Summer Vacation Part II

After our long hike out, Josh and I stopped for breakfast a Denny's in Kingman! Denny's has never tasted so good! Then it was on the road again; we were headed up through Las Vegas on our why to St. George to stay with Darrell and Penny Farley for a few days!

Here is the new bridge on our way across the Hoover Dam.

Once in Las Vegas, we headed over to Jeff and Venessa Farley's house! They let us get showered up and rest for a bit at their home, THANK YOU JEFF AND VENESSA!!! We got to hang out with Cricker for a bit, then we went out to dinner with Jeff and Venessa and Bryan and Kellie. It was so nice to catch up and get to see the Farley's! (So I forgot to take pictures during our short time there :(

Then it was off to Ma and Pa Farley's (Darrell and Penny). We hung out for a few days there watched movies, plays with Rusty (the Farley's dog), relaxed, went fishing THANK YOU DARRELL (I for once out fished Josh! YAY!), Penny, Penny's Mom, and I was went to see Eclipse in the theater THANK YOU PENNY! It was a blast! We always love visiting the Farley's! I think that has been the thing we do most with our vacation time. :) Then it was back across northern Arizona! we drove through Jacobs Lake and saw some cute little deer. A doe and 2 fawns. If you have driven that way you know how narrow and windy that road is. The mama and 2 babies got separated, but not long after we snapped a few pictures did that make it back across safely.

We continued out journey over to Taylor, Arizona. This area is were most of my family is from and I was so excited to take Josh there to see the Taylor 4th of July celebration. I was so excited and woke everyone up at 3:30 AM to get bundled warm, and jump in the truck. For what you might ask.... (SEE VIDEO AT THE END OF THIS POST FOR THE ANSWER)
Everyone is still sleepy if you can't tell!I was so excited and woke everyone up at 3:30 AM to get bundled warm, and jump in the truck
Papa and Josh cooking up some delicious food in the dutch ovens! Yum!



Finally, here is anvil going off! This is one of my most favorite memories of a TAYLOR FOURTH OF JULY!!!

Summer Vacation Part 1

(Sorry everything doesn't line up)
So Josh had about a week off before starting back to school this summer; so we made the most of our time and did some fun things together.

First, we spent a couple of days up in Parks, AZ at Gary & Jan's cabin. Tom and Shirley, along with Darrell and Penny Farley, were also up there celebrating Tom's birthday. On Sunday morning we woke up at 3am and headed off to Hualapai Hilltop, were we began our 11 mile hike down to our camping spot in the Havasupai Campgrounds. This was Josh's first time hiking down and I was so excited to share with him why I love this beautiful place so much. I think this was the latest in the year I had ever been and it was really hot! Not to mention that due to the destruction of the vegetation from the flood a few years back it isn't as cool (temperature wise.)

Here we are at Hualapai Hilltop, excited to start

the hike down!



























The Hike Down!









Havasui Falls!





















Mooney Falls









Our Camp and Hiking down to Mooney Falls













































We found this cool little cave/waterfall down stream from Mooney Falls










One of the cute trail dogs followed us the entire hike out to the top! It made hiking out much more fun! We left the campground at like 2am (we had no way to tell time), because we didn't want to be hiking too late in the morning.







I had a blast and hope my husband did too! There is more to come so stay tuned!!!