Grand Canyon

We went to the Grand Canyon last week with Taylor's whole family. We had SO MUCH fun! We camped for four nights. Taylor's dad served his mission in that area on Indian reservations so we visited some of his areas, a cool museum, an old volcano site and also some old cool pueblos. This picture is of Taylor and me with all the nieces and nephews. Please notice the shirts. We all had matching shirts this day; the guys in yellow, the girls in pink. It has a big tree with little birdhouses with all of our names on them. Some of my favorite memories of when I was younger are when my family would go on family vacations and we would get some sort of matching shirts. When we have kids we will DEFINITELY get matching shirts for the whole family when we go on our vacations!
On our way down to Arizona to meet up with the family we stopped in Blanding for a couple of days. My mom was in France so hopefully we helped my dad to be a little less lonely while we were there. We love to spend time in Blanding hanging out with Kristi, Jeremy and their kids. Also, my parents have five of the cutest little Shi-Tzu puppies right now and we LOVE to play with them. After we came back from the Grand Canyon trip we stopped in Blanding again; this time my mom had gotten home. We stayed for the weekend. On Saturday we went four-wheeling near Lake Powell with my parents and Jeremy and Kristi. It was a lot of fun, as always. Taylor is definitely sold on all the benefits of living in Blanding. Unfortunately after all our fun family time we had to return to real life in the big city.