ATV'S

Sunday June 8th
ATV ride
We took the boys on a ATV tour ride. We were the only one's in the group. Dave had Ryan ride with him, I had Michael and Aron and Marcus rode their own. We had the best tour guide. He was so nice and entertaining. At one point he took Michael with him and taught him how to drive the ATV and then Ryan. It was a slow going ride because I rode 2nd behind the tour guide. We rode for 2 hrs. Because boys are boys and they like to go fast at the end of the ride we had to drive down this dirt road that was a mile long. The instuctor sent Dave & I back to the van and he let Aron & Marcus drive way to fast for me to watch down that dirt road. It was a blast. Any guesses what the boys want for Christmas this year? Yeah right!!!

Marcus
Ryan
Aron
Michael
Me, Marcus, Ryan, Michael, Aron & our tour guide.

More Bryce Canyon Pictures

Bryce Canyon National Park

We left Zion National Park and drove to Bryce Canyon National Park. We Checked into Bryce Canyon Resort, had dinner and went to visit Bryce Canyon. This is by far my favorite park. The pictures do not do it justice. I can not explain the beauty of this place.

Utah

Saturday June 7th
Zion National Park

We spent most the day here at Zion National Park. We did a lot of walking. The mountains were just amazing. HUGE. We hiked up to Weeping Rock. Michael met a squirell and named him Skittles. I took so many pictures that I am only able to pick out a few and post them.

Welcome to Utah
The Three Apostles.
The boys'
Michael all wet up at Weeping Rock. It was a hot day so the cool water felt nice.
"Skittles" the squirel

See the BIG picture

Okay before I start this you need to know that if you want to see the picture close up all you have to do is click on the picture. Okay with that said off I go.

Las Vegas, Nevada

So I added two pictures and they ended up here. I can't figure out how to get them to the bottom so I'm going to have to leave it like this. It's driving me nuts because it's not how I want them but oh well.

This is a picture of all the kids September of 2006. I didn't get one of all of them this time.
L to R in the back: Marcus, Cassie, Junior, Aron & Danisha
L to R in front: Michael, Makayla & Ryan

Aron, Marcus, Uncle Gary, Aunt Mel, Michael, Ryan & Dave

We wanted to leave early Friday morning but that didn't happen. We left our house at 11:00am. On the road to our first stop in Las Vegas, NV. We spent one night with Dave's Aunt and Uncle. His cousin owns a knife shop so we stopped there to visit. We all drove to their house to put their dogs in the crate before we al went to CiCi's Pizza Buffett. While we were at the house the kids all wanted to ride with each other so Norma took Aron, and Michael and three of her kids, while we took Marcus, Ryan and one of their sons. We set the alarm and shut the door got in the car and started to back out when Marcus asks "Where's Michael?" We pull back in, I get out and tap on Norma's window and ask her if she has Michael. Nope she doesn't. Then we start to walk to the door when Michael walks out of the house. Can you believe that we almost left him there. He was in the bathroom. He said he walks out of the bathroom and it's all quite and the lights are off and he say's "Hello....."

We then went to pizza where we met his Aunt & Uncle. So it was us (6) Gary & Norma and their five kids. Aron and one of their girls Cassie decided to see who could eat the most pizza. They are nuts and I could not believe the amount of pizza that they ate. Aron won with eating 15 pieces and Cassie ate 13.

We left the pizza place and went back to the house where the kids played and the adults played a card game called Golf.

Welcome to Las Vegas, NV

Marcus & Collin

Aron trying to get out of Colins car.

Michael & Makayla

Our Family Vacation 2008 June 6th thru June 23rd

This summer we took a 17day vacation. 7 national parks 4500 miles and we all lived through it! Sit back and enjoy my post of what we did. I know we have been home for a month now and if I don't do this now I'm going to forget all that we did.