Baseball season

yep, more sport pictures. here's the youngest running for first after a mighty bunt from the tee. ...bringin' it home for a point...

...fielding the ball...

...and the throw. oops. check out the kid's face in front of him. HE'S OUT!!

SOCCER TIME

Here we are, blasting the ball back into the game. So much easier from out of bounds. "Mom, these kids are all driving me crazy and getting in the way!" Action shot:

VBALL

Maddy had a great volleyball season. She learned a ton and showed some serious skills in her last game!

Little Wild Horse

Right after Goblin Valley we hit Little Wild Horse Canyon, an amazing slot canyon near Goblin Valley. We had so much fun, it was perfect weather. The kids were like little spiders, up and down the cliffs and walls. David especially had a good time picking the highest route through the canyon. Despite roughly 11 pee breaks from Dylan (whose camelpak was leaking, which we didn't know until later, he just kept the nozzle in his mouth the whole time), we spent about 3 hours in the Canyon.

Goblin Valley

Saturday morning we drove over to Goblin Valley. I had never been there, and just like it says below, it is like nowhere else. It was marvelous!! I can't help but thinking that it won't be as accessible as it is now for long. I remember Mike's brother telling us how right after high school when he went to Giza the students were climbing up and down the face of the pyramids, more or less doing what they wanted. That's how it was here. Some ignorant teenager knocked the head off of one of the 'goblins' while we were there. The echo of the enormous boulder, loosed from its resting place of thousands of years, crashed through the entire valley. I don't think he did it on purpose, but still. They take thousands of years to form and minutes to destroy. We had a great time down in the goblin valley.

MOAB, MOAB, MOAB

We headed down to Moab to camp for Spring Break this year. We got really lucky for quite a few reasons...We had a great bunch down there--the Bakers from our ward went with, and Aunt Cathryn and 2 of the cousins. We happened to catch the BLM office just a few minutes after someone canceled their reservation on the one of the better campsites in the area (Big Bend campsite C), so we had and AWESOME spot. AND we had fantastic weather. The first day little Dylan wasn't so lucky. He accidently touched a cactus on purpose. Again luckily, Aunt Cathryn morphed into her work persona, "Nurse Cathy" and got us all taken care of. We had a blast!!


Happy again...

Dress Ups

The next weekend after our trip to Arizona, the arizona cousins came up for Grant (Alan's boy)'s baptism. They stayed with us and had fun dressing up.