it's autumn time, which also means it's time for sisters to sneak!
we did our annual sister sneak the second weekend of october. it was HIGHLY anticipated and such a great get away. natalie planned it this year and did a wonderful job.
thursday afternoon my mom and i loaded up my kids and our bikes and headed to malad, idaho where we had a quick visit with grandma freidenberger and met up with my sister, katie. after a quick dinner at the malad drive-in we headed to emily's place in lehi, utah.
katie and my mom stayed at emily's and i headed to orem,ut with the kiddos to spend the night at kevin's parents home. carolyn (kevin's mom) was kind enough to take care of my little ones while i went off to play! THANKS CAROLYN (and fred, laura, rosanne and rafa and whoever else entertained them during my absence)!
friday morning my four sister and mom came to pick me up in orem and we were off to moab, utah! five sisters and our mommy driving a suburban pulling a trailer full of bikes. AND, nobody knows how to back up the trailer. this should be interesting! ;)
the drive was enjoyable. it was fun to catch-up with everyone. but, when we arrived in moab it was raining. which put a damper on our bike ride plans. luckily, we are great at improvising and decided to drive through arches national park instead and moved our bike adventure to saturday.
the drive through the park was breathtaking. nature really is a wonderfully impressive thing.
the rain had kind of let up as we reached balance rock so we hopped out for a photo op.
we did our annual sister sneak the second weekend of october. it was HIGHLY anticipated and such a great get away. natalie planned it this year and did a wonderful job.
thursday afternoon my mom and i loaded up my kids and our bikes and headed to malad, idaho where we had a quick visit with grandma freidenberger and met up with my sister, katie. after a quick dinner at the malad drive-in we headed to emily's place in lehi, utah.
katie and my mom stayed at emily's and i headed to orem,ut with the kiddos to spend the night at kevin's parents home. carolyn (kevin's mom) was kind enough to take care of my little ones while i went off to play! THANKS CAROLYN (and fred, laura, rosanne and rafa and whoever else entertained them during my absence)!
friday morning my four sister and mom came to pick me up in orem and we were off to moab, utah! five sisters and our mommy driving a suburban pulling a trailer full of bikes. AND, nobody knows how to back up the trailer. this should be interesting! ;)
the drive was enjoyable. it was fun to catch-up with everyone. but, when we arrived in moab it was raining. which put a damper on our bike ride plans. luckily, we are great at improvising and decided to drive through arches national park instead and moved our bike adventure to saturday.
the drive through the park was breathtaking. nature really is a wonderfully impressive thing.
the rain had kind of let up as we reached balance rock so we hopped out for a photo op.
it's quite a bit more impressive in person. just unreal to see that big rock balancing like that.
we decided to try to take our own picture by balance rock. we got us...but, not the rock. oh well!
natalie, me, melissa, mom, katie, emily
then, we drove to the end of the park to decided the weather looked good enough to get a quick hike (1.6 miles round trip) in so we could see the longest arch in the park, landscape arch.
we snapped a couple pictures along the way.
as we were about to reach the arch the rain started dropping. anyone that knows me well at all knows that when i'm outside and it's raining my heart beats fast.
so, we snapped a couple more pictures and quickly started our walk back.
delicate arch
as, soon as we started back the THUNDER began. enough said really. i was TERRIFIED! outside, nearly a mile from the car, no shelter really, rain and THUNDER! yeah, i was praying. i probably said 50 prayers. not kidding.
can you see the fear?
but, the LORD blessed us. and we made it back to our cars without harm. so thankful. i am so terrified of thunderstorms i'm surprised my legs even let me walk.
mom was happy to be back to the car too! we are survivors! ;)
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