Lake Powell

Wow! I'm so behind on my blogging! At the end of July, Nathan and I went to Lake Powell with my side of the family. After enduring many years of nagging sisters, Grady was excited to have our cousin Ryan come keep him sane. It was such a blessing to have my Grandpa and Grandma Hansen with us as well! Maegy was very missed but she is working very hard on her mission and touching many lives....8 more months and she'll be back :)
We had the most wonderful time EVER! I have done this vacation for as many years as I can remember but this was Nathan's first time going with our family and I think he was pleasantly surprised. Sorry for the world's longest post...This is also my best attempt at a journal.

The boys watching Napolean Dynamite on the drive up


A really cool storm came one afternoon and made tons of these beautiful waterfalls...don't mind Al


The whole gang (other than Dad) cruising through The Escalante River


The Girls at Rainbow Bridge


Our tough MEN!!!


Always an adventure when Grady's driving...love him!



I forgot to warn Nathan of the tradition...ok, maybe I didn't "forget"


Just enjoying the ride



At Dangling rope


WHIT!!


My 83 year old grandpa...pretty cool!


Dad!!! Ok, maybe we shouldn't have been out that late...oops!


Mamasita


Alex!


Grady! (haha, he's even smiling)


Ryan!


Me and Grams


He's Cute


And after a couple of hard falls...

He learned some cool tricks!


The boys playing Texas Hold 'em...Grandpa couldn't win so he told us Grady and Ryan kept cheating


The book club...always hiding from the rest of us :)


Al trying to get a signal...what's a poor teenager to do when she's deprived of text messaging!


Gramps teaching the boys how to fish...so cute!


Just before Dad nearly killed us


Don't let their smiles fool you...they were plotting how to use alka seltzer to blow up the fish...I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty cool


The best captain in the world!


These two were too cute!


Kayaking might be fun??? I wouldn't know, these two were trying to tip us the whole time :)


I'll give you a quarter if you can guess what we're playing


Everyone just doing whatever they want!


The whole Family!

We Moved!

Ok, it wasn't that big of a move but it has been wonderful! We decided it was important to stay in the same ward so we're only 2 blocks away. I will try to find a picture of our previous apartment but it was old and ghetto. We lived on the 4th floor walk-up in an apartment built in the 1920's. We lived there for 2 years and it was good but we were ready for a change. We found a couple year old duplex-type house with only one previous tenant. It is still only an 8 minute walk to the subway but in a more residential type neighborhood. The girls that live above us are my classmates and, I haven't met them yet, but I heard there is a couple with a baby in our building...Yay! I took some pictures to send my sister and thought I would share. I haven't really finished decorating - my Mom is coming for graduation and I really need her help.

View from the outside


Our old street smelled like dog crap...our new landlord plants pretty flowers right outside our front door :)


After you walk in the front door this is the long hall going to our kitchen and living room


The Kitchen...it's hard to tell, but this connects to the living room


Living Room...made especially to sleep many people :)


The Hall to the Bedroom


We love our new place...but mostly we love to have people come stay with us. So, if you want to come to NYC we'd love to have you!!!

Happy 4th of July

For the 4th of July we wanted to get away and do something relaxing. We decided to go to a little beach town in New Jersey called Cape May. It was so cute and quaint. We went with our wonderful friends the Smith's.

Car packed, drivers excited and ready to go!


Nathan snuggling with little Brody


I'm completely obsessed with this kid!

The Smith Family!

Headed to the beach!

Fun at the beach!



The town had a cute little flag ceremony at sunset, on sunset beach...where we found some Cape May Diamonds!

Brody "Aw man, this chick has got to stop squeezin me"

"Just kidding, I still love her!"

I've got to get myself one of these :)

Time to go home, what an awesome vacation!