So Here's The Thing...

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Isn't it grand

The Grand Canyon was amazing. The pictures really can't do it justice. I want to go back and see more and do more. Especially when the kids are older and we can hike a little more. Amazing!

It was also really fun to be with all my family and get to know my neices and nephews a little more. It was fun to help them all with little crafts.

The house we stayed at was fun for the kids with these porch swings.

These two were so cute. Not exactly playing together because they are much to young for that but certainly finding eachother interesting.

And this is actually the rest stop at Bluff Utah. Not sure how it ended up here and not on the previous post. Oh well!

We checked out a couple of parks in Flagstaff. This one was fun with the parent/child swing and the fire engine made of bars.

It was a fun couple of days.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Our big family vacation for the year was a trip to the Grand Canyon for a reunion with my family. We decided to lengthen our trip so we could take the driving a little slower. We drove to Grand Junction and visited Colorado National Monument. It was really cool. We did a picnic dinner there and wished we had more time for exploring. After being in the car the kids loved getting out into some dirt and climbing trees.

It really was beautiful and was such a good time of night to be there. I love these pictures of my boys looking at the ants and finding sticks with scenic canyon and rocks in the background.

Ben was resisting photos with Dad and Mom...so there you go.

I also love this picture of Jacob putting Nora's shoe on. She is obsessed with shoes and loves taking them off and having us put them back on. Shoe is on of the few words that we can recognize.

And then the next day was a longer driving day as we made our way through Utah and to Flagstaff. We stopped at some cool rest stops though. I have a picture of the nice pioneer rest stop in Bluff, Ut somewhere....hmmm.

After Bluff it was all pretty boring until entering Flagstaff...so more to come later.

Words of Wisdom

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

-Marjorie Hinckley

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

-Logan Pearsall Smith

"Sometimes we fill our lives with hobbies or pursuits that produce more immediate rewards. If we aren't careful, we start to resent our children and see them as obstructions to the things that bring us real pleasure. The key is to discover pleasure in our children--to make them central, to genuinely value them during the relatively short time that they are in our home. The day will come that you will be free to spend whole days any way you want-- you can travel, go to school, or go in your room and shut the door. But today, you are a mother."
-Jane (from blog Asking Jane)

"Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God and that yours is a custodial relationship to them, that He was a parent before you were parents and that He has not relinquished His parental rights or interest in these little ones."
-President Gordon B. Hinckley

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
-Thomas Carlyle

So Here's The Thing...

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Isn't it grand

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Heading to Arizona

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