Zion Trip

Warning TONS of PICS!!!!

We went to Zion this past week for 5 days and enjoyed it all!

The first day we were there we hiked up to Weeping Rock as a family and someone took this OUTSTANDING picture of us!

Zachary didn't LOVE the backpack cause he's a little big for it, but he stood it, at least for this hike.Although it may look like Daddy drops him right out of the backpack, he didn't. It was just a mess trying to get Zachary out of it!Emma LOVED, LOVED collecting rocks and coloring on them. We came home with over 20 rocks she had collected and couldn't part with. Believe me when I say I left over half her stash in Zion!!!My 2 kids in their camping chairs

Every rock Alan sees that he could possibly scale, he does.

He's teaching his son this concept at a young age.

We enjoyed playing on some water in Zion. Although it was COLD after about 2 minutes you were too numb to notice how cold it was. My kids didn't even care how cold it was, they just LOVE water!

Zachary LOVES playing with Daddy's climbing gear, someday he'll put it to good use!

The kids were amazed by the big bugs, lizards, tad poles, and every other creature they could find or catch! Here they are all gathered around a lizard.

This is our own "BEACH". It was right by our campsite and the kids LOVED playing down there by the BIG water in the shade and sand.

Here's Emma's sand castle she built with the help of cousins:

Jason, our brother-in-law, took 4 groups of us 4 seperate times to canyoneer 2 canyons. I only did one of the 2 canyons and LOVED the adventure. Friday Jason, Jeff, Alan and I went to Pinecreek Canyon and enjoyed the adventure. There was 5-6 rappels, swimming in deathly cold water, hiking through beautiful slot canyons, and one final deathly boulder jumping hike out.

Here's one of the rappels we did into whats called The Cathedral

And yes, you rappel into chest deep, FREEZING cold water!

Emma with her Tadpole that Kaitlyn helped her catch.

My DIRTY, DIRTY boy loved the DIRT!

My little girl loved the dirt almost as much as her brother!

We had the dirtiest kid at camp HANDS DOWN!

I would say we had the 2 DIRTIEST kids at camp, but at least they were having FUN! Right!?

Luckily we had this as our Home Sweet Home for the five days so our kids could get cleaned up and be able to stay clean overnight. We love camping and can't wait to have many more adventures this summer!!