Moab Birthday Bash Weekend

I honestly can't think of a better way to celebrate Steve's big 30th birthday, than to go to Moab...his favorite place in the world! And although he is still in denial that he is 30 and not 23 AGAIN, I think he had a great time.

I think Katy is starting to see why we love Moab so much....because she loves it! As you can see.

We started our whole shin dig out by taking the back road into Arches. Jordyn and Carter tagged along because Chris and Wendy went to Flordia. Jordyn ended up riding with us most of the time, but she sure liked the "jeeping" we did!

The three gossips. Arches is seriously the most beautiful place around! people come from all over the world to enjoy the beautiful scenery found here, and it's just in our back yard!

This is Katy's new "cheese face", not sure about this one...but it does make me laugh! She was having a blast with Carter at the visitors center.

We tried to find a way to tame all these wild animals!

They did a pretty good job too.

For the most part...this guy just couldn't be tamed :)

The following day we took a trail up to one of our favorite lookouts for lunch. Actually we were going to eat our picnic lunch up there but Steve locked the keys in the truck at the campground. We had to hang around for AAA (thank you Roger for being prepared, I think we use it more than he does!), so we ate our lunch at the campground!

But, as always, the view is great!

You can't tell but Katy just woke up from a cat nap. Man nothing puts her to sleep better than riding on the trail.

Ha, us in all our camping glory! No make-up baby, Steve that is :)
Our last day we headed back to Arches and hit up a few favorite spots for kids. The windows was a great start.

Katy is so funny....she just wanted to do everything by herself, including climbing up all 100 stairs! We had to help her a bit (or we'd be there all day) and she did not like that!

Roger and Joanne are always up for an adventure!

Jordyn and Carter were both great with Katy. I think she liked having them around!

Beautiful!

Sand Dune arch was a favorite place of the trip. Carter duplicated the arch in sand, not too shabby indeed!

Jordyn and Katy opted for a Rapunzel tower. Well, I think Katy was calling it that at least! Ha

Man oh man, we had SAND in places we didn't know we had! Poor shoes, those things are still bright red with sand!

Don't blink but that is a lizard in Carters hand. Ok you can blink because he is actually dead! Yuck!!! Ha, they found him on the rock. Carter really wanted to catch a lizard the whole time, with no luck. He was trying to convince Joanne that he needed to keep this guy. Also of note, they swear that he was moving when they put him back on the rock! Ha

Ok, so I was a slacker a bit on the trip with the camera because we also hit up main street in time to see a homecoming parade for the high school. We also ate out on Friday night (in celebration of Steve's birthday) at Zac....all you can eat pizza, salad and soup! Yum!!!! Man they have some dang good pizzas.

On Saturday (our last Arches day) we watched the U game against BYU. It was funny that we were all decked out in our U gear and everyone kept asking what time the game was on, or go UTES! Although Steve's actual birthday was on Sunday I think that was the icing on the cake to watch that game. At half time we made him go back to the trailer and get Katy's jammies. I had Carter and Jordyn set up some decorations and we surprised him with silly string and cake batter cookies when he came back...complete with candles! Ha! It was a great day! We love you STEVE!