Weekend Getaway

I can't believe how long it has been since I have done a post. Been so crazy busy I don't have 2 seconds to sit down and write this.
These past few months have made me think about a lot of things and I just realize how thankful I am
Thankful for my 2 beautiful kids who drive me crazy, my hard working husband, my parents who dote on and spoil my kids, my loving family both near and far, wonderful friends to do those fun & crazy things with, the kindness of strangers, medical technology and knowing that God is always watching out for us.


Now onto Moab!
This past weekend we had planned a trip with our friends to go down to Moab, UT. We rented a condo. It was so nice to have a place to just hang out in, rather than a hotel. There was 10 of us that went down. We had a blast with a few mishaps along the way. 


Friday, we drove down in the afternoon and went to dinner with everyone, and spent the rest of the night talking and laughing.
Saturday, the boys were off on a mountain bike ride. The girls decided to head for a hike. We decided on Corona Arch. As we started hiking, we were only about 5 minutes in when a guy behind us said "Parrot". We turned around and lone behold there was a beautiful Scarlet Macaw. We sat there in awe, not believing what we were seeing. The guy behind us said "It's not like someone is out walking their bird." We were in agreement and just assumed someone's bird has escaped. Then there were 2 more flying above us. It was amazing. On we decided to hike. About another 5 minutes in a girl with us was starting to feel ill, so we decided to sit down and wait a minute. Then a guy starts walking down the trail and he has one of the birds. Come to find out he trains these birds on how to fly and come back. He is one of the only people in the world to be able to do it and he teaches other people from all over the world on how to do it. It was amazing, a once in a lifetime experience. 
Kim and Jandie were brave enough to hold one of them.  
We continued on our way up to Corona Arch. Once there we witnessed 1 person rappel off the arch and one more person rope swing on it. We headed back and waited on the boys, and headed to the pool for awhile. When the boys got back we went out to dinner. We tried finding some pizza place but after driving past the address 3 times and not finding it settled on a mexican restaurant, which was DELICIOUS! I highly recommend Miguel's Baja Grill if you are ever in Moab. After dinner we all went on a hike up to Delicate Arch. It was getting dark so it took a bit longer than it would have if it had been light out, but it was very cool to see all the stars and the arch in the dark. We hiked back and a friend of ours decided it would be funny to scare us by jumping out from behind a rock. I have never been so scared in my life. I screamed like a little girl! Glad everyone could get a laugh out of it except for me. After we got back we were so exhausted all of us ended up turing in early!
Sunday, 3 of the boys decided on a 10 mile bike ride. And the other 7 of us decided on a short hike to the Faux Falls. After we headed back to the condo pack up and meet up to go on one last hike up to a swimming hole. We headed on our hike and ended up missing the trail to the swimming hole. We hiked past it about 40 minutes before decideing to turn around and ask someone. We were super hot so we happened upon a little pool and all jumped in to try and cool off. We eventually found the trail after asking someone and hiked up to the swimming hole. There was a cliff jump there and eveyone decided they would jump in once and then we would head home. Everyone but Brad and I decided to jump. We hiked back down with everyone's backpacks. As we hiked down we could hear everyone chanting a friend's name, Bill. When we got to the bottom one of our friend's, Kim, came running up to us and told us Bill had bottomed out and dislocated his ankle. Brad and I ran over to him and we realized that we were going to have to carry him out. His ankle had popped back into place but he was in alot of pain. A guy was there who was an EMT, helped the boys carry Bill out. He was so nice. It was only a 20 minute walk back to the car but it took the boys over an hour to get him out. With the interesting end to our trip we got in our cars and headed home. 
When we got back into Salt Lake we went to the ER immediately and got Bill checked out. He had broken his ankle in 2 places and needed surgery. He had surgery Monday morning and everything went well.

The first night. We are missing a few people

Train Tacks through the canyon, on the way to Corona Arch

Kim, Jandie, Jenny and Me

The gorgeous Macaw

Chris the bird trainer with Grace and Siren

Corona Arch! With Jenny in the lead followed by Kim and Lena

Corona Arch

The Boys on their Bike ride, I think they did the Porcupine Rim Trail. (I could be very wrong on that one though)

Waiting for some Mexican Food. With Bill and Jake hugging, Kim, Me, Brad, Jenny, Jake and Lena, and Lena's husband Alex taking the picture

Hiking up delicate. 

Horrible picture I know, my camera couldn't focus since it was pitch black.

Faux Falls, with Jenny, Jandie, Me, Lena, Alex, Kim and Jake. Notice the us three single women on the left?

All the girls at the Falls

And finally the cliff jump. This is the jump that Bill broke is ankle on. This one is Jenny jumping. We didn't get alot of pictures since Brad and I hiked down before everyone jumped.