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!!!

Fun at the Zoo

I have recently watched Kaden Olsen (family friends) while his parents were out of town. One of the many fun things we did was go to the Wildlife World Zoo with my mom and sisters.

They have an aquarium now. This tank has stingrays and bamboo sharks that you can pet! I was pretty fun and the kids loved it!

This little otter was just scarfing this fish down! They are so cute!

The kids liked the petting zoo! Kaden with a little goat! Isn't he cute!

Nat holding a goat... and then we got scolded by the zoo lady! Oops

So this was pretty funny and all the kids still talk about it... There is a super cute, fluffy Llama in the petting zoo. Ali was feeding it so that I could get a picture with all the kids and the llama. I took a picture and figured I should get a second one because Alisyn wasn't looking...Here is the second one... while taking the picture I hear a really weird noise and ask the kids, "what was that?" Natilee and Kaden tell me the llama just sneezed. I look at Ali who hasn't said anything yet; her hand is covered in green llama snot! It was classic and disgusting! You can totally tell in the second picture that llama is up to something. We all thought it was pretty funny!

There were lots of baby animals at the zoo... giraffe

A joey named Roo in his pouch

Baby Tigers only a week old

We all had a ton of fun!!!

Random petting zoo footage!

A Few Events

This is all the Hatch Ladies at MeKell's Baby Shower! Ramsay was javelina hunting, so she wasn't joining in the fun!

All the cousins!While I was working up in Phoenix and Josh was down in Tucson, we didn't have much time to spend together. One night I came home to this! What a sweetie!

Josh had the opportunity to go present his research from this summer in Carmel, CA.

He took some pictures, because I couldn't go with him! Its really beautiful!

My handsome husband!

YAY... for Internet!

Finally a posting and pictures of our new "toy" as promised... Nope not a puppy, I wish! Its probably not as exciting as most of you thought, but we have been looking for one of these bad boys for awhile now! This our BIG Orange Suburban. 'Crush' (like the soda) or as my sisters like to call it 'The Great Pumpkin.'





Its a 1970, 4X4, three door beast! But it is a lot of fun! I am sure there will be many a night spent working on our new truck!

I also wanted to post the project Tom and Josh, and a few others have been working so hard on! The 1968 Camaro!

This is what she use to look like....
Many hours were spent making her look like new....

The Final Result

Those two boys have too much fun, working on cars and they sure do a great job!

I have so much more to post!!!!! Stay tooned!

Quick Posting

Hey all! I have moved back to the Valley! No internet yet and Josh is still down in Tucson and studying like mad! But we do have a new toy.... which I will have to post later! It is pretty fun!!!!!

Parks, AZ with the Hatch Family

This December my parents celebrated their 25th anniversary! They decided they wanted to go up north and rent a cabin!

It was snowy! Look at the icicles outside of my window!
The girls outside with the snowman!
Emily sledding down the hill!
Natilee & Alisyn zoning out after a long day of playing!
Cute Mia
Alisyn & Kendon hiking out the box caynon!
Emily & Roo Bear in Box Canyon
Me at the snow play area
The girls dropping like flies after a day of hiking and sledding
Josh in his Christmas camos, ready to go coyote hunting!
Roo's great shot
Ali shooting
Mom and Josh
Dad helping Nati!Me and my Christmas present from my hubby, a glock 27
Dad trying out my present!

Josh helping my mom shoot

We had a really fun time and did a lot of cool things! Thanks mom & dad! We love you!