The Subway

Today I went on the most amazing adventure. I went and hiked the Subway at Zions. Oh my goodness, It was fantastic! I went with my brother in law and some people from his ward. There were about 12 of us in all. It is a 9.5 mile hike. It took us 7 hours to complete it. There was this part during the hike where you have to travel through water, I knew about this before hand and I also knew that the water was going to be REALLY cold. So I was mentally prepared for what was awaiting me...however my body was not. It was SO cold, words cannot even begin to express it. My body went into shocked mode. All I could think about was getting to the other side and getting out. I was working so hard on swimming, except my whole body went numb almost instantly. It was serioulsy the coolest thing ever.  Then I had to repel down a mountain about 10 feet. I have never repeled. I did very good for my 1st time. Then we were inside this beautiful area. I have never seen this part of Zions before. I can not express how great the whole trip was.

I feel so blessed to have been able to go out and hike that beautiful hike. It was so amazing. Matt stayed home and watch the kids so I could go. I can not wait to do it again and I can not wait to do all the other great hikes around here also. I have a feeling me and the family are going to be doing a lot of hiking in the future.

If you would like to see pictures of the Subway go here http://www.zionnational-park.com/images/album2/index58.htm

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Happy Mother's Day!

Disneyland

Inside Mickey's house

The "R" in California at California Adventure
Us with the Mad Hatter and Alice
Oh No! My family is in Jail!
My beautiful family

We had so much fun! All the kids acted very good. Hailey and Davin were great. I was a little worried about how they might handle the trip, and they handle it great. Matt had a good time which in my mind was so very important cause if he did not enjoy himself he might not be up for and excited about the next vacation. We are already planing out our next Disneyland trip. We also went and spent a few hours at Newport Beach. That was a fun also. The water was too cold to really go swimming but the weather was beautiful. The kids enjoyed running away from the waves as they chased them up the shore. Hailey was chasing around the birds. It was very amusing to watch her running down the beach trying to catch up to the birds. We tried to make a video of it but the batteries died before we could get it. Go figure. I was happy they lasted right up till the end. Now we are home and it's time to unpack! I do not like putting anything away. I'm thankful for our Trip. It was very needed and we had blast.

Autumn's Good day

Today has been such a great day for Autumn. First she went to Snow Canyon High School for field day. She ran in 2 races. The first one she came in first place then she had to run in the 2nd race which was finals. She came 2nd place. So she gets to go to district. She was so excited when she came home form school. She said "Mom, I got second place and I get to go run in District, plus I get to go to Cedar City...for free"! LOL! It was really cute.
Erin also did good, she ran 2 races as well. She came in 4th in one and 6th in the other. I'm proud of both of them, and really happy they both tryed so hard.

Also tonight Autumn and I went out to Launa's, my sister-in-laws house, she does the Dixie Children's Choir. Well Autumn tried out and after 3 pitch lesson's she turned to Autumn and said "your in". It was so cool. After the try out Launa and I were outside talking while Autumn played in the yard and she told me that Autumn has an amazing voice. And getting her in to singing so young is really going to be great for her.
Autumn has been on cloud 9 all day. It is nice to see my kids happy.

I need some help with this...

I've decided to enter Davin in a Baby contest.
I've narrowed it down to 4 photos. I would like your opinion. Thank you for your help.

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School Pictures

Erin 11 years old
Autumn 9 years old

I'm totally impressed with these pictures. I think they did a fabulous job. It doesn't hurt that I have beautiful girls either. :)

Big Ladder

Today we were driving out to my Mother-in-laws house and this is the conversation Hailey and I had,
Hailey: I need a big, big, big, big BIG ladder.
Me: Why?
Hailey: So I can get up to the clouds.
Me: You want to go up to the clouds? Why?
Hailey: Because they are fluffy and warm.

I just thought it was really cute and wanted to share.