Capitol Reef.

I have this whole week off for vacation. We were going to go to Disneyland. I tried to convince LJ that it would be great because we could go to the front of every line since he is in a wheelchair, but he didn't go for it. So we settled for something a little closer to home and more low-key - Capitol Reef. It was super fun. We listened to everything from Handel's Messiah to Pearl Jam, talked, read good books, and saw beautiful scenery. The best part was just being together without worrying about anything else.

Grant and Ellie and some beautiful scenery.

The swimming pool at the hotel was one of the highlights for the kids. Ellie kept calling the hotel "our new home." She didn't want to come back to our "old home."

Grant being super brave. This is the kid who wouldn't even play at McDonalds Playland by himself until he was six.

Addie enjoying our breakfast on the road.

Some cool petroglyphs.

On one of our little hikes, this little stroller barely made it through!

This is how Macie spent most of the trip - happy on Dad's lap. It was actually really nice not having to haul the double stroller around.

A funny story about from trip - we got to our hotel around 7:30 pm. We checked in, unpacked, and got dinner at a local cafe. We left and went to buy some milk for Macie and could not find a gas station or grocery store open within a 20 mile radius! So we gave Macie a bottle of water for bedtime. She was not impressed. So she didn't fall asleep easily like she normally does. Instead she crawled around on our bed for TWO hours - in the dark - saying the only 'word' she can say - "Uh-oh!" (like what you say when something falls). She literally said that over and over for two hours while crawling all over me and LJ while we were trying to sleep. She finally sacked out on a bottom corner of the bed with her bum up in the air and didn't move an inch until she woke up the next morning.

SO much fun!