Great Weekend with Family

We had a wonderful weekend this past weekend. Brett and Annie are in town and we always have wonderful time with them and all of our family that that we get a chance to spend time with. I took Friday off so it was extra special.

I took Friday off work and Sue and I took Brett and Annie to a really cool kick butt 5.5 mile hike that took about 5 hours to complete. This was basically off trail, semi back country hiking in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. We trekked across scrub filled desert, climbed rocks, explored mini caves, picked up our geocache, and generally had a very fun day that was definitely invigorating. For a couple of middle aged "fogeys in training" we can still get out and move our butts and challenge our minds and bodies pretty good and don't embarrass ourselves around the younger fit relatives...at least hey make us feel good anyway :) We were rewarded with a really cool isolated overlook into a hidden canyon that was well worth the effort. Sorry I forgot my camera...thanks Annie I stole a couple of your shots. Kari, Will, and the kids joined all of us for a a lasagna dinner and then an action packed game of Trivial Pursuit...90's edition....it was such an exciting game....NOT...who in the heck picked that game anyway :)

After getting a very good night's sleep, Annie, Brett, and Kari went skiing on Saturday morning. Sue and I decided to spend most of the day with Jimmy, Hollie, Gracie, and Preston searching the Ivins area for Petroglyphs as they had never seen them before. We enjoyed the moderate hike to the Petroglyph site and everyone enjoyed climbing around this huge boulders that have all of these 1100 yr. old Petroglyphs form the Anasazi Indians that lived in Southern Utah so long ago. We love taking family and friends to this site and never seem to get bored or tired of going there. The kids were great and really enjoyed the fun. We briefly took them to the Art Village at Kayenta, where they had never been before which is an upscale art village in a very upscale desert subdivision (it really was a potty break are for all of us though). After our brief pause for a very good cause, we decided to head over to Pier 49 Pizza which specializes in pizza made with sourdough crust. It has some really good and slightly different pizza. Sue and I really enjoyed our time with the kids as we don't see them as often as we would like too. I think Jimmy and Hollie enjoyed themselves too.

Sunday was typically busy as church and as always...a great day. We visited Kari & Will for dinner and Kari put on quite the spread. Thai curry chicken, salad, and a sweet coconut rice and fruit dessert. Mmmmmmmmmm GREAT STUFF! After dinner we need to relax a bit so Sue and I took our cue from Brett and joined the kids on their trampoline. Sue was obviously an old pro at this. I thought what better time than now to overcome my fear of "breakmybuttaphobia" ....I think the condition is pretty self explanatory. While I'm not sure that I got any air between my feet and the trampoline, I just may be ready for a few forward or backward rolls the next time I get on. It really is amazing that I didn't take out any of the kids and do them any great bodily harm. Thanks Kari for the photos, we stole them form you too....great fun....seriously!

We really did have a fantastic weekend and it doesn't get any better than that for us....unless of course Sue and I are sitting on a secluded beach in Hawaii watching the waves gently role in, sipping some virgin island drink, with our Lotus parked behind us....sorry kids...we love you but it's hard to compete with that one :)

Love to all!

 Brett trying to act like a rock climber

Brett and Annie finding our geocache!















Jimmy & Hollie posing with our ancient history

Hollie & Preston high above the Santa Clara River

The Salleys and Grandma Sue














Great Family Photo                                                       

Grandma & Grandpa taking one for the team!

Ok...that was fun, now PUHLEEEAAASE let us out....NOW! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!  :)