SATURDAY 7th....

RYLEE TURNED 4 YEARS OLD!!!!

After almost all day of the down poor of RAIN, we decided to take a trip to the Hoover Dam. This time we drove.

This rainbow was more beautiful in person!

The overflow spill way. kind of eerie if you ask me!

After the Hoover Dam, we went to "Peter Piper Pizza" to celebrate Rylee's Birthday!

I was messing with some settings on my camera while we were eating our pizza and I decided... Bo is a goofball (the camera just caught the funny side of the actions)!!! (:

On to Rylee's Birthday now...This was her cake, it's Tinkerbell and friends.

Her presents that she got from everyone... Take a look at those facial expressions. Can you not see her excitement? lol

FRIDAY 6th...

Our trip to Valley of Fire for some outdoor fun and four wheeling. (It looked like it was going to dump rain on us the whole day, but it didn't at all. We totally lucked out!)

About 5 minutes into our trip, Owen decides it would be a good idea to allow our 4 year old niece Alora to ride our minnie Four Wheeler (NOTE: We don't even allow our own 4 year old daughter to ride w/out an adult). This is what happened....

She was wearing a helmet, thank goodness. You can even see where her helmet did hit (the white smudge under the window at about the center of the door in second truck picture). I would love to explain how it happened, but I'm sure you can figure it out all on your own! Needless to say she was just fine, just a little scared and as you can see the four wheeler is in the worst shape. lol

We all went on a ride around the rocks and played around in the dirt.

We shot some pop cans with the Bebe guns.

We found some caves. Some even had little windows so the kids would go in w/out being scared! (:

This cave, I hiked to all by myself. It was really high and no one wanted to do it with me. There were soooo many bats in there, it was AWESOME!!! (:

We saw some Big Horned Sheep. There were so many of them! If you know much about these creatures, you know that there is only one alfa male. There was him and like 20ish females(I know what some of you men might be thinking, "lucky guy"! lol)


He was smelling for us!

We made some Sand Angels and got sand in places you don't want sand to be. But itwas fun in the process! (;




The only casualties all day was of course Alora's crash and then later towards the end of the day, Kodi touched the engine of our four wheeler and burnt all her finger tips on her right hand! She's fine now, just at the moment when it happened, she wasn't a happy camper (but who can blame her?).

Just a small gap! ...

Tonight, Owens parents, our niece Alora and our nephew Haydon are coming into town for the weekend. I should have plenty of posts after, but until then there wont be any posts. (Unless there are some boring moments witch never tend to happen when they are here!!!) Hope you all have a safe and fun weekend, I know we will! (:

Lake side trail & Hoover Dam

Today we went on a 7.3 mile bike ride along Lake Mead to the Hoover Dam. It was a very tough workout and one I would like to do over and over again! It is so peaceful and beautiful. To start, we did the Lake Side Trail bike ride. We went threw (I believe) 4 different tunnels. (For those who don't know anything about this trail, it was an old train track system that the tracks have been removed for hiking and such.)

(Our friend Mike went with us too and his wife Heidi missed out. Sorry Heidi!!!)

The trail ended at the Hoover Dam and we walked around there and played with some chipmunks.

(Rylee was scared to death to look over the edge. I don't blame her, it was freaking high!!!)

The chipmunks that we played with and fed, basically would jump in our laps! Bo and Kodi really enjoyed themselves. (:

Then we headed back the way we came. (: We stopped and hiked around about half way back. Bo thought he was cool beans! lol