Real Life put into song....

We found this little "ditty", and LOVED it. How true it is that even though our kids can drive our day/nights crazy, they are still our greatest JOYS! ENJOY!

Kids say the funninest things

This little moment today made me laugh, and so I thought I'd share. It was Nate's VIP Day today in his kindergarten class. Our whole family went and we told things about Nate to his class. At the end the class could ask questions to Nate when he called on them. He had answered all the usual questions - "What's your favorite color?" "What's your favorite food?" "What do you like to play with?" And then the last girl asked him what his favorite insect was? And Nate got a puzzled look on his face and said, "Hum.....that's a tricky one." It was the funniest thing! But then we all know that Nate usually says funny things. LOVE YOU NATE!

1,000+ Miles in Two Days!

What an exciting 2 days. We left Orem on Friday Morning about 9:30 am and headed south. Our first event of the trip was and close one at the last stop light out of Spanish Fork. I was leading and figured I should stop so as to not leave everyone else at the stop light. In the end Dustin just about rear ended me and ran the light anyway. I must have had the music up way to loud, because I missed the squeeling tires! We stopped in Green River just long enough to Dad and Dusting to eat the heart out of a watermelon, and I still don't like watermelon. They also got a cantelope to eat for breakfast the next morning. Next was Moab, were we stopped for lunch. It also marked the end of the trail as we knew it. From there on out we were kind of unfamiliar with the route. As we headed into Colorado, we passed through a number of little town that I couldn't even pronounce the names, so forget that I'd even remember them. Our last stop, for driving direction clarification, decided that I had enough gas to get to another town. When we got there it was just an intersection! NO GAS! I'd already hit empty and the gas light was on and the sign said another 22 miles to the next town. A quick addition of the miles came out to 195 miles on this tank of gas. I'd gotten 180 before, so I was hoping for a lot of down hill for the last bit. Luckily I made it all the way to Ridgeline, Co, with 1/2 a gallon left!

The drive between Ridgeline and Durango was some of the most breathtaking. We climbing, it seemed, almost straigt up the mountains. S-turns for what seemed like forever, and the leaves were turning, against blue sky and rugged mountains. It's really a shame I don't have any pictures to show for it. Dad isn't one for stopping much.

We pulled into Durango about 6 pm, to find th place completely booked up. No room at the Inn! So, we kept on keeping on and headed into the sunset towards Cortez. We passed through a little place called Mancos, about half an hour out of Durango, and stopped there.

The accompanying pictures document the second day of our trip a little better, visiting four corner and Mexican Hat before finding ourselfs following a great road into Hite, and the north end of Lake Powell. We stopped in Hanksville for Gas, and decided that Lunch @ Moms Cafe sounded better than lunch @ Stan's. About 20 minutes out of Hanksville we stopped to suit up for wet weather, and got rained on from there to Salina.

From Salina to home was just a constant drizzle, but much more bearable than the first leg of the rain. At this point I think some Rain Gear would be a wise investment.

It was a great time. I really want to go back and get some good picture of the pass, and take Nate to ride the Train in Durango.