none of you have to go threw something this fun, or should I say scary.

Nate and Miley's Halloween Costumes for this year.

So Nate is going to be Darth Vader one last time. I know Star Wars again. I'll be amazed if he ever chooses something that isn't from Star Wars. He is really excited and wants to put on his costume as much as I will let him. I'm sure he wont fit in this costume ever again for Halloween after this year. Hopefully he wont grow much in the next month and a half because it fits him snug now.

Miley is going to be a witch. A good witch of course, I mean look at her she is so pretty that she couldn't be a bad witch. So this is the costume we finally decided on and bought for her. I hope we'll be able to get her to wear the hat, it is so cute. We'll see. You know her and Hats!

I wish Miley would wear Hats!

So I really wish Miley would wear hats. No matter what she wont allow a hat on more than 15 min, that's if I lucky enough to keep it on her head even that long. Saturday I tried to have her wear this so cute hat I bought from a friend in Salinas (Heather), because it finally fits her and is supper cute. But unfortunately it only stayed on for like 14 min...I was starting to think she was actually going to leave it on...Right! We did get these cute pictures while it was still on. Thanks Jared for getting these pictures before the hat attack started, and ended with Miley hat less once again, and me supper sad :(. LOL