Tuesday, July 6, 2010

New experiences

My mom has been a little home sick lately so she went to Kansas for a visit a couple of weeks ago. She thought it would be fun for us to meet her on her way back to Utah in Grand Junction, Colorado for the 4th of July weekend and we jumped on the offer. As most of you know, we used to live in the Grand Junction area and miss it a ton so we were excited to go back for a visit and to introduce Miles to the area! We decided to do a little camping. I figured it would be a tad bit difficult with a 9 1/2 month old, but I don't think I thoroughly thought through all of the "details" and how it would all work out. Now that we've camped with him once, we will be better prepared for next time! Don't get me wrong, we had a GREAT time! We just didn't get much sleep. Poor little Miles...he slept for 13 straight hours our first night back home and then took a really long morning nap. He was exhausted too! Here are a few pictures from our weekend away.

Miles awake at 5 a.m. the first morning, but happy as a lark!!!
(I love that you can see all THREE of his teeth in this picture)

Grandma and Miles

Exploring the tent
(Happy 4th of July!)

Colorado National Monument


Grandma, Miles, & Dale

Picture taken right before that pine cone went in his mouth!

I just love the Monument, such a gorgeous place!

Dad & Miles throwing rocks in the Colorado River

Zach, Dave had me take this picture just for you!!!

Enjoying the campfire

3 comments:

Richards Family said...

Great pictures! Its too bad we couldn't see you guys and meet Miles. Next time!

Dave and Holly said...

Val, I'm soooo sorry we weren't able to see you guys while in town! It was a crazy weekend and sort of planned at the last minute, didn't have much time to let you know we were coming. We'll be back and definitely get together then! Hope you had a good 4th!

Que and Brittany's Adoption Journey said...

You're getting the Chinese spam comments too, huh?

You are so brave to camp with a baby! We can barely get Liam to sleep in his pack-n-play when we stay in a hotel. LOL!