A GRAND SITE July 28th 2012

Earlier today we had stopped at the 4 corners . Then we headed to the Grand CAnyon. All I Can say is WOW.. Words just can not do justice to this magnificent creation of our God so I will just let you see for your self.

Tanner checking out the view

My hubby

Jordan

Myself

My family with my parents

My family

Colorado day 3 July 27th 2012

Well today we basically did a lot of driving but the scenery along the way was just spectacular.. I thought I would share a few pictures of what we saw on our drive.

Colorado day 2 July 26th 2012

Today before we started to head farther west we made a couple stops first. We went to Manitou cliff dwellings. It was really gorgeous.. as well as a place called Garden of the gods that we stopped at after that.

A VERY LOOOOONNNGGGG DAY Colorado Day 1 July 25th 2012

Wednesday turned out to be a very long day. We left Maryland and headed out west for a trip with my parents but for us the day started at 12:00 am Wednesday morning. You see we never went to bed that night. Ken got home from work at 11:30 and then we had to be at my parents house at 2:30 because a shuttle was picking us up at about 3 or so to take us to the airport. It just didn't make any sense really to go to bed. So we headed to the airport picking up some other people along the way in the shuttle. It still amazes me to think how we can defy gravity like we do when flying.

After we got to Colorado , got to where we were going to stay and took a little nap, We took a train ride up the mountain to Pikes peak... What a site. Talk about beautiful..

on the way up the mountain

on the way up the mountain

we saw these wild rams or whatever they were on the way up

made it to the top.

what a view...

As you can imagine.. We were all REALLY exhausted by the end of the day. Looking forward to day 2 though .. More to come..

Wordless Wednesday

I took this pic when we were at the Relay for Life

Insect or Fowl ?

The other evening I was sitting on the back deck and I happen to see this thing hovering around some flowers we have. At first I thought it was a little humming bird because of the way it was kind of still in mid air except its wings which were going so fast you couldn't really see them. When I got the camera however and got a closer look, I could see that this thing didn't look like any hummingbird. It looks like some kind of insect or something. Some one said it looks like a cicada but I'm not sure, I've never seen a cicada like this. Does anyone have any idea? Whatever it is it's pretty interesting.