Jax Meets The Circus

When Sheri visited with cute Jax.

He decided he was coming home with us and was not going to take no for an answer.

I Miss This. Sand Hollow.

I miss this.

I could spend another week sitting on the soft sand with the 80 degree (F), crystal clear water, and the 90 degree (F) air temps.  Lunch with my parents, my husband by my side, my kids... all over the place.  But that's allowed in this setting.

My sister-in-law Sheri and my nephew Christian got to come and enjoy it with us.

Tell you what, it was hard to leave it.

The Man and I don't usually frequent the same spots over and over.  When we go somewhere we want to go somewhere new, see different things, cross more spots off our list.

But Sand Hollow has our hearts.  It's the place (along with Moab) that we keep going back to.

And now, a picture overload.

We stopped in Scipio to check out our friends at the free petting zoo on our way down to Sand Hollow.  We always leave a donation in the box.  The zebra is our favorite, the ostrich scares the tar out of us (watch out, he pecks at your head), and the little goats remind me a lot of my dogs, pushing your legs with their noses as they demand attention.

After that it was heaven spent, only pulling ourselves off the beach for lunch with my parents and when it was time to wind down and have dinner as the sun was setting.

One of us is wearing too much clothing for the occasion... it's not me.  Though The Man may have had a hand in that...

Tay, Cali, and Christian with the dolphin float

They played a lot of Harry Potter 

 
Milo's favorite game is biting at "shooting" water.  He chases the hose, the sprinklers, and the water gun at Sand Hollow was no different.  The dogs loved their life jackets, especially when we went on our long swim/climb around the giant rock piles in the lake.

Cali was so worn out after the first day of non-stop swimming that she passed out in the middle of the trailer floor, wet suit and all.

The rock adventures were amazing.  The last time we took the kids to this spot (here) the water was really high, but this year the water was much lower, leaving more of the rock in the lake exposed.  There was a lot more exploring going on.  It also didn't hurt that water was so nice and warm.

Brynn caught a lizard.

And we celebrated Christian's 13th bday with cake balls.  I regret not putting candles in the boxes while we sang.

And one night it rained in a fantastical downpour with thunder and lightning.  So we curled up in the trailer and watched a movie, or played cards in the cargo trailer.

I love that the water was so crystal clear that you can see Brynn under the water in this picture:

Strider did not like the kids jumping off the rock into the water.  He would bark loudly at them as they were jumping, and then swim out and try to herd them back onto the rock.    Once he got them back safely on the rock he would climb out and be calm, until they jumped in again and he started all over again with barking at them and swimming out the herd them back in.

I definitely miss this.