Autumn Splendor!

Color...Seriously! I know it's cliche but Autumn is my favorite season!

How can you not be amazed at mother nature's color? The kids had Friday off of school so we decided to take a drive. the weather was perfect, in the 70's. The worst thing about fall color... it only lasts for a couple of weeks.

We went up Lams canyon, and on the way back Destiny said "I'm renaming it color canyon."

I know all you out-of-town friends are jealous!

Did I mention COLOR... hehe

Weekend fun

Sunday Jeff decided to blow off work (anyone who knows him understands that he is always working). We decided to call up James and see if they wanted to go for a hike. I'm glad we did, it turned into a fun day.

We headed up to doughnut falls with both family's in tow.

Dad carried Jennsen some of the way, but she was a trooper and walked almost the whole thing!

We got out on the trail and Destiny sniffs..."whats that smell" hmm... nature?

This is us starting the climb up. Last time were up here there wasn't this many rocks. It was very interesting getting all three bigger kids up the rocks, but thanks to Jeff and James we made it in one piece. All I had to worry about was getting me and the baby up.

What a reward! when you finally get to the top this is whet you see. Just beautiful.

Jeff and James climbed to the top of the falls. Jeff snapped this pick of me and the kids.

Even this picture doesn't do justice to the climb we made.

Nathan and James

Our family at the end of the hike, mud and all.

I snapped a pic of James and his family but sadly it was with there camera.

Chasing a squirrel

After the hike we went to their house for a BBQ. I threw this pic in just for the guy's...hehe

It's nice to family close : )

So a fun day! Nathan said this was the best hike ever, and the best part...climbing the rocks!

With all the physical activities of the day, we had no injuries....oh wait whats this?

Oh yea, leaving the James house Dylan gets his hand caught in the door of the truck and breaks his ring finger right below the knuckle! Just our luck. LOL

Nephi Rodeo

The Wilkey family has a tradition of going to the rodeo in Nephi where my dad grew up. It just happens to be the BEST rodeo there is.

They had a kid about 9 or 10 sing the national anthem... I was blown away, This kid had a set of pipes!

This horse comes with a story

All of the sudden a random horse comes shooting out of the stall, nearly smashing the guy's holding the gate. He comes rushing through all the people, guy's went scrambling around jumping fences throwing themselves down. The only person that got caught in the cross hairs happened to be Cotton. This is the guy who owns all the animals used in many rodeo's. The loose horse ran straight past bucking as he past. The horses head hit Cotton in the face and he went tumbling off his horse to the ground.

Everyone was scrambling, holding there breath. It doesn't help that Cotton in at least 70 years old, and been in the rodeo for over 50 years. Miracle of miracles he stood up and walked to the ambulance on his own. If that isn't the definition of tough old cowboy, I don't know what is.

There was much more. A hilarious clown, a father and so trick roping team, a crazy stunt motorcyclist, cow hide racing, and much more excitement.

As always we had a blast and are looking forward to next year

Latest zoo trip

Jeff has been trying to learn more about his camera. Some of the pictures he took at latest zoo trip were pretty amazing... Enjoy

Bunny Day!

We decided to head out of town for Easter but our trip was delayed by a phone call from a friend. His son was 4-wheeling at 1 in the morning and...oopsie is that a ledge? Needless to say, he needed some help towing it out. What this picture doesn't show is that the drop is about 15 feet down, and both passenger tires are well off the edge.

We finally got on our way, headed to St. George ( or so I thought ) Jeff decided that Vegas was only a skip and a jump from there and much more fun!

The kids have never seen anything like it. Lights, people, monorail, shows, and much more.

We took them to Tournament of the kings, our favorite family dinner show. They loved all the drama!

Then swimming!

We were so excited to get some warm weather. Bad part about swimming is trying to get the kids out.

We did some sight seeing, and as we walked around people were pointing and laughing. Took us a minute to figure out why...

Just too much fun!

And when we got home...Whatdaya know... The Easter bunny didn't forget us even though we weren't home.

All around a Great holiday. I think we might start a family tradition!

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