MOAB

Thanks to Chel's hook-up and all her coordinating, 
the whole fam went to MOAB!!  
All the sibs, Tol, Addi & Becka drove down a day before my parents.   

 I had NEVER been to Moab so we had A LOT to get done in just a few short days.

1.  Power House 

This was a super cool place!  But considering I just had surgery a week and a half prior and we had 2 little kids with us, it probably was a bit much.  Everyone was so great to help carry my stuff... and kids :)

We hiked through lots of water that Tol thought was awesome UNTIL he saw a 'LOBSTER.'  Then he totally FREAKED.  It was only a crawdad, but it made a LONG and HEAVY hike for whoever was carrying Tol across the water.  

Once we got to the POWER HOUSE  Tol got over his fear of lobsters.

        Tol lovin POWER HOUSE.  Especially playing with Harley!

Mom & her babies!

 Addi lovin the POWER HOUSE

2. DINNER 

Mom and Dad got there that afternoon so we met up with them at their hotel.  After driving around for a good 45 minutes out to the middle of NO WHERE trying to find a KARAOKE restaurant someone told me about, we ended up at the Slick Rock Cafe.

The live music lured us in.  The guitar player with the long hair came and sat with us for a while during one of his breaks.  Awesome dude!  And they provided good tunes to eat to and DANCE to!

3.  Balancing Rock

4.  Hike around other parts of the park

5.  Addi cleaning out her shoes every 30 seconds.  NO joke!

My fault for not bringing better shoes.  Sorry Ad, and everyone else who waited with us.

 

 6.  Delicate Arch lookout point

We were wimps and opted for the lookout over the real thing because of the aforementioned surgery, kids and now we've added a lady on oxygen.  It was still a pretty cool hike. 

  

7.  Delicate Arch pics

8.  Getting Tan & DIRTY!

This picture doesn't do it justice, but his tan line (accentuated with lots of red dirt) was crazy!

 9.  FIREWORKS!!

since we were there over the 4th.  Here we are chillin on the HS Football field waiting for them to start.  They put on a pretty good show.  Way to go Moab!

  

We had such a great time!  The best part was being all together as a family.  Too bad Dave was already in MN and couldn't join us.   My Dad, Nils and I also went to sacrament meeting there and it really was one of the best meetings I've been to.  There was such a sweet, humble spirit there and everyone was so nice.

All in all, Moab did not disappoint!  Hope I'll be there again soon!... and feeling a little better and up for a little more than this time.