Vernal Vacation

So our trip to Vernal (Jensen to be more accurate) was a smashing success. The kids had a great time, I think we all did. When we got in we dropped the doggies off with my mom to be babysat and left, she has this super tiny teacup chihuahua named So-So (cause she's so so cute and so so tiny) so she and Nanuk looked so funny together! I wish we would have thought to get a picture of them together. In the morning we ran to the grocery store to get breakfast for the kids and some food for the barbecue we were going to have, then we ran back and took the kids for a little trip around the green river. They used to have the coolest dino museum there with all these fossils embedded in the side of mountain. They had to close it because the structure was no longer safe, the word on the street is that they will open it again in 2011. We stopped off at the gift shop, which is still open and took pictures of the kids on their dinosaur.

Then we went to Mom's for the barbecue, it was awesome to see everyone all together. My mom gave me my super awesome new bike. It is perfect! Front shocks only like I wanted, size was perfect, just had a tune-up and was begging for me to ride off into the sunset on it. The only thing is that with the bike I've been borrowing from Aunt Kari is that it has a super nice gel seat and I've been spoiled with it. I got a gift card from REI for opening up a credit card account with them, so I am going to get a nice squishy seat for the bike.

Two little best friends!

After the bbq, we took the kids over to the Green River; my mom lives literally right on it. They had such a blast!! We all (except for Eric) got all wet and it felt good. The water was warm, the sand was soft and they loved it.

A frog we played with....

On Sunday, Eric, Ashlee and I hiked Mt. Olympus. It was fun, but it seriously kicked my butt!! I thought with all the biking I do, it would be no big deal. Well, here it is, 3 days later and I can barely walk. Ashlee turned around at the half way point, but I was glad that we had her company at least for a little while, we'll have to start out on some easier trails. We tried taking Peanut to the top, but it was getting too tough. The very end is rock scrambling and when we tried lifting her up over the rocks, she started slipping then we started slipping trying to keep her from going over and it was scary. We also knew that for all that we went up, we were going to have to come down and that would be extra difficult. I count it as a victory though because we were right there, maybe 10 minutes from the top, but just had to turn around for safety reasons. I never thought I'd see the day when Peanut was tired out, but we sure did it then! Towards the bottom she just kept walking a few feet and laying down. When we got home she didn't move at all.

Eric kept making Peanut stand up and look over the edge, he thought it was so cute.. he was right.

Here we are close to the top, at the saddle. We were about 1/2 hour from turning around at this point.

On Monday, the girls (Ashley F. and Ashlee B.) and I went up to the Spruces to take pics of where Eric and I are getting married to get some ideas. We will use the cabin if the weather is bad, but if it's nice we want to get married in the meadow... however, I also took this pic of the baseball cage because I think it's hideous and we need to think of some way of jazzing it up and making it look nice, so let me know if you can think of anything.










Then we went and tried on wedding dresses, I totally found the one I want but I want Eric's mom's opinion before I buy it. I think it 's perfect, we'll see!!