Thursday, October 25, 2012

Iron County Fair

 
 
Mady and I decided to join our friends, the Munks, and head on over to the Iron County Fair. Mady had such a blast. I bought her some tickets to ride the rides, we watched the talent shows, ate delicious food, and just had a blast. She absolutly loved the little petting zoo with all the farm animals.

I think Mady's favorite part was digging for gold. In a kiddy pool they had filled it with woodchips and coins. She loved trying to find all the money she could. She would probably stay there all day if I let her. She was quite proud of the 15 cents she found.
Mady loved riding all the rides. We rode the merry-go-round twice, she loved it so much.
 
While we went to find the bathroom, Mady saw the little kiddy train and just had to ride it.
I let Mady choose which rides she wanted to ride. She first chose the big slide. She loved that one a lot we had to go twice. She then chose the boat ride. I was a little nervous on that one because she kept on leaning over trying to touch the water. Luckily we had no accidents.
The next ride Mady chose was the cars. She was so glad she was able to ride with another little girl. She thought the cars were so cool, I couldn't get her off of it. I only had one ticket left (it costed 3), but the guy who was running it let her go again just for that one ticket. This time, she wanted to be in the back of her car.
It was hard to get her to leave but I wasn't about to pay another $20 for more tickets. We weren't even out of the parking lot before she was gone. We sure had a fun time while Ray was at work. Can't wait till next year!

Lake Powell - August 2012

Hey I'm blogging again! I know its been two months since my last post but things have been crazy for us. Hopefully I will find time to blog about that. But onto one of the best times of the year - Lake Powell. This year was amazing. We were so glad that we were able to take time off of work and school to drive away to our paradise with the Martel Family. With only one day in between our trip to Cali and this, we were quite stressed. But all that went away as soon as we arrived. We sure missed this....
 
We had a lot of fun making awesome sandcastles...
 
We loved hiking around. Ray, Ethan, Papa Joe, and Barb went out running to some awesome arches and canyons. And of course we went on our annual hike to Chester's Grave.

 

We went to the different canyons on the boat. It was so nice just to relax, nap, sleep, or swim.

Right by our campsite, Ethan found some petroglyphs. He was pretty proud.
We also had our annual glow-in-the-dark dance-a-thon.
Mady had such a blast swimming, playing in the sand, and just being her crazy cute self. She loved collecting seashells in her bucket. She also became really good at swimming by herself. She loved it.
We enjoyed our time at the houseboat just being lazy, playing games, swimming, canoeing, and going down the slide. Even Mady went down....with a little push.
We sure had a great time and can't wait to go next year!