Antelope Canyon

Antelope Canyon is a "slot canyon" just big enough for people to fit through. The red sandstone is beautiful and the canyon is owned by the Navojo tribe. My mom happened to score a discount to get in because she works with some of the tribe members. I had no idea how awesome it would be.

You just disapear into a crack, and here is where it begins.




After Antelope Canyon we went to the Glen Canyon Dam to see our next destination. There was a neat view of Lake Powell. From here we could see the Colorado river and the tiny little rafts from up above. We were so excited about our next day of rafting.

Camping Diamond Fork

We had so much fun camping at Diamond Fork. We haved planned this trip for a year with our friends Brian and Kristi and Ty's brother Skip. We had 11 kids total and 5 adults. The kids got along so great we almost didn't know they were around. Brian and Kristi's kids are Savannah, Judd, Gabe, Shelby and the other little one is Cameron who belongs to Skip. Wyatt is missing in this photo.

We had such a great spot with a small stream running nearby and lots of trails for the kids to explore. The kids discovered a large snake in a tree next to a birds nest and birds were trying to attack it to keep it out of the nest.One of the highlights of our trip was when Skip brought his paintball gun and Ty and Skip stood up on the hill and let me shoot at them. I had mixed feelings about this because I knew I would feel bad if I hit them and I didn't think they would ever let me live this down. But they were egging me on to hit them, I was laughing so hard I thought I would pee my pants. After a few shots and unsuccessful I handed the gun over to Kristi to let her shoot at them. She got them, and they have a few welts to show for it. Crazy guys. It was good entertainment.

Skip brought his target for his bow and arrow. Titan was not too happy about the foam creature being in our camp.

Our new niece

We were able to go to our niece's baby blessing. We haven't had a new baby girl born in our families since Sadie. We are lucky to have Kennedy in our family.We were lucky to get to have our cousins Peyton, Mkaul, and Britt come in from Arizona. We have missed them.

Girlies

Sadie and Aubrie did so well at their dance recital. Grandparents and Aunt Tamsen and Uncle Jason made it to see them as well.

Dance Recital

We just got back after a long dance rehersal, tomorrow is the big day for the recital. Here are the cute pictures of them with their teams.

Last Day of School!

Sadie & Halen had a fun year in Mrs. Hales and Mrs. Brindleys class this year. They were lucky to have had two great teachers. The year went by so fast and they are off to 3rd grade next year.

Aubrie loved her teacher Mrs. Perkins. I can't believe she is going on to 5th grade next year.

Favorite Food from Kauai

We never realized that the hot dog stand that was recommended to us by some locals we met on the beach would turn out to be one of the best meals we had during our trip.These hotdogs are called Puka Dogs. (Named one of the top ten on the Travel channel by Anothony Bourdain) They are so yummy, they are polish sausage and homemade buns filled with a Hawaiin mustard called lilikoi and a garlic lemon sauce. You then get to pick your flavor of relish, they had mango, pineapple, papaya, coconut and banana. The relish really was amazing it was made from fresh fruit made at the hotdog stand. I tried the pineapple and Ty had the cocounut relish, yum!!



Some of the other yummy foods were Mai Mai fresh fish and cocunut shrimp. We also loved the coconut syrup on french toast for breakfast and cheese cake made with coconut milk topped with passion fruit. Pretty much everywhere we went we had really good food at a suprising good price. I am missing Kauai. Can't imagine why!