Ready for Rain and Rent

So Kelsey and I have the same coat (well almost the same). It's funny, cause last year I totally made fun of her coat cause i thought it was so crazy and noisy and just too much and then it kinda grew on me and I saw one on sale and got it and now we're twins!

St. George Halloween Weekend

So we went on a get a way over halloween so we didn't have to answer the door to little kids and not have any candy to give them. That happened and all I had were some pastacio nuts...so that's what i gave them...call me crazy! They didn't seem to mind. Their parents probably did! But that's one of the many reasons we went and had a great weekend in sunny St. George. It seriously was a blast. As you can tell from the pictures and the pictures don't even begin to describe. It

We stayed in a mansion on the golf course where they filmed HSM 2. There was a hot tub and a pool, we ended throwing each other in at 3am. after playing hours and hours of Mafia.

Erin said that this was my car, because it had my license plate "Costco" because she always says I'm a 70 year old in a 28 year old body since i like bargains, coupons and shopping at costco!!!

The crack and our scrumtous BLT meal as a family together! It was a great time! I wish I knew how to put videos on this thing, cause I have some fun ones of us getting thrown in the pool...so if you read this and want to clue me in on how easy it is, just let me know.

St. George and the crack

Jake looking hot as usaul.

Erin always taking care of business...our room was double booked I guess.

Les and I in the rain made hot tub.

Jimmy found a nice little tunnel bed.

The beginning of the crack...it was already a tight squeeze so i didn't chance the rest of the way. Amanda got a hole in her shirt...guess that was a good choice for me to stay out.

Fourwheeling...one of my new favorite sports

Our last night there, Haley and I found the edge of the canyon and went exploring. we past a herd of roaming in the middle of the road cows. it was great fun!

smore's...yummy

Holly and I also found the edge of the canyon. it was beautiful and dusty.

Kara and I found a great rock on our ride on the mule.

So we seriously went four wheeling all day long! It was the best time ever! I absolutely love the speed, the wind, the control. It is one of my favorite things to do!

Moving campsites at Dusk...works

The caravan to the new campsite!

Never leave home without your cell phone, even if you're camping.

I officially love the desert! Never thought I would, because I have usually hated it, but between the scenery to New Mexico and southern Utah, I am amazed at the beauty and just love it!

The crew had just gotten back from a long road trip and boy were they dirty! I thought it was pretty funny, but then I joined up and became really dirty too, that's just the joy of camping with no showers or running water. We seriously roughed it!

The moving of the tents and Holly being herself.

Haley, the ever helpful girl, just doing what she can to help us along! Gotta love her!

So I guess to keep with tradition, moving just before it got dark and into the dark had been the tradition on this trip, so why not!!! Hunting season started the next day and we didn't want to become the hunted, so we packed up and moved up to goosberry mesa for a dirty, yet really fun next couple of days.

Indian Ruins in Aztec

Look at their ingenuity...using logs to help stabilize things.
This is part of their temple, where they would go and smoke the peace pipe.
Look, authentic indian grinding stones.
I thought this was just a cool picture. Note how short the doors are...wow, cause I'm pretty short and even I had to duck down.
This was a column inside their temple. Pretty cool how they were so creative and cared what every detail looked like. (A lot like us in our Temples).
We were on our way and decided to stop at the ancient ruins in the city of Aztec. That got us going on our ancient civilizations tour, which was totally cool, but made us go a bit out of our way and arrive home about 2 am. The Lord blessed me so I could stay awake and drive, because anyone who knows me, knows that I don't do well at night driving. So it was pretty much a miracle that we made it home.

On the way home

That is one narrow ladder and stair case we had to climb up.

We took a few detours, because Hal and I both believe that there has to be joy in the journey not just the destination. So we stopped and looked at some Indian Ruins. It was pretty cool. When you look at them far enough away, they look like little sand castles. But then when you get close, you see that they were people's homes. How they did it is amazing to me. They lived in stone houses, but I was telling Hal, the cool thing about people is that we have brains that are smart enough to adapt to our situations in life. That doesn't mean we always like it, but we somehow figure out how to survive and wow, the Hopi Indians did an amazing job of it. I'm still dumbfounded how people could live like that, when here I am using a lot of electricity to power my fish tank, my computer, my lamp, my ipod my phone...all right now...and they had nothing and slept on dirt floors everyday! Wow. I am amazed.

I love to see the Temple

Off we went to the Temple after our game of Spoons and took some pictures. Kids will be kids and do what they do. Austin in the fountain and Amberly chasing him running up and down the steps. It turns out that her dress was kind of an impediment!!! And then, I really liked this picture of them all walking together hand in hand like couples should to the car from the temple! It's a beautiful sight!