Vacation to see Nana and Papa

We were sitting eating dinner a few weeks ago, when Willey realized the next day was his dads 50th birthday, he asked me to get online to see about getting tickets so we could surprise him, and it would have been like 2000 dollars, so we decided to wait 2 weeks, and then fly out and surprise them, the boys were sooo excited to go on an airplane and see their nana and papa!! Willey and I were looking forward to some cooler weather!! So off we went and everything went surprisingly well. The boys loved being at the airport and riding on the moving walking lane and watching all the planes land and take off. We didn't get to Willits until late Thursday night, but the boys were troopers and still really excited to get there. Well our secret that we were coming had gotten blown the night before (unknown to us) but it was still good to be there. The boys had so much fun with Nana and Papas dog "bubblegum" but I am not sure that he felt the same way. They basically tormented the poor dog until he would run and hide!! Probably the best thing that happened while we were there was the food fight that Papa decided to start with Ryan. We had finished eating dinner outside, and Papa was still feeding Zack (of course!!) and Ryan said he wanted more mashed potatoes, so papa got a spoon full, and turned to Ryan and splat, threw it right on his face!!! Ryan just had this look like, Oh now its on!! And that was it, potatoes began flying for about the next 15 minutes. It was so funny and such a good memory for the boys!!

Then on Monday, we decided to go up to the coast, its only about 30 mins away, but its all switchbacks, and neither me or Josh handle those very well, but we made it without any throw up!! The boys love being at the ocean, and this coast is really rocky and they loved going exploring and looking at all the tide pools that were around. It was just a beautiful day and so relaxing!!

So glad we were able to go and relax and have so much fun and make so many good memories for the boys!!

Labor Day

Ok, so I know these are late, but it was just too fun not to write about. We went up to Frye Mesa and went to some natural water slides and just had such a good time! My parents went with us, and our friends the Littles, and their parents. The "big boys" had no problem climbing up the rocks and across the steep rock sides to get to the slides. I however was very uncertain of it all. You go down one slide and plung into this pool of water that is about 5 feet deep and not very big, then when you recover from the shock of the freezing water, you go down the second slide into the pool of water at the bottome. Easy enough right?? hahaha. So I let Brandons mom go first, common courtesy of course, and watched in HORROR as she went down the first slide and all you could see was her feet up in the air, which meant her head was in the 5 ft pool of water somewhere!! Was I crazy?? I was totally willing to just climb the steep rock sides to get back to safety!! But I couldn't chicken out. So I sit down and the water was so cold and I just pushed myself off, and tried to remember, keep my hands up feet down and I would be fine! I wasn't expecting the rush of water into my ears, (later had swimmers ear) but I did it!! I made it to the first water hole!! YES! The second one didn't look nearly as bad, so no problem right?? Well Willey had been down a few times and had always hit the same rock either on his thigh or padded part of his bum, so I knew there was a rock I wanted to avoid, and with all my luck in trying to miss the rock, I hit it straight on the end of my tailbone!! I thought I would die, I couldn't get up I just kept falling forward. So I put on a brave face and tried to walk it off, and gosh darn it like 3 weeks later and it still hurts to bend over, but I did it, I concered that water slide, probably won't be doing it again, but at least I can say I did it! So here are some pics from Labor day: