my catch up post :)

Yeah.... so I've been really busy... and at first couldn't even find my blog page!!! but anyway- here's a post that will me extra long (not that I've posted a lot anyway :)

yes.... Andrew throwing leaves at me

this was from a while back... when we went to Colorado in... I think March or so

Natalie, my cousin :) I entered it into the fair and it won 1st in the adult category!!!

                                              And... for this one below... no comment :) I just love it

 And this was a firework... but again- just cuz i like it :)

(for some reason my computer wont let me put my comment ABOVE the pic... so this is for the pic above :) OHHHH YEAH!!! here our small plane is flying over the GRAND CANYON!!!! This has gotta be my favorite picture!!! Hopefully I'll get to enter it in a National Geographic contest :) We went to GC in October 2012... it was SOOO amazing!!!

(ABOVE) Again flying over the GC... in this one you can see JUST A LITTLE BIT of GC!! it's amazing!

(ABOVE) The fam at Hoover Dam

(ABOVE) and we finally actually make it to the Grand Canyon!!

(ABOVE) hiking a wimpy 3 miles :) the next day, we went down the Bright Angel Trail all the way to Plaetu Point! We thought we wouldn't have enough time to make it back up if we had kept going to the end of the trail to actually look down at the Colorado river... so we hiked back up.  We ended up doing half the time we took to go down!!! In total, we hiked about 12 miles.. yes. I was SORE haha

(ABOVE) a beautiful desert plant

(ABOVE) the Canyon at sunrise... it was SOOOOOO stinkin' cold!!

(ABOVE) a chickadee :)

(ABOVE) Sedonna... this was at the Slide-rock Sate Park... and yes, the name explains all.  (it was ICE-COLD! 50 degrees!! we were hypothermic afterwards! 

(ABOVE) I just like this pic :)

(ABOVE) the boy's praying mantis :)

(ABOVE) and yes! the Balloon was THAT close to our house!!!!

(ABOVE) our gigantic tree :)

(ABOVE) Andrew and I :)

(ABOVE) Let's just say... I was... experimenting :)

(ABOVE) my gingerbread house this year! It won 2nd place and i received a $75 gift card!! woohoo!

(ABOVE) Toby... an eastern Grey Tree Frog that my grandma gave to us when she found it in her indoor plant!

(ABOVE) I guess I'm a little too dramatic about the cold lol

(ABOVE) Christmas day!

(ABOVE) my little cousins in Ohio :)

(ABOVE) I know it's not a GREAT quality picture, but i like it :)