Family Vacation 2010

Day 1- We left late. Crazy, I know US leave late. ha ha So this was what we did our whole first day. Yep, a car ride. There was so much snow Shane and I almost turned around there. We could only go 25 miles per hour.
When we got to our triple wide- I mean cabin. We hunkered in for the night hoping tomorrow would be a better day.



Day 2-Bryce Canyon and Snow... The next day we woke up to lots of wind and snow. So there was a lot of this going on...
And this...
And this...
And this...Yes, I paid $6.00 for that coloring book so the little girls would have something to do.
That afternoon the snowing had stopped, but not the wind. We ventured out for a drive. I was going crazy stuffed up in that cabin. We even got out of the car for a minute!



As you can tell the wind was very strong!
At the top of the canyon the older kids got out to play in the snow.

While Kailin, Brynlee and I stayed in the car to keep warm. I did get out for a couple of minutes. After the first stop Kailin wanted nothing to do with getting out so she practiced her driving skills.
This was on the way back. Look at how high the drifts on the side of the road were.
On the way back down Shane and I stopped to look at another point. None of the kids would join us for this one.



Day 3- Mossy Cave and Calf Creek...Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day. The sun was out and shining. It was great! We started off by doing a hike near Tropic called Mossy Cave. Alisha told us about this hike. It was the kids favorite!



Trey and I at the top! The cave was awesome with all the ice crystals.
We took a break at the park. The kids love the old fashioned merry go round.
The Schwan's man was across the street so I stopped him and bought a box of ice cream!
Lower calf creek. We started the hike. No, we didn't finish the hike. About 1 1/2 miles into it we decided we needed to head back. The girls were tired and we were running out of day light!

Since we came back from the hike early we let the kids play in the water!

We came back to Tropic and got pizza for dinner. Then headed off to the park!


Day 4Bryce Canyon .... We went back to Bryce on our way home. It was so cold on Friday that we didn't really get to take very good pictures. Day 4 was beautiful!
The wind was still blowing as you can tell.




At least we accomplished a family picture on the last day of our vacation.

Cole's field trip... April 20th

I know I am posting a tad bit late on this. Cole had a field trip last Tuesday. His class went to the Wildlife Museum in St. George. He had such a fun time seeing all the different animals.

Yes, I got to tag along for this one!

This is one of his his friends Lyv. They had a hands on room for the kids to get out their wiggles!


The animals that were all around were so fun to look at!

This is Cole and his wonderful teacher Mrs. Holdaway. She has been such a good teacher for Cole. I could not of hand picked a better teacher for him!

Survivor 2010

Shane and I went to a fun birthday party for my friend Colony. She played the game Survivor. We are both competitive so ending up on different tribes was a challenge.

My team The Hero's:

Shane's team The Villians:

The Villians even had a Russell. LOL
Some of the Challenges were building a fire to burn through a rope! The purple team may have won that challenge, but I also think this is when we figured out they were The Villians.
Survivor Bocce Ball. The Hero's took this win! Yeah!
Survivor relay: We raced across blocks, under tables, through mud, down a hill and back the same way. The Hero's took another win!

We had to race and get bags of puzzle pieces and put them together. The Villians won this one as well! :(

We had a one on one tug of war. Each standing on logs the first to let go or touch the ground first lost! The Hero's took another victory!

The Survivor Gang that can: OUT WHIT, OUT LAST, AND OUT PLAY!
The Individual Winner of the night: A Hero-Colony Perry

It was such a fun night! Thanks for inviting us to your birthday. I can't wait to see what you do when you turn 30! LOL