Grand Canyon!!!

Okay, so you can tell by the title that we went to the Grand Canyon. I always seem to have trouble moving the pictures around in my blog. I deleted one and tried to add it back and now it is at the top of my post. I am going to have to live with the disorder (hard for a firstborn) until I figure out how to fix it or have Ryan fix it for me. So, these two pictures are really suppose to be at the bottom of the post with the other pictures. If you know how I can fix it please let me know. Thanks.

A cool picture Ryan took of my parents while I was holding a sleeping baby in the lobby.

Me, Nick and Eric at the cutout in the trail that goes down into the Grand Canyon.

On Thursday we left for the Grand Canyon. We spent the night in Williams, Arizona. The next morning we took the train to the Grand Canyon. Our train guide, Morgan was really nice. She made the trip there and back very enjoyable. Once to the Grand Canyon we got onto a bus that took us to two different lookout locations. It was neat to see the Grand Canyon with snow, as when I went before we were at the other rim and there was no snow. I learned that during the winter months the North Rim of the Grand Canyon is closed, as there is too much snow due to the over 1,000 foot elevation difference between the two sides of the Grand Canyon.

Ryan had not been to the Grand Canyon before, so he enjoyed his time. He wished that we could have stayed longer. I was just happy that he was finally able to see the Grand Canyon. He would like to return to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. On Saturday we attempted to hike down into the Grand Canyon a little ways, but forgot that the trail would be snowy. My dad went down a short distance before changing his mind, as he was carrying Levi. My mom made it a little further before stopping. I hiked down a little further with Ryan and the boys. We stopped at a little cut out in the rock for the tail and Ryan continued on. He gave his wife a heart attack almost when he went out of view. Thus, I decided to hike back up to the top with to boys to keep my mind off of the fact I could no longer see Ryan. The trip up was much easier than the trip down. Ryan would like to return maybe in October with Andrew and Danica to hike to the bottom. My mom has offered to watch Levi, so we will see where we are in a few months.

Levi was a good sport for the whole trip. He traveled very well in the car both ways. The cold weather did not seem to bother him too much. He did get wind burn on his face though. He had a hard time at night though. This is not really anything new, as he has been waking a lot at night since he got sick about a month ago. So, this mommy is not getting much sleep these days. I am hoping he is going to start sleeping more soon. We were down to getting up once or twice (seldom) each night. Now we can be up as many as four times. It is rough at night, but I check and each morning he still finds a way to melt my heart. Who could be made at such a cute boy?

Below are some pictures from our trip. We hope you enjoy and Ryan might post more later, but he is at work right now.

Levi with his Mama at Hopi Point. One of the stops on our bus tour.

Levi trying to keep warm with the help of his Daddy. The hat he is wearing was worn by Ryan when he was a baby. Kind of cool.

You can see that ll loved the Colorado River down in the bottom of the Canyon

like I did when I went when I was in grade school.

Nick, Eric (Uncle Junior), Shelley (Mama/Grannie), Levi (Big Man), Doug (Dad/Papa), Heidi (Mama) and Ryan (Daddy) at another lookout during the bus tour. Oh, I also call my dad Boss for some reason, so I guess he gets three other names.