Day 2 of our Vaca

So it's been a little longer than a day since I've posted, but I found time today! ; ) So the first place we went was to the Manituo Cliff Dwellings. It's a remake of Mesa Verde cliff dwellings that you can go walk around through. It was neat to see and read about the history there.

This next photo we found these in a gift shop and thought they were funny!

The next place we went to was called the Cave of the Winds. We took tons of pics but hardly any of them turned out as well as they looked like in real life.
This next picture is what they call cave coral becuase it looks like under water coral. I think it's pretty!

Close to the top of the picture is what they call cave bacon. Do you see it?!?
This one was a column and then the floor shifted and the column broke.
The next place we went to was a cute little town called Manituo Springs. They had the best custard there yummo!


This bike was ginormous!!! I had the hardest time reaching the handlebars on that thing! This bike was just sitting on the sidewalk just begging for a photo! The last place we went to was called Seven Falls. It was beautiful!





This shows what a hike it was to get up there. I think there was at least 300 steps!!! Well I covered almost everything that we did our first full day in Springs.

Day 1 of our Vaca!

Well we finally were able to go somewhere this summer! We took a billion and one pictures so I'm going to just post 1 day at a time so this post isn't decades long! We decided to go to Colorado Springs on vaca. We drove for ages through Wyoming and saw a whole lotta nothing. We got to Colorado Springs on our anniversary about 7:00. We checked into our hotel and then went out to eat at Carrabbas. We got a free appetizer there which was a bonus! We stayed at a resort that had a private lake and beach, tennis courts, pool tables, and swimming pools.



So reallly we didn't have much time to do stuff our first day so I'll get to the fun stuff we did tomorrow!

Our Patio is finally finished!!

Well, we tried to have Dalyce tell us how to put that slide show up right and I guess we got half of it right! We have really enjoyed our patio so far! It's nice to have it done and not have to look at all the weeds. Of course we still have to move all of that extra dirt off of the hillside. Yep, fun times up ahead there. Our next adventure will be coming up soon. We are heading over to Colorado Springs for our 4th anniversary! I can't believe it's been that long already. We'll have more pictures to put up when we get back!!! ;o)

St Charles Girls Camp

Casey and I got back from Girls camp on Friday. We spent two days and three night there. We both had a BLAST! All of our girls are so so so cute and fun! For our first day there, we went on a hike to Bloomington Lake. We hiked up this little creek here. Casey carried one of the little beehives up this. (I was scared that he'd slip and they'd both go down, but Casey got up just fine!)

There was a little pond up there where our president read a story


Here's a couple more pictures from the hike


When we got to Bloomington Lake this is what we saw.


There was a really cool rope swing here. Casey and I didn't have our swimsuits so we didn't do it but the girls did. Here's a video

That night we had fun around the campfire. There are some pretty fun camp songs. One of my favorite ones is called the jellyfish. The girls got Casey to join in on some of them!! He was so cute with the girls. He later said as we were coming home that he felt like they were all his little sisters. How cute! That night was the snipe hunt. Casey, of course, wanted to scare the girls. We heard all the girls scream not once but twice when he scared them. After that the girls had us try star tipping which I had never heard of. You spin around with your head up looking at the sky. Then you say when you are dizzy and someone flashes a light in your eyes. As soon as that light hits your eyes everyone goes down instantly. It was weird but funny! The next day we spent at Bear Lake and had an awesome time. That night was our testimony meeting and the value trail. The spirit was so strong there. All the girls and leaders shared their testimony. Of course there were a lot of tears. I gained a lot from girls camp and so did the girls. Here's a picture of almost everyone.

Way Way last weekend we did this!

Ok so I'm finally getting around to putting our fabulous time we had at the Stadium of Fire on here! We went out to eat at Outback Steakhouse. I had the best babyback ribs....Yummo! We got there a little early to park and find our seats. We took some pictures before it started.





We snuck this pic of Henry and Dini. I really like this next one it's priceless!

We weren't that high up in the stadium, but I bet it did help to have the binoculars!

I thought I took a picture of when Carrie Underwood sang the national anthem. That was such a moving performance. I had goosebumps and I even started to tear up a little bit. I'm glad we live here and I'm grateful for my country.
This is a video of Carrie Underwood. The recording and sound isn't the best though.
We tried to take some videos of the fireworks. Hopefully it turned out ok!

Well we took lots more videos and pictures but they're just not the same as being there. Here's one more we took of us.

Casey, I think, has his eyes so wide because he always blinks during pictures. So he makes his eyes go big like that!

Camping

We just went camping for the first time this year! We took the Ranger up Millville canyon. I'd never been up there. It was really pretty. We passed quite a few cows. Cowpies were 10 points if you hit them!!! This time we brought enough wood to last us all night. Casey actually ate a hotdog (he only has about 2 a year). We slept with our tarp off our tent so we could see the stars. Then we woke up to lots of wind and rain clouds. I was trying not to be a "debbie downer" and not pack up and go home and eat breakfast. Instead I started getting our propane cooker going for pancakes. Well needless to say, it started raining and it looked like it would only get worse. So we decided to hurry and pack up and go home. We had to drive the ranger home with the cold rain pelting our faces. We were soaked by the time we got home!! So the night of our campout was way more fun than the morning!

Runnin!

So this weekend was Casey's big run. He ran the Wasatch Back Relay race. I met him in Park City (after I hit all the outlet stores Wahoooo!!) after he had run. I don't have too many pictures of him running the race, but he said someone took some so maybe I can post those later. So Casey ended up running around 15 miles (13 miles more than I could have ran!!).Here's a before picture. His sweet sweat band he said came in handy!

He took a video of him running across the finish line with his team. (It's a little bumpy!)



All in all Casey did awesome!!! He was pretty sore and walked like Frankenstien for the first couple days! He says the worst part was his sunburn he got.

Well it was our first time in Park City. We decided to stay the night. Finding a place to park was a nightmare. But once we got parked we saw some awesome stuff on Main Street. I love Park City. Here are some pics but the ones of Main Street didn't do it justice.

This is Franz the Bear. He was just sitting there so we had to have a picture of him!

This is random isn't it!

Wow this is a long post but I have a lot to talk about! We went and rode the Alpine Slide. They had a coaster too but it was pricy and we didn't want to spend that.

Well that's our weekend in a nutshell!