[.fall seven times, stand up eight.]

Boy, have I missed Moab?!

 

Lance and I were able to go to Moab a couple months ago and ride the four wheelers.  That was "Lance's way" of the Moab trip.  So, now I needed to break him into "my way" of the Moab trip! HIKING!
One of the best workouts out there!  The weather was a little chilly at the first of the morning but other than that it was perfect!
The skies were BRIGHT blue and I LOVED it!
Secretly, so did Lance :)

I am sad, however, that we missed mine and Lance's neice and nephews first birthdays and the halloween weekend up in Richmond with Lance's family.
Happy birthday Harrison!
Happy birthday Reagan!

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Here's to a TON of pictures!

The first thing we do when we get to the room is... well duh, jump on the beds!



Before we even entered the park...

My mom got pulled over and somehow managed to get out of a ticket going 22 over the speed limit.
I'll never know.

Ya know when you go to Lagoon and you have that first ride that you just have to go on!?  Mine was always colossus!  Well, that is the way I felt when we got to Moab.

Delicate Arch is my Colossus!

 

How is that for a 22 week photo?

It took about 7 shots to get one that actually worked, where it didn't look like I was constipated from pushing my stomach out so far.

Have you ever had one of those moments where you just feel like doing a cart wheel?  Well...



After Delicate we went to Balanced Rock and the North and South Window arches.



I snapped this photo about 1/2 a second before....

she missed a step and almost knocked her face open.  I could have sworn she did.  I'm such a good daughter to take a picture of my mom on her butt instead of helping her up.
That's why I have a husband right?:)





Don't worry there is just a drop off right behind us.


Photo credit to Lance :)

We ended up gonig to Zax for dinner that night. Mmm.

Saturday we got ourselves ready for Double O Arch.  Also another one of my favorites.

I must say I felt a little handicapped this time around.  I usually love to jump from rock to rock and run back down the trail once we've made it to the arch.  But I have a wonderful husband that kept reminding me I am carrying our child.  So I took it easy and let him help me like a gentleman through the crazy rocks.

Whenever he comes to help me it makes me realize that the last two miscarriages haven't only affected me but him too.

I love the Double O Arch hike because of the view you get along the way.











Lance was Brookie's buddy this hike.



Once Brooke saw that we had to walk across the top of this rock she was done, said she was going to wait for us, but Lance came to her rescue and offered a piggy back.  Sometimes I forget that Lance is her brother and not an uncle.  I thought it was adorable.









Can you see why she might have wanted a piggy back? You feel so huge yet so tiny at the same time.









Apparently we are all spazes because Jenna fell off the rock about 1/2 a second after this shot!  We were walking and taking the picture to catch-our-hair-flowing-in-the-wind.
Note to self: Don't walk and take pictures at the same time.





We made it to the Double O!
The bottom O seems so big and then you walk to the other side and the top O is ginormous!

As I walked back down through the little O, I see my husband...climbing up the side of a rock like Spidy!



 All of a sudden he disappeared and I saw his shadow walking up along the top. So I ran back over to the other side, and yes, there he was standing in the ginormous O!

 

On our way back, I saw this gap between some rocks and wanted to plank between them.  Probably not a good idea.. So I made everyone else do it :)

 

 

 

 Brooke was a little too short to plank the gap so she decided to jump off the rock instead.

 

 

We shot some other pretty cool pictures along this hike but Jenna has them on her camera.

Oh boy will I have some adding to do!  Have you ever seen so many stinkin pictures in a post!?

 

After our hike we did some shopping, sat in the hot tub (well I dangled my feet) and watched one of my clients pageants.

 

For the last day in Moab we tried an arch I've never been to.  Corona Arch.

 

 

 

Okay, the description of this hike was a bit deceiving.  Moderately easy?  My butt!

 

 

If it were moderately easy do you think you would need metal ropes and ladders to help you get through it?

Didn't think so.

 

It actually wasn't too bad, it was an awesome hike!

 

Perfect way to end our last day in Moab!

 

 

The view from laying under the arch.

Oh, yeah...  Jake only has 10 flippin weeks left until he's home from TONGA!