~HaPpY eAsTeR~

Easter was so much fun this year! Stratyn was old enough to actually hunt for eggs. It was so cute watching him get those expressions on his little face when he would see one and run as fast as his little legs could to try and get it. Jake was helping him this year and i was, of course, following them around with a camera. haha

Lehi, emilee, emerie, and tyken was with us this year also, and emrie had as much fun as stratyn did! Shalaine, Ronnie, and the two kids braylee and waylon also came and spent the weekend with us.

We got there thursday afternoon and had dutch oven for dinner and yummy peach cobbler. jake's brothers lehi and james came out. On friday, shalaine and ronnie came and set up there camping trailor. My dad has this little battery operated razor chopper he got and the thing has no balance i mean you have to have great balance or your on your face in the dirt. haha But me and shalaine tried to ride and boy what a work out it was! she almost wrecked like 500 times and i was on the ground just rolling. My mom also tried to ride it and boy o boy what laughs that got!(sorry mom). then on saturday, we dyed eggs and had a big bbq and dutch oven dinner again it was so good! and then of course, sunday we hunted for eggs that the easter bunny left. stratyn got a new spongebob fishing pole, tackle box, a little candy, some clothes, and a couple stuffed animals. yeah spoiled hehe

What A Ride!

A couple weekends ago, my family went on a four wheeler ride
down the alvey wash and ended going one mile from the utah-arizona border. It started out being a blast! I was riding with jake and he had to do the usual fish-tailing to try an scare me(it worked)lol. But we first stopped at some moqui caves that sat right on the road. stratyn had fun climbing in them and taking pictures, he loved it! It was so cute cause he did not want to leave "his house."
We got going alittle ways and stopped at another moqui house that sat in the side of a cliff, that you could hike to, and ate lunch there.
We were all hyped up to go further and further, so we did. As we made it closer to arizona we were into alot of coal that was seeping up from the ground. By this time the ride was getting uncomfortable and wishing we had kept our mouths shut!
Getting that close to lake powell was quite an excitement which helped keep us going, but not for long. The coal got into our eyes and burned like crazy, but we had to keep going, it was faster to go the rest of the loop than turning back.(unfortunatly)
So we made it 12 miles from big water, and jake decides to roll the four wheeler that he was on, bent the crap out of it lol, but he was okay thank god! we just laugh now.
so to make an already long and boring story short, we headed back, all of us ran out of gas or either coasted to camp cause preston forgot the gas can, and was covered in dirt from head to toe! After all that, stratyn wanted to go more and more! he was crazy! we went 130 miles that day, and going to do it again with a smile on our faces!......YA RIGHT!haha

here are some pictures: