Parade of Homes

This is definitely one of our favorite things to do every year. There is a Parade of Homes in St. George, Utah every February (right around President's Day). We have been going for the past 8 years and it is seriously something we look forward to like Christmas morning! My Mom started coming with us last year and now she schedules her trips up here around the Parade of Homes. This year, we even got my brother and his wife to fly up from Phoenix for 2 days to go with us. Here are a few pictures of some of our favorites in the past. We get so many ideas from going and we also get to take a peak into a life we will never know. This year they even had a house that was 20,000 square feet! (No, that is not a typo!)

This house was from 2005. It is gorgeous on the outside and the inside.
It also has amazing views. It sits on top of a huge hill.

This tree was in one of the kids' room in this house. It was such a cute idea.

This is one of our all-time favorite houses. It is from 2006. It has everything you would ever want in a house and the decorating was gorgeous. It is our dream home!

Check out the view from the family room! The entire back wall opens up to the back yard and view of the red rocks.

This is the backyard of our dream home. It also has a covered patio over by the family room that opens up. It has a sitting are with a TV and a bathroom for changing and showering after swimming. It has a fire pit with benches. It was the best backyard I have ever seen!

And last, but not least, it had an outdoor shower in the master bathroom. You could go outside and take a shower right from the shower in the bathroom. My husband has wanted one of these for a long time, so when he saw this, he spent about 40 minutes in the shower alone. We seriously have about 20 pictures of this one shower. I had to beg him to come and see the rest of the house!

This is from 2008. I thought this was such a cute room in the 20,000 sf house. I would love to have a theater where you could put on plays and have a talent show!

This is also from the 20,000 sf house. Inside this room is a bowling alley with 2 lanes and about 100 pinball machines with disco lights and a stereo system. It was so fun.

I thought this was so cute on the top of a little boys' room. I would love to do this in a toy room some day. My kids would love it.

You also get really cute ideas for craft rooms. I thought this was such a great idea and it wouldn't be a hard thing to do! The ribbon sat in a little basket attached to the door of the cabinet.

This was one of the most interesting ideas I have seen at the Parade of Homes. It was a grotto that you could enter from a secret passage way through the master bedroom. A bookcase opened up and had a little sitting room in a cave and then you walked through a tunnel to get to the hot tub inside this grotto. It was crazy. The guy that built it told us that part alone cost $100,000!!!

I love this chandelier. It flickered and looked like real candles.

This was a children's playroom. It was 2 stories and looked like a little village that they could go play in. I loved it.

This might look like a nice house right? Well, it was the POOL HOUSE! It had a bar, kitchen, couches, work out area and also beds for guests. Wouldn't that be great to have this?

We love the rock on this wall. We want to do something similar in our house, so we took a picture for future reference.

Well, as you can see, it is so much fun. So, if you ever need something to do right around President's Day, go check out these houses. It will take you an entire day and even then you won't be able to see all of them. If you have time, stay the night and spend 2 days looking. Gotta love it!