Hawaii 2010

Papakea!!! Another great vacation. This is the view from our Lania. We walk the beach every morning and go to sleep listening to the waves roll in. It is like heaven.
We had a great time with Cooper and Casey and Luke!
Kevin and Joylene Quick, Luke and Casey and Josiah and Melanie and Dave and I all had a great time at big beach!
Cheeeburgers in Paradise is my favorite place to eat. Live music, great food, and fabulous company, listening to the ocean and watching the sunset....what could be better?
Tyler Millward and his wife Carri live here and they came to see us a few times. Nora is a a doll!
We went on a snorkel trip to Molokini on a boat. We swam with Turtles and saw lots of cool fish. Josiah wnet crazy with his underwater camera!!
I think Luke had fun even though it was way out of his comfort zone!
Putting at the condo...by the way I think I won!
Cooper got to get into the ocean with his grandma and was even liking it until his dad came to rescue him. I think Luke was afraid I would let go. Cooper was pretty scared of the ocean at first but he loved the sand.
Balancing on a long board....I didn' post the picture of Luke for reasons I won't mention here. Casey and I and Josiah all "walked on water". It was great fun!
Dave and I took a bike tour to Haleakala....the Crater. We left at 2:30 in the morning and drove up to 10,700 feet. The sinrise was beautiful but it was COLD! Then we rode a bike down the hill.
It has been great and now we are ready for the next big adventure that awaits us at home. Chelsey and Brett Wedding...here we come! Life doesn't get any better than this!

Chelsey 's Birthday

That is alot of candles!!!
Grandma and Grandpa stopped by to see Chelsey for her birthday.
Chelsey opened presents on the deck with Brett.

Jackson Family Reunion 2010

Cooper at his first Jackson reunion! He doesn't know which Jackson yet.
The kids entertained themselves all day in the sand.
Who needs a boat????
Delaney likes to put shoes on her hands to crawl with. She still won't walk but loves shoes!
Casey and Cooper at the lake.

We played the see food game and Dave got an onion to eat.....it was pretty funny.
We rented a house 20 minutes from Bear Lake in Ovid. There were encough beds for everyone and we didn't have to set up tents or cook over the fire.

Chelsey lead the nieces and nephews in a rendition of Proud Mary. Chelsey made a great Tina Turner.
Rachelle getting Jenika ready for the beach. We spent the whole day at Bear Lake in the water. The kids built a sand swimming pool, Josiah built a turtle, and Luke got sun burned. We played football in the water and everyone got tackled and dunked except Dave who wouldn't take out his hearing aids. (Who would have thought hearing aids could be a form of protection!)

Bryson, Jackson, and Russell were tutored by Grandpa Dave.
Whit and Griff
We are not sure what Rachelle is doing!!
Delaney was busy packing to go to the caves.
This is what Dave looked like for much of the trip. He was readding "Driven" by Larry Miller.
We went to the Minatonka Caves.

2010 Cousin Camp

We had a great two days! We painted shirts, had races, played duck duck goose, had a scavenger hunt, went to the movie (How to Train a Dragon), roasted marshmallows, slept in the tent and went to Lava. All together and loving it!
What would we do without Aunt Chelsey!
Bubbles!!!
Jackson in the lead of the Gunny Sack race!
Ready Set Go!!!Bryson
Russell
Josi
Jessica
Jackson
Cutler
Jenika
Sierra
Josi soaking up the sun at Lava
Cutler just hanging out
The painted shirts....what artists! Everyone had a great time and went home worn out!

Two weeks ago Chelsey, Susan B., Nicole C., and I went to Zions National Park and hiked the Narrows. It was on my bucket list so now I can check that off. It was amazing! It took us 11 1/2 hours. I was so sore and tired that night I wasn't sure how I would walk the next day but I survived. The Narrows is a 16 mile hike down the Virgin River. There are sections where the danger of a Flash Flood could be fatal so I had just a bit of anxiety going in. There is a stretch called "Wall Street" that is a mile and a half long that is nothing but 1000 foot walls on both sides of you and in spots was no wider than about 20 feet. It sprinkled on us and thundered just as we were begining "The point of no return" or Wall Street. We all looked at Nicole (who was our expert) and questioned the decision to go ahead but we all trusted her when she said she thought we would be fine. That is when Chelsey kicked in gear and we all tried to keep up with her. We did stop for some pictures with Nicole's camera that are awesome. I will try to get those up here some day. We had to put everthing in ziplock bags, including and especially the cameras so they wouldn't get wet. There were spots where we were up to our chest in water walking down the river and there was even a stretch about 20 feet that we had to swim. It was really an adventure.

The first water crossing of 124 from 7:30 untill noon. After that we lost track.


Whitney.....we'll never look as good as you but we will keep trying!

We thought we had to jump down the waterfall but we took the path of least resistance to the right!


Don't let the smiles fool you!!! I was so tired and sore at this point but very glad to make it out alive!!!!It was one of the best hikes I have ever been on and I loved it....thanks Nicole!!