our road trip

This year we did a road Trip out to UT meaning we took our time.


Clayton Lake State Park, New Mexico  was our 1st stop to camp and to see dinosaurs tracks

 Camping on the ground was so hard. Then in the middle of the night Ben Max and I were both awake. It was SO WINDY that the tent walls were flapping so hard that we thought it was going to rain. Zack was the only one that was still sleeping. Ben and I were not able to go back to sleep, so at about 3 in the morning we decided to pack up and go. We packed up so FAST that we folded the tent like a blanket and just threw everything in the van. Well not Zack and Max we put them into their car seats. The good thing about it is that we got to go to our next place earlier than we thought we were going to be able to go.

Which was The balloon museum Albuquerque, NM. which is  one of their if in their big attraction it is full if different hot air balloons models which most of them you can get in and see what it is like

then the net day we headed out and went to Lowell Observatory Flagstaff, AZ
where the planet Pluto was discovered at. Ben and I went here as part of our honeymoon and we wanted to their again.

we spent all day their  we went to town and got some dinner which was Peter Piper Pizza and ate the food in the parking lot at the Observatory.

After dinner we went back in getting ready for the night time stuff where they putt out their telescopes to see what ever they can.

 this is is look at the sun.

looking at Saturn.

the next day we headed out to UT and we went to Bryce canyon to meet with Ben's family on the Durney side.

We did an in town camping

we went on a hike when most of the family  went in a lot of different groups.

 on our way back to sandy  Ben's parents, Jen her little girl Addy and Danny we went to
Cove Fort UT.
the site for Cove Fort was selected by Brigham Young because of its location about half way between Fillmore, then the capitol of the Utah Territory, and the nearest city, Beaver. It provided a way station for people traveling the Mormon Corridor. A town would have been constructed at the Cove Fort site, but the water supply was inadequate to support a sizable population. Another key factor in the selection of the site was the prior existence of a wooden-palisade fort, Willden Fort, which provided shelter and safety for the work crews who constructed Cove Fort.

The boys had their grandparents camp

While the kids were at the camp the parents went for some ice cream!!!!!!

one of the days the family went to.

Museum Of Natural Curiosity  at Thanksgiving Point

Floating heads

Then we headed out to Roosevelt UT and have

Lake day with the Ipson grandparents

the next day we were

On our way home

When we got back early that morning it was the blue bell taste of summer.