Girl's Trip 2026

Our annual girls trip is something I look forward to ALL YEAR LONG!!! And this year did NOT dissapoint!

We drove down to St. George on Thursday night after grabbing the best burritos from Maize. We listened to Nate Bargatze on the drive down and watched (I listened) to Pride and Prejudice in preparation for the anticipated binge watching of "The Other Bennett Sister". 

I should clarify- Lucy watched P&P, Grace and Marian slept! It had been a big week and everyone was ready to rest.

We started off the morning with a hike in Snow Canyon...one of my favorite places on the planet. I feel like the sky is bluer (more blue?) here than anywhere else I have ever been.

Can you even with that smile?

We are pretty much the coolest and I am the LUCKIEST to have such fun, adventurous, and delightful daughters!!!!

I almost can't breathe thinking that this girl... is headed off to college and then on a mission soon.

{imagine picture of Lucy here}

she is in her "no photos" era so be grateful for every glimpse of her you get!

Next stop was Orange Peel for the Choco-wake up shake...it is soooo good that no one was brave enough to order something different.

Pedicures at Pro Nails and Spa was a total hit!!! 

This may not have been our only Swig run. I was trying to re-create the yummiest combo my friend Brooke Urry brought me before girls camp...Diet Dr. Pepper with raspberry puree and sugar free coconut syrup. NOT raspberry syrup...that was a dissapoiunting miss.

Baptisms at the St. George Temple...SUCH a pretty temple inside and out!

Gotcha Lucy! She brought family names and got to be baptized for two sisters!!! Maybe they were having their own girls weekend up in Heaven too!

Love

That's right- I'm a cool mom and got everyone matching pink leopard print pajamas.

Before I had kids- I'd often pictured myself as a "boy mom" - I'm sure that would have been fun...but I have a hard time believing it would be MORE fun that a weekend of hiking, swimming, pedicures, Nertz tournaments, ice cream, Thai food, reflexology at FIKA, and binge watching "The Other Bennett Sister"with my favorite girls on the planet!  

This show did NOT disappoint! We all LOVED it!

 

NYC with Marian day 3

French pastries for breakfast: check!

Triple check!

We made a valiant attempt to go to church but the times listed online were wrong so we missed it...shoot!

We rallied and walked down to Chelsea Market on our way to explore the high-line

It was SO BEAUTIFUL!! We absolutely loved it! The gardens, the views (of the city and of peoples cool apartments), the architecture...totally loved it. Especially enjoyable was the mango sticky rice we picked up at Chelsea Market and the High-line summer playlist on SPOTIFY. Well done NYC.

Then it was a quick train ride to the airport, wardrobe change into the requisite I LOVE NYC t-shirts and with that the trip to the "greatest city in the world" was done! 

 

NYC with Marian Day 2

We started off the day right with delicious acai bowls before heading on the subway

 to Battery Park

We took the ferry out to the Statue of Liberty. So cool!

The views from the statue's pedestal were great!

Not a great picture but we opted not to wait in the line of 1 million people to get a picture with the iconic Bull on Wall Street

Possibly the best food we had all weekend.

We spent the afternoon at the 9-11 museum walking tour. Apparently this is the only picture I took. The fountains are such a beautiful memorial. One stream of water for every victim that died in the attacks that day. The rose means it is that persons birthday that day.

Levain cookies did not disappoint. I "accidentally" ordered one of every kind and the chocolate chip walnut was the winner by far.

After cookies a little souvenir shopping, we made our way to Columbus Circle for Dizzy's Jazz club at Lincoln Center. The musicians were amazing. The views of Central Park in the background were amazing. The style of jazz was a little too free-form for me but the experience overall was so cool.

I think the pictures from the Jazz club are on Chad's phone which means we may never see them...but you never know.

After the Jazz club we went to "Top of the Rock" at Rockefeller square. The views!!!! So cool to do it at night!

We were all ready to get in bed and watch a movie (or BYU football game if your name is Chad) and eat the left-over Levain cookies but we made a quick stop at Bryant Park on the walk home because it was just so charming!

Chad stayed up to watch BYU win their game, Marian and I watched about 1.5 Psych episodes before falling asleep with cookies in hand. It was a great day!

NYC with Marian Day 1

For Jack's 18th birthday Chad and I took him to Boston. It was so fun to have that one on one time with our then senior that we decided to make it a tradition. We let Marian choose where she wanted to go and she picked NYC. 

In true teenage fashion she started off the trip exhausted!! This girl goes so hard with school, work, friends, mountain biking, service clubs etc... Good thing she got a nap on the plane because this was NOT a relaxing trip!  Fun...but not relaxing. 

We started off the day right with NY bagels and "shmear" from Ess-a-bagel. Marian and I got the poppyseed bagels and they were delicious

We ate on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while we waited for Chad who had gone back to the hotel for his sunglasses. We had so much fun people watching and dog watching. There were dog walkers with at least 5 dogs each everywhere.

Once Chad made it we went in for a guided tour. I could spend DAYS at the Met. Some favorites...

Marian was most excited to see Monet's Water Lillies

Chad was most excited to see George Washington

...and A. Ham

Mary Cassatt is my FAVORITE!!!

After the museum we road bikes around Central Park. 

E-bikes are definitely the way to go!

We dropped off the bikes to explore the rest of the park on foot and found the yummiest fresh fruit stand

We paid homage to John Lennon while we listened to a semi-talented Beatles fan pay tribute on his guitar. "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" was his best.

Lots and lots of walking and talking...which I love!!

It was so fun having all that time together with no distractions. So many good conversations and just happiness being together. Being a teenager is rough. Being a parent of a teenager...even AMAZING teenagers is rough. We are all doing our very best and love each other like crazy but we all make mistakes and life and relationships get messy. It was so nice to have this time to just have fun together!

After Central Park, we walked down 5th avenue to check out all the shops and explore more of the city and cool architechture...like this Loius Vuitton store...that looks like a suitcase!!

We didn't buy anything here but it was really fun to look around!

Banana pudding from Magnolia bakery was as good as everyone said it would be!

Grand Central Station! 

We took a ferry over to Brooklyn and the views of the city from the East River were so pretty.

Brooklyn!!!

Pizza at Grimaldi's then a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge before heading uptown for a Broadway show

We finished the night at Hadestown and it was FANTASTIC!! 

I bawled my eyes out but loved every single minute of it! There is something magical about live theater and I am SO glad we got to experience that.

We walked through Times Square and made our way home for the night. It was a very full and fun day!