My week

My week started off not to great, piles of laundry and very sick kids. Actually Elsie never got sick but she played along with the big kids. Really I think she just wanted to drink the juice.

By Thursday everyone was well so went out to and got some frozen yogurt to celebrate.

I love summer and I love healthy kids!

Vacation Time

Vacation Time. Since we are living in Utah (so don’t need to come here to visit family) this year for our family vacation we decided take a road trip. Our first stop we went to Cedar City, UT to watch the Utah Shakespearean green show. Our kids loved it! Jensen liked all the men’s short skits and Siesa and Elsie liked the dancing. We all enjoyed the fruit tarts and chocolates we got. We then spent the night with my Aunt and Uncle.

Our second stop we went to Flagstaff, AZ to visit my Brother and his fam.

We celebrated the fourth of July with a hometown parade, hamburgers and homemade ice-cream for dinner.

We visited 3 nation parks. Walnut Canyon, Wupatki, free standing Indian ruins and Sunset Crater, a volcanic rock field.

Elsie wanted to talk down all 240 steps at Walnut Canyon. She was very determined and walked down at least half of them before I got tired of the pace and carried her.

Derek and I had a little afternoon date and went Lowell Observatory. We saw the telescope that was used to discover Pluto.

For stop number 3 we went camping at the Grand Canyon. Camping is always fun, cooking dutch oven, s’mores, and all the stars. Sad to report that the kids were not that impressed with the Grand Canyon. Jensen was so surprised that people come from all over the world just to see it.

At each national park (we went to four) Jensen earned his junior ranger badge. He had to learn about the park, pick up littler, and do different activities in a booklet to get it each one. He also had to make a promise that he would protect the parks, the environment and wildlife. He was very good at reminding all of us to stay on the path and respect the park. He was very proud when he earned his 4^th one.

Jensen has never liked getting his picture taken so I let him take a few shots.

Stop number 4 the emergency room. While camping Siesa got sick, really sick. She didn’t have a fun trip home. When I asked Siesa what her favorite part of the trip was she said “nothing” I asked again and reminded her of all the fun stuff we did before she got sick but she still said “nothing”. There is nothing like an emergency room visit to ruin a vacation.

Overall it was a GREAT vacation.