Vegas Baby!

So this was quite possibly the most random trip ever. But fun bonding time with my sisters and mom. It all started with Sarah's 16th bday. She wanted to do a spa day with the girls. Then it turned into a weekend at a hotel with the spa and all that. Then the weekend kept having to be rescheduled because it is impossible to get all our schedules to work together. So then we picked the date and said we would not change it for any reason. Well...my mom got this cool new job as a consultant for several companies as a director of operations. Well one of the companies needed her in Vegas for a big convention on the weekend we had picked. So instead of rescheduling we decided to go to Vegas. Crazy huh? So here are some pics from the trip. We drove to Vegas all 11 hours. Shanna has morning sickness which really should be called all day sickness. But she was a trooper.

Happy Fourth of July!

Jeremy and I spontaneously decided to go camping with my family for the fourth of July. We drove up to my parents house on Thursday and met up with everyone. We got off to a late start because we went after everyone got off of work. We drove to Fort Collins and went to the Poudre Canyon. After a long drive we got to Chambers Lake campground, but it was full. We went to campground after campground but each of them were full. It was about 10pm by the time we actually go to an open campsite in the middle of no where! We had to have been getting close to Wyoming by the time we stopped. We set up the tents and stuff, had a campfire, and crashed for the night. Eva was such a good little camper!! And Matty came up for a night before he left for Steamboat to see his new roomies.



The next day we went fishing at Lost lake. And Eva caught her first fish!! She was adorable in her little poncho.

It rained on us quite a bit, Oscar-the camp dog, was shivering and wet, Eva was wet too so we wrapped up in a blanket and snuggled.

We had so much fun fishing! Everyone caught their limit!!

Here's the picture of the big catch!

On our way back to our campsite Dad spotted a Moose! Its a female moose chillen in the wilderness. She just sat there and stared at us, it was so cool!

Eva tried her first SMORE. She didn't like it one bit. She got all sticky from the marshmellows too and decided that she didn't like roasted marshmallows either. Just "little big ones" that weren't cooked. She is the cutest!! And she loves her Uncle Jeremy.

Grammy and Pop pop are the best baby sitters!!






Shanna was such a trooper! Prego and camping with a 2 year old!! David made a really cool "story" stick that he whittled.

We had a great time camping! Gotta love Colorado!

Grand Canyon and Phoenix

Jeremy had a conference for personal trainers in fire fighting, through the Phoenix fire department, that his work sent him to for training. Since his work was sending him down for a few days I decided to tag along. We added a few extra days onto our trip and went camping in the Grand Canyon. Here are some pictures from our trip...

We flew into Phoenix in the morning and then drove 4 hours to the Grand Canyon. We had to stop for supplies and food so it took us awhile to get there. By the time we got in all the campsites were full. So we took the rental car...a hillarious little HHR off roading into national forest to camp the first night. It was a new experience for me, total desert, lots of bugs and lizards, and totally bare bones camping.





We drove back in to the Grand Canyon after we got camp set up to see the sun set. The pictures are hazy because the whole time we were there they were doing controlled burns. So there is some smoke settling in the canyon.







The next day we went for an 8 mile hike down into the canyon. It was a pretty hike but we kept getting these random rain showers on our way in. We wanted to get to the bottom but it was a pretty long way. We got about 3/4 of the way to the bottom, saw the river, and headed out. It really is breathtaking there.

We took SO many pictures of the canyon I just put a few up.

We got a campsite in the Grand Canyon the second day. Here it is.


Last sunset and smores night! The next day we went to Phoenix. I am smiling because I finally get to take a SHOWER!! YIPPIE!!

Jeremy went to his conference and got a ton of great info for the fitness/health program he is in charge of for work. He is totally pumped to get to work on it! I hung out by the pool and worked on my homework. This last weekend I finished my last class for my masters program!!!! I am just working on my Practicum now. Almost finished!

We also got to go to a Diamondbacks game while we were there.

It was a pretty fun trip!