St George: The Quinta Year

Last year started the yearly tradition of going to St George as a family.  This year my girls were determined to catch a lizard and keep it as a pet! We would see a lot of lizards crawling around the swimming pool area each day and they thought with Nick's help, they could catch one.  (Nick has told the girls of many lizard catching adventures when he was a kid).  One day during our trip, they kept seeing lizards on the walls.  Nick grabbed a take-out box from our car and helped them trap one in the box (you can see it sticking its head out of the box in one picture).  Once they caught it, they named it Quinta (for the hotel we were staying at). They made a trip to the store to buy an official cage for him (don't know how they decided it was a boy) and spent some time making a "natural" environment for him.  They fed him ants, which were surprisingly not very plentiful in St. George. He ended up living for almost a month though after we brought him home.  It was quite the adventure! We still swam every day, Brielle and I saw The Little Mermaid, we went to movie, but Quinta was definitely the highlight of our trip!

Spa Day

 

Brielle and her friend, Brylee, decided they wanted to have a Spa Day. They used a facial mask recipe from a Fancy Nancy book.  It looked easy for them to make, but I didn't consider how banana and honey might not be good if it dripped into their hair!  All that matters is that they had fun though, right? And they looked younger, too!