Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The GRAND Canyon!

Rebecca and I just returned from an awesome trip with my parents to the Grand Canyon. I took tons of pictures for all my good friends who have never been there, so here are a few! Rebecca in her ranger hat that her Papa bought for her.





Rebecca loved to pull on my poor dad's ears every time she was in the backpack. It was actually kind of funny (to my mom and I)



Here we are at Slide Rock National Park. It was a really cool place, it is a natural waterslide, pretty shallow and people just slide through the water over the rocks. The rocks are red and really smooth. It looked like lots of fun!

So many cool red rock formations everywhere we went. I think Arizona is a really beautiful state.
We went to a town called Sedona one day, and it is such a scenic place. I wish I would have gotten some better pictures of it. Rebecca was just so cute this day I had to snap some pictures while she was checking out the menu. While we were in this town, a lady stopped to tell Rebecca that she is the prettiest thing she'd seen all day! What a compliment, considering the beautiful scenery there. Rebecca is a darling baby and she was sooooo good on this trip. We did so much driving around, and I was so proud of her. She did much better than I thought she would.

Beautiful Sedona
My Dad and I at some volcanic mountains

The Waputki National Monument! This place was really cool, it is the ruins of some Indian tribe out in the middle of nowhere. Crazy to think people actually lived here.

The weather was so nice the whole trip too. It was so nice to have jacket weather and be away from frozen Idaho for a week!
Our bathtub at home is....let's just say it's not normal. So Rebecca gets showers at home and baths are a treat when she visits Grandparents. So on this vacation she took plenty of baths and on this night I let her go "swimming" in the spa. She loves to splash around, and she was so happy in there. We just watched her for so long, which probably sounds silly, but she has had so few baths in her life that it's like a new experience for her, so it is really cute. Isn't that sad! We need a new tub for sure. Someday!
Here is the house we stayed in, it was awesome! This is the way to vacation! It was so nice to have a nice place to sleep and play games and watch movies and cook. Just perfect.


On the way home we stopped at the Glen Canyon Dam by Lake Powell. It was pretty cool!

Thanks for the fun trip mom and dad! We had a great time. Seth had finals that week, so we missed him. It is good to be back home, even though it is snowing today, grrrr.























3 comments:

Darla and Kirk Nuttall said...

Okay there is so much to comment about. The pictures of the Grand Canyon were beautiful. I would love to go again someday. Rebecca looked so cute in all the pictures, her hair was alway picture perfect.:) The cabin you stayed, holy cow nice. I am glad your back though. I loved having my dad watch Calista when you were gone, but she kept asking for Rebecca all week. It was so sad to tell her that she wasn't going to play with her that week.
I am so glad that you went and had a good time with your parents.

Sarah Coyne said...

Wow! This is quite the trip! The scenery is SO beautiful and it looks like you guys had such a fun time. I've never been to the Grand Canyon and seeing these pictures have made me resolved to go some day!

jenhatch said...

what a fun trip and so great to spend that time with your parents. Isn't it the funnest to see your kid with your parents? I love it!!! Glad Rebecca got to get some tub time!!