Our First Road Trip

On spur of the moment, we decided to travel to Colorado for Chad's cousins wedding....little did we know that we would travel over 1500 miles and visit 4 different states. Our first stop was in St. George, Utah for the sealing. Chad went to the sealing while I hung out with the kids in the waiting room. Jaxon did great except for hanging up the phone when this little old lady was trying to talk to her phone company....oops!We then drove to Grand Junction, Colorado for the reception the following night. Of course I didn't take any pics of the bride but this is Jaxon dancing with the ladies...girls better watch out. He went to one of his cousins and grabbed her hands to dance (so cute) but the first girl (the one to the right) told him no so when she wanted to dance later he wouldn't have anything to do with her.

We then went to Mesa Verdes near Durango, Colorado. It's an ancient ruin sites from over 1400 years ago. These people built their cities in the sides of mountains. It was pretty cool to see how they built their homes and why they did in the side of the mountain. Jaxon sitting in the home of one of the ancient ruins.

Of couse, Colorado is beautiful and we decided that we would like to live there someday...or at least during the summer since it is the end of May and there is still snow on the ground!
We then went to Silverton, Colorado which is an old mining town. Jaxon's favorite part was seeing the "choo choo" train. We actually got to go inside the mine and have a tour of how they panned for gold. It was a little creepy but very interesting even though the whole time I kept thinking we need to get out before it caves in.... :) We started back to Vegas and decided to go to the Grand Canyon. On the way, we stopped at Four Corners Monument (which is not as big of a deal as we thought it would be...so don't make a special trip if you ever wanted to see it!)
Finally, we stopped at the Grand Canyon in Arizona and stayed for about 2 hours as we went to the visitors center and walked along the south rim. Our kids are great travelers especially because we were in the car so much! Most of the time they both slept! We feel very blessed to have such great kids.

This is one of my favorite/funniest pics of Jaxon. He wanted me to take a picture of him and put on a big fake smile! Cori making sure she is being heard! Both of my kids sleeping...what they did the whole trip! Cori has bubbles on her mouth but the camera doesn't do it justice.