Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Great trip back to Colorado!*!

Sorry our trip is backwards. So this was the last place before it got dark on us. It was about 4:00 p.m. This is called hanging lake. It is in Glenwood Springs Canyon.
These are the sides of the mountains and thelake was down in between them.


This is a hiking trail you could take. Some hikers were just coming out. They said it would take about an hour to get up to another lake. We wished we had arrived a little earlier

I asked the boys if they wanted to swim!


This is the highway going through Glenwood Springs Canyon. We are down on the lower rode. So I am taking the picture looking up. Its quite the stretch of highway.





Here is another view. Not so good, reflection of the glass from the car. Not alot of places to stop unless you take an exit.


This is continuing on East of Grand Junction, Colorado. They have some very interesting mountains.

More scenry going East of Grand Junction, Colorado

A little more!

This is the Colorado River that follows I-70 just East of Colorado clear to Eagle, Colorado.


Photos from the car are hard to take, but tried to get more of the river.

This is the San Rafel Swell. It wasn't a very warm day, but not too bad.

More of the San Rafel Swell

Quite the road going down through the swell.

This is a place called Ghost rock. It located about 30 miles before Green River, Utah.



Austin climbing up the rock. He was having a great time!*!

Austin was the first to find the way up the rock. He thought he was pretty smart.

This was their first attempt up the rock. They found an easier way up.

Deciding how they are going to climb up the rock. Typically boys right!*!*!
I said I will watch and take good pictures.

This was a place called Devils Canyon

That little speck in the middle of the picture is Brayden he is following his dad. They are headed at to the end of the peak.

Daniel, Austin and Brayden, my three boys. They were ready to get out and do some exploring. So that is what we did here. They had a great time.

This went quite a ways down. It was a unqiue canyon.

This is some of Utah scenry. We are almost to Green River.
We have taken this trip alot over the past 13 months, but haven't really taken the time to stop at alot of places. There is alot to see. You almost need to break it up into a couple of days, but we thought we may not be coming home this way, we probably will come home through Wyoming, so its not so hard on the vehicles pulling loaded trailers. I-70 is a beautiful ride. You go through quite a few tunnels, but it was getting too dark to take pictures of these. The Eisenhower Tunnel is the boys favorite, it is over a mile long. This is the Continental Divide. Well we just thought we share a little bit of what we have traveled over the past 13 months.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Christmas Fun!*!

Going to get our Christmas Tree. We love to do this every year!

We had our friend Daniel with us and he wanted to ride horses, so we took horses. It was a great time!


Austin and Amber having a wonderful time

Brayden and Gibson enjoying the horse ride. Gibson loves the horses. I am sure his Dad has something to do with that.


Amber picking out our tree. She did a good job. Now to take them home and do the decorating. What a wonderful time of the year. Christmas is probably one of our favorite. We enjoy anytime we can be together as a family. This Christmas will be great because we get to come home to Fillmore for a little while. Like I told Brayden, we are home until our dad takes us on our next adventure!





Sunday, November 1, 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!*!*!

Brayden and Austin ready to go to the ward party!
Austin as a mighty body guard
Brayden has a great army man. Did you think he would be anything else?


Some of the primary children at the ward party



Some more primary children and ward members dressed up.
It was a good time. We had a good turn out. There was plenty of chili and the kids got plenty of candy.





Thursday, October 29, 2009

More Winter FUN

This is the front of our house
This is snow drifts in the back. Look at the snow hanging off the roof

Austin making his great snow angel


We have a pine tree out front they built them huts. This was school today. Adventure 101 in the snow. They had an awesome time!



This is Brayden in his fort. He is hidden pretty good!
Its been a cold and windy day. I guess schools have not been closed like this since 2006.





The Big Winter Storm

Pretty snow! Its definitely a winter wonderland.
Austin enjoying the snow!

This is a snow drift against our fence.



This is the snow up against our sliding glass door. Crazy huh!


Austin laying down and playing in the snow. Brayden has been sick so I wouldn't let him play out and he was not happy. They didn't have school yesterday and they don't today. Braydens feeling better today so I let him go out today, so they are both playing in it right now!

















Fall Fun

This is Bevan. With his coat on you would think it was cold. It was kindof cold, the sun was just starting to go down and so it did get a little bit chilly.
Last weekend for adventure we went back over to horsetooth reservior and hiked around
Its alot different view than on a boat.


Brayden is enjoying the sand. He loves to play. They took their army men and army stuff and they had a war with sand.



Austin setting up his army men and helicopter. They had a good time!



This is beautiful horsetooth reservoir. It is a gorgeous lake.



While we were in Utah in September we rode up the canyon and enjoyed the beautiful autumn leaves. It was so fun to be with family and doing what we enjoy being in the outdoors.


Grandpa and Grandma Johnson enjoying the autumn leaves



Bevan, Amber and Austin having a fun time


Jacie, of course loving it all!



Austin and Brayden up in the mountains in Utah


Beautiful fall scenry!