playground fun!

Molly is getting so big! I can’t believe that she will be 3 months old on Nov. 1!She definitely has all of her brothers wrapped around her little finger, but Greg is probably the worst! 🙂 The kids like to hike, so one afternoon we took the little ones on a bitty quarter-mile hike that […]

Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona

On Monday (Nov. 16), Vaughn took the boys to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. (We girls went shopping – an entire day looking at airplanes just wasn’t our thing!) The guys had a ball, and ended up spending 7 hours there! There were over 275 planes on site, both outside and […]

Learning about cactus in Arizona

We find it so intriguing how all of the plant-life around here has spikes! Everything in the desert is pokey or it would have been eaten by the different animals that inhabit this area. I don’t think this shrub has any worries!!! There are many different kinds of cactus; these are the ones that we […]

Lost Dutchman State Park, AZ

After leaving the Grand Canyon, we headed south wanting to get much closer to Phoenix, where Vaughn has family that we wanted to visit. -and it was getting cold up at the GC! The scenery on the way down was pretty (for a desert area – the desert is really growing on me!), but the […]

Grand Canyon National Park

On Sunday, we drove to the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. I have seen pictures of the Grand Canyon, but photos simply cannot relay the massiveness of this area! (yeah, I know- massiveness probably isn’t a real word…) I didn’t even take very many pictures while we were there because I knew that they […]

Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, UT

Sat. we left Zion National Park. We ended up going back out the way that we had come into the park since we didn’t want to pull the hill and go through the tunnel with the trailer. It would have been about a fifth of the distance had we gone through the tunnel, but we […]

Zion National Park

On Thursday, we drove to Zion National Park, Utah. It was a very pretty and short drive from Snow Gorge. There is usually $25 for entrance into the park, but we had purchased a National Parks Pass when we were at Fort Clatsop in Oregon, so we didn’t have to pay entrance fees into Zion. […]

Snow Canyon State Park, UT

After leaving Cathedral Gorge, we crossed into Utah on Tuesday morning. We had chosen our next stop to be Snow Canyon State Park near St. George, UT. The scenery down here is much different than in MT – it is so dry that there is little vegetation, and there are lots of huge rock formations, […]

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV

We arrived at Cathedral Gorge State Park in eastern Nevada at about 6 Sunday night. What a neat place! We really only stopped there because it was a convenient place to camp on our way to Arizona or Utah (we really don’t plan much more than a day in advance since we always end up […]

crossing NV

We ended up driving for about 9 hours on Nov. first. It seemed as if there was one huge empty valley after another for miles and miles – Oh! Golly, that is because there were! Anyone who believes that the earth is overpopulated has never visited Nevada!!! We ended up pulling off of the side […]