Got Sand?

We went to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes up north of Kanab over the weekend with a bunch of the family. Brother-in-law Mitch and his Dad brought up their fun toys to romp with. The kids were in heaven.

Pretty girls.
The Griffiths came down from Spanish Fork, they are excellent campers. Kate saved our bacon lots of times by bringing things I'd forgotten, including bacon :)

For some reason I'm doing about 8 loads of laundry today, go figure.

Peter LOVED riding the Ryno, here he is in one of his cleaner moments. Most of the time he was literally rolling in the dirt or running away from me when I had a wet wipe aimed at his face.

Tessa and I drove thru the mud and it splattered us pretty good. Her question was, "Mom! Do you HAVE to drive thru the mud?!" My answer was, "Yes."

Here are the beautiful and handsome Livingstone siblings. Aren't they pretty? Ryan had his hand protectively over the can because there were bees galore there and they loved his CodeRed. Leah drank a bee but he politely didn't sting her tongue, she just spit him out and I like to think the bee and her were both a bit wiser after that.

Here are the Outlaws, it is fun that I get to hang out with my sister at Livingstone family gatherings, we have fun. Plus I'm super happy that my sisters Kate and Jess married such nice fellas, I like my brothers a lot.

Baby Stone was such a happy camper, I accused Kate of forgetting him at home the first evening of the trip because he napping and we hadn't seen his little pink cheeks yet. But he was there, the kids enjoyed fighting over who got to hold him. Good times. Although, I probably fought some people for the privilege of holding the darling little monkey. He is too cute. . . I don't need anymore babies.

Mitch and I took the kids to a big dune up the road that was just for kids to play on, no quads allowed. The kids tired themselves out hiking up and down and sliding and digging and, in Tessa's case, screaming about being stung by a bee (she can scream really loud, she is still alive though).

The sand was really fun to play in though. I think I vacuumed a pound of it out of the van this morning.

She didn't run him over.

Before the bee sting.

She is too cute.

This dude had SUCH a good time playing. He is a good kid.

Don't worry Amanda, Lindsey and Whit, they did "Make a pillow for his head" and no birds got him and he spit on his face a lot. Apparently it is hard not to when one is being buried in the sand. Who knew?

Valla and her Daddy. Surprisingly, she got sand in her eyes.

It was a great trip. We loved it and we hope we get to do it again sometime :)