Subway

In June we went on the hike we had been preparing for! It was really neat! I'll be honest at the time I thought, I never need to do this again. Getting out of the canyon is a beast! But thinking back, it was so beautiful! And we had a great time!

While everyone went to the store to get a few last things for the hike, I went and visited one of my friends from college and her twin boys! Our babies got to meet for the first time, it was a lot of fun! I'm sure as they get older it will get more and more fun!
Silly phone, the picture didn't look blurry after her husband took it and I looked at it, but it is... nuts.

Our original plan was to go on two hikes that weekend, but we got up there a little later than planned, and decided just to do a little walk and ride the tram instead. My sister was using my phone and left this gem on it. So I thought I'd share it! I'd also like to give a shout out to my sister and my brother for the pictures of the hike, they took most of them with their GoPro!

Sweet Girl fell asleep on the walk.

Uncle P was happy to carry the sleeping babe.

 She woke up when we finished the walk,

she loves water,

I think she felt that there was water to play in and woke up to do so!

 That night we camped out by a lake,

that wasn't the original plan either,

we were going to camp on a friend's property,

but we couldn't find it.

Not for a lack of trying,

but we finally gave up because we were tired and super hungry.

So we took the only spot we could find.

It ended up working out very nicely, I think!

After breakfast, we went to the trail head.

The start

 

This hike really had some amazing views!

As I mentioned before, this hike had a few rappels, this was the first one.

It also had water we either had to swim through or walk through.

The water was so nice after the hot sun!

In this particular picture, my little brother had just swam through a hole in the rock with his goPro on his head, we were all cheering for him!

 The iconic Subway picture

 My Sweet Husband and I

Can you see why it is called the subway?

 Their goPro doesn't have a self timer so we would record a video and all just freeze when we wanted a group picture... lol! So these two pictures (above and below) are of a time when we were getting a group shot.

 In case you still couldn't see the subway-ness of the subway.

The hike is so beautiful, but since it's a slot canyon that you do the canyoneering and such through you hike into the canyon and hike out.... the out was TOUGH! It was straight up and super steep! I'm a bit afraid of heights, so at times my eyes were glued to the trail and I was trying my hardest not to look over the edge!

But we made it!

Here's the group at the end!

(Minus my little brother who took the picture)

Wondering where Sweet Girl was while we were hiking?

She was having a fabulous time with both her Grandmas!

First Camping Trip

We wanted to see how Sweet Girl would do camping,

so we went to a campsite about 10 minutes from our home and gave it a whirl.

We figured if we were close to home, if it was a total fail we could just pack up and be sleeping in our beds in 20 minutes... lol!

 Sweet Girl did SO well!

She loved it!

 Aunt S and Uncle J came along too!

It was a lot of fun!

We wanted to see how she would do before our hike in a national park later on in June... more of that to come!

Memorial Day Weekend

We've been trying to go camping during Memorial Day for several years now.

This year we were finally able to make it happen!

We invited some friends and our family.

Not everyone was able to make it, but we still had a great time!

My sweet husband, my in-laws, and I headed up to the mountain on Friday.

One couple headed up Thursday and saved us spots.

We arrived at camp in the afternoon,

set up camp,

and made dinner.

My family arrived late that night.

The weekend was really great.

We went on a 9 mile hike, 

my sweet husband's family had gone on this hike before but no one remembered how long it was.

But it was worth it.

It was really pretty.

We went on a short hike as well and had watermelon that we chilled in the river.

(Photo created to TP... thank you Facebook and T of course)

And we did a lot of eating and relaxing.

My sweet husband also made a rope swing for the kiddos....

and a few others tried it too.