UEA Weekend--Sand Dunes Again???

Well lucky for me we decided to go to the Sand Dunes again. I was able to get off work on Friday so we were able to get down there a little earlier that we had planned. Thankfully the weather was much nicer than it was a few weeks ago and Layne was able to get in a little riding Friday evening.






Scooter finally got used to riding around on "Big Red" and as you can see found it to be a bit relaxing :)


Unfortunately, in the middle of the night Friday Corbin woke us up with a temperature of 105. It scared us half to death. We stripped him down and gave him medicine (surprise....I had some medicine with me) and started getting some cold fluids in him to get the temp down. We could get it down around 101 to 102 but never much lower than that. Needless to say...nobody got much sleep. Corbin seemed to be doing okay other than the fever so we decided to stay and let the boys ride. They had a great time and Kyle was SO excited...he finally went up the face of Sand Mountain. After that there was no stopping him. He must have gone up it a hundred times in the few days we were there.

On Saturday night....I thought things were going to be okay and we were all going to get some much needed rest. Oh how I was wrong! It started with Layne waking up and running outside the motor home to throw up. Then Corbin woke up and I gave him some medicine to get his fever down. The sugar in the medicine made him soooo hyper and he literally bounced around the bed like a little maniac the rest of the night.

Despite being extemely tired and a few of us a little sick. I think everyone had a good time!

Sand Dunes

Well Corbin just experienced his first trip to the Sand Dunes. We went down on Friday night and most of Saturday rained so we didn't do much of anything but sit around play games and eat lots of fattening food. Luckily on Sunday it cleared up and we were able to get out and have some fun. Scooter had a great time cruising around on his little 4-wheeler.





He wasn't really fond of the big one's at first, but after watching all the people he decided that it was safe and finally decided to hop on for a little ride.All the boys were glad that the weather cleared up and that they had a chance to ride their motorcycles up Sand Mountain.

Thanks Dad and Sonja for inviting us to come with you. We had a great time!

Yellowstone

We just got home from a great trip to Yellowstone with Dad, Sonja, Kyle, Grandma & Grandpa Green, LuAnn, Jennifer, Melanie, Kelsey, Brook, Pat and Curt. On the way there we stopped to see the animals at Bear World. We had tons of fun there. We were able to go on the curator tour where we got to feed lots of different animals including the dumb-dumb turkeys, the elk, and all the cute bears. One of the big bears had even learned that if he clapped for the people that he would get more food. Corbin wasn't quite sure that he wanted anything to do with the animals, but after much coercing he feed the baby deer and pet the snorting pig. It was all over with, however, when the two geese came and tried to eat his shoelaces while he wasn't looking. You would have thought that they had come to eat him!

It was a bit rainy and quite cold in the Park but we still had a blast. We stayed at Al's Westward Ho (which we re-named "The Crazy Ho" cuz the lady that ran the place was quite a charm. I guess you can't expect too much with a name like that. We spent two full days driving around the park looking for animals and listening to the elk bugling. We had several picnics in the park thanks to good planning from Sonja and Grandma....and we can't forget all the traditional frosty chocolate malts! I think that Grandpa had all but turned into one by the time we left.

Dad and Sonja brought several two-way radio's so we were able to converse back and forth between each car which made it lots of fun. On occasion, Grandpa Green would tell us a funny story like about how he and the Mammoth Judge had developed such a close friendship when they used stay in the park for weeks at a time.

We also got lucky and on our way out of the park on the final day we got to see a big grizzly bear. They had only spotted two bears in the park in the previous week so we were extra lucky to be able to see one of them. We are so glad that we were able to go and grateful that everyone was able to come as well. We look forward to doing it again next year!

Yellowstone Pics

Lake Powell

We just got back from our trip to Lake Powell. We bought a houseboat earlier this year and this was our second trip to the Lake this summer. Corb's had a great time. He really loved playing in the water. We had an awesome trip with our friends: Kyle, Jenilyn, J.P., Braxton, Natalie, Hailey, Riki and Cody. Scooter especially loved playing with Kyle, Braxton and Hailey.



We did lots of fun things while we were there. Grandpa and Grandma Green were kind enough to let us borrow their 1976 Fiberform boat at the last minute. We all tried to come up with a good name for it and I think that we settled on the "Orange Crush." We all had a great time in the "O.C." We were able to get everyone that was interested up on a wakeboard and had lots of good laughs in the process. We also were able to scare the pants off of Kyle on the tube. I am not sure that he is going to trust Layne behind the wheel of a boat for some time ;-). The O.C. also carried us all on a little sightseeing adventure over to Mookie Canyon where we all got out and had a great time swimming and having lunch on the beach.

Corb's also had his first experience at skinny dippin'. He was quite an exhibitionist, but I don't think anyone seemed to mind. He has the cutest little bum...it's hard not to love it. He also took his new little 4-wheeler and was cruzin' around on the sand and rock like he was a little pro.

Kyle, Hailey, Riki, Cody, Natalie, and Braxton all went out lizard hunting while we were there and brought back the biggest lizard that I have ever seen at Lake Powell. Cody and a few of the others made a very nice home for "Freddie" and he spent several nights with us on the the houseboat until the kids felt bad for the fat little thing and decided to set him free.

Overall, we had a very fun trip and we are so grateful that we had such good friend to share our trip with us and we look forward to returning to Lake Powell next year.

Lake Powell Slideshow