Ladies, ladies

Ladies night!

What do you get when you get 4 cooky friends together once a month and add a camera?.....

You get a REALLY fun night once a month and... A...LOT of pictures! ") We have so much fun together.

We were all friends in middle and high school and have grown closer.
They started when one of the beauties was getting married, the one with the long blond hair. We had a bachlorette party for her and decided then that to keep track of eachother and to have fun we would do a "Ladies/Girls/Wives night". Since then I think we have done it just about every month since, taking turns at eachothers homes.

Well why the pictures, and why a million? Well one year the other cute blonde came up with the idea to get the same frame for everyone and put a picture of all of us in it. This past one I decided I wanted to get us all an updated one for a couple of reasons... One- Two of us are mommies now and granted we haven't changed much but still.. Two- This was our last one for a long time with all of us there, Bobby (aka Robyn) is moving to Spocan ( I have no idea how to spell that :s ) Washington for her hubby's Law school.

Obviously we took the picture taking very seriously, well I guess I was the only one, I was not in on the pulling a face joke, ha ha ha, funny girls ;)

Sure we took alot of photo's but you know something?... Taking the pictures is the funnest part of the picture! I think the one at the top will be the one we use this time. I couldn't have asked for funner (is that even a word?) friends, love you guys!

Or a better husband, who watches Jace for some of them! Thank you babe, you are so wonderful :)

Arches National Park

K so here are my pictures that I took at Arches National Park! How pretty that entire park is, I tell you what. The hike was nice, nice to move my muscles in a different way other than walking around the house or the neighborhood. It was so windy at the top and it was threatening to rain on us so we didn't stay long and didn't go right up to it. We will have to do that on another visit there.

My cute boys. Jeff was so great and carried Jace the entire time, I did offer but he said he was fine. He got one heck of a workout though, adding on an extra 25 lbs!

This one was taken just below Delicate Arch on the trail, the scenery was so beautiful!

My cute little man enjoying the hike. So many people who passed us kept saying " now that is the way to travel!" He thought so too until it got closer to the end then he was just done and wanted a nap. Such hard work for the 10 1/2 month old ;)

Yup this is when he was done, he kept snuggling his face into Jeff's back and rubbin those eyes. He still seemed to enjoy it though.

Here is a yellow Cactus flower, pretty huh?! I had never seen a cactus flower in the wild, they are much prettier in the wild than the plastic ones that they glue on to the top of the ones in the store.

Here are more Indian Pictorgraphs. These were actually just past the trail head to the Arch. They are much better preserved than the ones we saw Sunday in Nine Mile Canyon. This is because these are actually robed off so nobody can touch them. Atleast the honest people. It is so cool to see these kind of things, makes history that much more real to me.

Pretty rock formation in Arches, one of many, many, many!

This one is taken just to the right of the last one. Can you believe what nature can do to these rocks, they looked so cool :) I hope we can go again soon!

MOAB

So we went to Moab this past weekend! It was a lot of fun, Jace even came with us. He didn't really understand the whole Jeeping concept but he still liked playing on the rocks and being with some of his cousins.
We were teetering on two wheels in this one. Suprisingly I really enjoy doing this stuff now. The first time we went we were in a rental and I was sooo nervous about digging the dang thing that I didn't enjoy the trip as much as I would have liked. I have been twice (to Moab atleast) since then in our own souped up jeep and have loved it :)

We did some sight seeing while there. We went to Arches National Park (pictures will come later there were too many for one post) and went to some sights that had Indian pictographs / pectographs. It was really neat to see. We looked for some ruins, but to no success. Ah well.

Here is Jeff with some more Indian "journal keeping" ;)

The cactus's were in bloom! The flower's were gorgeous. We saw yellow, red, peach and this red one. It is the prettiest in my opinion. Jay (my brother in law) took all of these pictures, the ones I took are on the main computer so I will post them later. He does a good job dosn't he?!

This magistion was SO good! I am still baffeled at some of the things that he did. He was so close to us and he had a couple of people even trying to see how he did things and still amazed us. He is so good at what he does, we even went back to the resturant the next night to see him again :)

This rock Jay says has changed alot in the past few years. So he wanted a picture of it for future veiwing. It is a really cool picture, if you ask me!

We did some playing at the park behind our hotel. Jace and I went down a slide, and were about to go down this one as well until I got up there and saw how flimsy the thing was. I was not about to have Jay get a picture of me holding Jace falling halfway through the slide, that would not be so much fun for the two of us atleast. It would have been funny though.

Some of the stuff that we go on is pretty steep, Jeff is getting really good at driving though and we got up mostly everything without too much trouble. Jace didn't even notice a difference and cute Heather who rode with us was a little nervous at times. She was such a fun little passenger to have!

Double picture, sorry!

This is called "the arch" Original hu? Atleast that is what we call it. It is at the top of Poison Spider and it is a bit scary to get to, but as you can see I braved it and got there! It was kinda fun as long as you looked out and down instead of straight down. I was about the only one in our little family group that hadn't been on it, so of course I had to do it :) Just kidding I wanted to.

Jeff and our adorable nephew Wyatt, Me and Jace standing infront of the arch at the top of the trail.

Jayden was having so much fun splashing in this little pool of water! I was letting Jace splash too when Jayden got to splashing really big! Jace loved it! He was just a-laugh'n at him and splashing. It was really cute .

This one is just after he fell down in the pool. Very wet children.... and mommies :)

Wyatt joined in the fun too! Along with my cute sis in law Courtney. Jace is still laughing at Jayden.

We had a lot of fun, it was nice to get away from home and be outside.

We also went swimming at the hotel, it was Jace's first time ever! We forgot the camera though so no pic's of that. He loved it though he was splashing all over the place, drinking plenty of yummy pool water and kicking his cute chubby feet. He even got his face in the water, some of the time on his own, others we "helped" him :)
Moab is a fun place to go, for us atleast.