the hagerj's have done it again.

on thursday april 11th, jon and i left sunny san diego for equally as sunny st. george!! i decided to be rebellious and skip class on friday so that we could drive thursday and miss vegas traffic. 

(that is seriously rebellious for me. in the past 5 semesters i think i have missed a total of 6 classes. what whaaat)

the j's drove through the night as well so that their kidlets could sleep in the car. we woke up at my dads condo to jayden staring at our door waiting for us to get up! cutest child!

we headed straight to the pool to soak up the sun splashing around and playing tennis. it was actually kind of breezy, so we hung out in the hot tub and laid out too. jon and i did a work out class at the gym and i regretted in the whole weekend. my entire body was screaming non stop.

we had dinner at cafe rio, went to target to walk around and buy a swimsuit, and had dessert at menchies. 

on saturday we woke up and went straight to the outlets to shop. the boys found these terrible shirts and seriously wanted to buy them. if they hadn't been over $50, maybe i'd have considered it.

after shopping, we went out to climb around on the rocks. jayden loved being able to run everywhere and throw rocks around! he loved it so much he almost threw a rock at his moms head. i'm sure it was unintentional though.

jeno bought a st. george themed shirt at the outlets before we went hiking. he changed into it for the hike and said "i make a shirt mine by sweating in it." so gross. 

we decided to keep up the tradition and go to texas road house for dinner. it was disappointing though and we decided to cross it off our list of places to go. that's alright though because st. george is basically made up of restaurants so we have plenty other options to try out.
lynn and jeno love to talk about how nice everyone is in utah. when we got out of texas road house, someone had parked really crappy next to their car. when we saw it, we talked about what a jerk this person must have been. then we joked about the owner of the car running out and apologizing to us. he didn't. 

lynn and i started coloring our pictures at menchies the day before this. we took our drawings home and brought them back to finish them the next night so that we could hang them on the wall. we were very proud of our drawings. jayden's wasn't as good as ours, but he was proud of his as well. (just kidding. his was better than both of ours, i'm just putting him down to make myself feel better.)
when we left menchies, someone had parked like a jerk next to lynn and jeno again!!! we could not believe it because people in utah just don't do that. ( ;) )
before we could get too mad about this person, a girl and her friend ran out of menchies yelling "i'm so sorry!!" she was the one who parked next to them and she said she thought she was going to be in and out quick so that it wouldn't matter. she was very apologetic about how she had parked. how funny is that!! we had just been joking about that at texas road house. people in st. george are just so nice. i bet they don't have any worries like us regular folks do. :)

the next morning jon and i woke up and got breakfast at the clubhouse. it was a beautiful morning and a relaxing breakfast although it wasn't as good as kneaders was the day before. after breakfast, the 6 of us drove straight to vegas!

this little guy was such a dream the entire vacation. he sat in his car seat or stroller most of the time while the rest of us were having fun, and he had hardly any complaints. he even carried my stuff for me.

our favorite thing to do in vegas is to go drink all the coke's from around the world. lynn and jeno had never done this before and it was so funny seeing their reactions! jon and i would have a little sip of it and pass it to lynn who would have the tiniest sip ever. by the time it got to jeno there was always almost half a cup left. he was sick so no one could drink it after he tried it. he drank so much soda, haha! the other best thing was paying $11 for $2 worth of m&m's! the colors were soooo cuteee thoughhhh!

for lunch we went to margaritaville. seriously. margaritaville. the j's love that place, so we gave it a shot; most interesting restaurant ever. it's like an adult rain forest cafe. the burgers were awesome though, so i can't complain too much! 

immediately after lunch we walked at least a mile to new york, new york to ride the roller coaster. the j's went first while we watched the kids and then we went. don't do it! worst roller coaster ever! it hurt my entire body. head, neck, shoulders, even my fingers hurt after riding that ride. i've done it before and i swear i liked it last time. fortunately we got the tickets 2 for 1 as a military discount! it will be very sad when we can no longer rate a military discount (starting on saturday!! :(((! )

it took. so long. to get home that night. jon is such a trooper and drove the entire way. he said that it was the worst road trip in his entire life and i'm not sure he was kidding. 

the trip was a huge success!! we love hanging out with the j's so much and we are so sad to be moving to a different state as them. we are hoping to keep st. george as an annual tradition and also hoping they'll come visit us in texas! i can't believe that in 5 and a half weeks we will be official texan residents. i haven't come to terms with that yet. 

st geeze.

let me tell you a little something about the j's. 

jeno deployed to afghanistan with jon. while they were there, they talked about how fun their wife's are. upon their arrival, we all got together and had a great time. ever since then, we've been laughing at bridesmaids quotes, discussing the fact that not only is burger lounge the best burger place in the world, but how it's ruined every other burger out there, and talking about vacationing together. obviously hawaii would be ideal, but we don't really have the time for that. lynn is expecting in september (no plane rides after a certain point in the pregnancy) and i am a full time student (year around school). about a month ago, we decided that st. george needed to be our vacation destination. they've never been to utah and haven't experienced the beauty and amazing...ness of it all. it took some persuading, but they finally agreed to it. when we got to my dad's condo last night, they realized that the drive was worth it. when they saw the mountains this morning, they realized that we are right about everything and that they will never doubt us again. they also told us that we are the dominant couple and so it's officially okay to call us as a group of four the "hager-J's."

(as I'm reading this to them, jeno says "that's a bold faced lie.")

it took us nine. hours. to get here. 

 we had a huge breakfast including pancakes, eggs, and bacon, and then spent the day at the pool and playing tennis. 

 then these two came home and just passed. out. 

 we climbed up to the top of the mountain and took in the view. it looked so beautiful. it's fun being here with people who have never been before. it's like seeing st. george through new eyes. 

for dinner, we had jeno's famous lasagna. it was excellent, as always. 

tomorrow, we plan to spend the day at zion and then treat ourselves to some Texas Roadhouse! Yeahh....