Road Trip 2016

 Jim and I felt it was time to venture out with another road trip.  This time we headed out to Yosemite and San Fransisco.  It was an awesome amazing trip.  I kept thinking how nice it was to have just our little family for 10 days.  Here is a little snippet of our adventures from July 1st to the 10th.  Yes, Lizzie did get home from Girl's Camp on July 1st also.  She was home probably a total of 4 hours before we were off again.


Day 1- We left our house around 5ish and traveled about 3 hours to Angel Lake Nevada

Day 2- Driving day and then a KOA campground.  The views were gorgeous.  Not sure why I didn't take too many pictures.  For some reason I only took like 2 pictures.

Day 3- We were able to camp in Yosemite and explore Yosemite. Wow!  Absolutely gorgeous. 

Day 4- More gorgeous beauty at Yosemite.  A couple wrong travel decisions, a intimidating drive in the dark around a curvy mountain and a much welcomed stay at a hotel at 1:30 in the morning.

Lilly in front of El Capitan

A beautiful room number when you get to it at 1:30 in the morning :)

Day 5- The kids wanted the beach and we gave them a pretty good one.  Point Reyes was so gorgeous and the waves were crazy and loud!

Every morning at our campground the girls would do what they called Olympics.

  They even made up routines and would perform for us.

Day 6- Brought us adventures at some of San Fransisco's tourist spots.  We visited the Golden
Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, Pier 39 and Ghirardelli's. 

Day 7- More San Fransisco fun.  Chinatown, Alcatraz Island, eating seafood at the Bubba Gump restaurant and the Golden Gate Bridge at night.

Day 8- Muir Woods.  Such a pretty pathway among the giants of the forest

More Olympic routines

Day 9- Driving from the luscious greenery of Northern California to the desert of Nevada.

Day 10- HOME!

Our house for 8 of the last 9 nights

The parents on the last day- proud that we did it!!!

It was an amazing trip and one that I am so glad we decided to do.

YW camp

Lizzie left for her first Girls Camp the morning of  Tuesday June 28th and came back Friday July 1st. 

She said she had a great time. Every once in a while she will give us a little snippet of life at camp (pure Lizzie). 

Here are some pictures her nice leaders sent me.

All of the beehives and one leader

Annie, Sarah, Allie, Madison, Kyra (leader)
Rossi, Brecken, Lizzie, Paige, Laci, Sophie

All the Young Women from our ward. 

We are so lucky to have such a big group of cute girls!!!

June 2016

Jim Weekend

We went up to the Uinta's for a couple nights

to celebrate Jim weekend. 

Camping, fishing and hanging out

together were on the agenda.

Happy Jim Weekend!

Manti Pageant/ Palisades

We just got back from a very fun adventure with some of our favorite friends (The Sierer Family). 

We went down and saw the Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti.  Then the next day we spent the whole day at

Palisades canoeing, paddle boarding, hanging out on paddle boats and basically enjoying a perfect summer day!!!

The beginning of our adventures..... Walking to go get dinner

The famous BBQ Turkey Dinner. 

We kept ourselves busy waiting for the pageant to start by playing Disney HeadBanz

Such good kids!

Jaren, Colin and Ethan

Us with some of our favorite friends- Ted and Stacey

Palisades-

Our group with all 3 things we rented in one shot :)

Pure 8 year old happiness

I even tried out the paddle board. 

Very relaxing and easier than I thought.

Perfect summer day full of water, fun things to do, sun, good food and friends!