Nauvoo 2012

My sister Jo lives in Nauvoo, IL so I flew to visit her for her birthday. I went with my dad and his wife, Bobbie and we met my other sister Amy and her little boy Orion there. We had a great time. I really enjoyed the temple and the beautiful fall colors.

Thanks Jo for a wonderful weekend! I love you!

 I loved the temple at night with the full moon.

The Mexican restaurant where we went to eat for Jo's birthday sang to her and put whipped cream on her nose. We weren't sure if that is a tradition of Mexico or what but it was fun!

Snowflake Triathlon and kids Dualathon

I have always wanted to do a triathlon. My brother Scott and his wife Janea were doing one in Snowflake with her family. I decided to join the fun. It was a great time. I started just a minute or two before Scott. Here we are waiting to start the swim. We swam 525 meters, biked 13.1 and ran 3.1 miles.

It was a great time!

Josh got a great picture of Scott swimming. I must have been to fast to capture. HA HA! 

I was so proud of Madelyn for wanting to sign up for the kids bike/run.

She did so good. She got 2nd place in all the girls.

I am happy that she had a good experience with physical competition.

GOOD JOB MADDY!

Diamond Backs game

We have enjoyed watching the Diamondbacks play this year. We usually try to make it to a game or two. 

Why all the green????

The game that we went to was college night. It was fun because Coach Gibson of  the Diamondbacks played football and baseball at Michigan State. We were certain that if we all went dressed in Green and White we would certainly get on the Jumbo tron........and there were no disappointments.

It was a Blast!

Notice the sea of green approaching a crowd of red!!!!

We really stuck out of the crowd.  We got the REEEally  cheap seats. But oh well. We got to stretch out and enjoy!

Thanks Mickey for help in entertaining the little ones!

The kids got on the Jumbo tron a couple of times but I only captured one time.

Baseball games are always complete after an ice-cream cone.

Josh and Sara - Durango August 2012

Thanks to my wonderful sister in law Janea Skinner for babysitting my crazy kiddos for the weekend so that Josh and I could have a wonderful get a away to Durango, CO.

We went through the reservation and Monument Valley and up to the temple in Monticello, UT.

Then we went an hour and a half to Durango.

It is so beautiful! The next day we drove 75 miles north of Durango through Silverton and into Ouray, CO. Now that is just AMAZINGLY Gorgeous. This is in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. It is just beauty all around. We saw some deer, waterfalls, lots of water and some of Heavenly Father's beautiful creations.

We took the chairlift to the top of the mountain at Purgatory and rode the alpine sleds down. That was fun!

This is right behind our hotel. It was right on the river.

Thanks Josh!  Happy 11th Anniversary. I Love you!