Destination: Sedona, AZ

Sadly, Dylan, Ashley and Parker couldn't make it this year, we missed them dearly! Maybe next year huh guys?!

Looks like an exciting long drive right? Jake has to find ways to occupy himself, one of those ways is to pester the person next to him, which of course was me! As you can see he is doing this with great success, GROSS!

The long drive had the opposite effect on Markham and Katie! How precious is that candid!

Here we finally arrive at our destination.....Sedona, Arizona, land of the red rocks, which were awesome!!

This is Sedona Springs Resort which was our home for 10 days, it was a great cozy place! Good pick Frumpy!!!

Seesters!!!
Could you guess we were tourists!? Maybe it's the big family wagon, the overhead Thule, maybe even the bikes, or was it the Idaho license plate that gave us away?

Montezuma's castle

Home of the ancient Sinagua indians, pretty intense huh? Can you imagine the hike just to get to bed.....I'd rather sleep under the stars....then again there are scorpians and nasty creatures....hmmmm

After a little bit of "trouble" in the visitor center Katie was all smiles on the trail after some fruit snacks, well she calls them "nacks".

Me and Frumpy just enjoying the view and resting from the serious heat!

I mean check out how high up that thing is! Are you kidding me....how'd you like to climb up that multiple times in a day.....and with babies and toddlers........hmmm I guess I know why I wasn't born then!

Caution: Kids at play

We did spend some time inside keepin cool, Katie took full advantage of this time!! How cute, they played for like 45 minutes!!

RED ROCK SLIDE!!!

There was this crazy fun natural slide created out of the rock with a pretty quick current to keep you going! Jake and Markham couldn't get enough of it, they went like 6 times! We collided a couple of times, no big deal! As you can see we had a blast!!

On our way home we stopped at the good old Grand Canyon!! It was still there!! That is a big freaking hole behind us!!
This is so adorable I had to post it for all to see! This is on the way home, we had to stop to eat at good old Dairy Queen and Katie just loved being out of the car!!

What else?

We visited a cool old mining town, Jerome, which is in the background of our pic. In it's day it was the place to be, it even had a red-light district.....oops. Now the town is down to only about 400 residents from a high of 15,000 when the mine was operational. It sounds kind of boring, but it really was interesting learning about the town's past.

We had to get a picture of this old time post office for Jake's dad, I think he would appreciate it!

We decided it would be fun to go on a bike ride in 100 degree weather around the amazing rocks in Sedona, which happened to be uphill. What were we thinking do you ask? Well in all fairness we didn't know it was going to be all uphill!! Me and April agree it was horrific, we turned back and the boys kept going........I swear we are not wimps....it was hard!!

We also had the privelage of celebrating Jake's birthday while we were in red rock country. Happy 25th babe!! We had a funfilled day at Montezuma's castle and then we ate at Tlaqupaque in Sedona, good good food!!

Could he be anymore cheesy?!

I swear this is not a normal activity for Jake on his birthday.......actually I'm not really sure what he is doing, I might not want to know! what a dork!

Bikes make their appearance!!!

Well, to Jakes delight we have been successful in attaining some bikes for ourselves. That sweet Jake donated plasma so he could not only get him a bike, but also one for his sweet wife!! What a cutie!

We have been on a couple of casual rides since we got them, but the other day to my horror we went on a VERY hard ride!! I'm talking a mean steep hill we had to ride up. While we were in my personal hell of busting our butts to get up this hill, Jake says, "oh I guess I forgot what a climb it is." I said are you freaking kidding me, this sucks!! Jake's sister came with us and needless to say she might be hesitant to go with us again!! So here are some picks of our new bikes after our hellish ride. Although coming down was sa-weet!!

Do I look like a munchkin compared to these two or what! Whoa the

plight of the vertically challenged........

Don't judge me for my sweet hair do......I just got the crap beat out of me!!

Look how proud my sweet babe is!! I am glad he finally got his bike. That is all I have been hearing about since we got home from Michigan is his "need" for a bike. So he's pretty satisfied right now!!

Mother's Day....I know....I am behind!!

This is Jake and his sweet mama! We were sad we could not see both our mothers on Mother's day, but we were lucky enough to see one of them!! It was a fun filled day of food and treats, like always!! It was fun having all the Wittwer family together and of course I loved seeing those little babies!!

hmmmmm.....about to cry....
This is Arianna, she is kind of giving a little dazed face, the flash probably made her eyes go crazy! She is the newest addition to Jake's sister's fam, the Frisons. She is so chubby and adorable!! Unfortunately this is the only time it is cute to be chubby!!

Okay so this is Lily, I only had a picture of her when she was very little on the blog, so I thought you all could see how much she has grown!! She's interested in food, not really me at that moment! What a cutie!!

Babies!!

Well, I have run into slight complications with my computer, we are infected with some serious viruses, and my USB's don't work! I am not a computer genius so I am at a loss, but it is pretty obvious that our computer is dying.....yes I know very heartbreaking....... it had a good fun.....7 years, not bad. So I don't have the pics I was going to post but I decided to show off my adorable nieces and nephews for you all instead. Hopefully we will get a new computer soon, then I can post some new things going on right now in our little lives!!

The top pic is of cousins Katie and Parker, the second is of cousins Jaylen and Lily, Arriana, the newest addition is not pictured because once again no uploading is possible from my camera right now, but I was determined to give you all something new, so here ya go!

Bikes....coming soon

Well Jake looked at the blog and put his stamp of approval on it! I do have to tell you all something kind of funny. Jake's new project is saving all his pennies for a bike. Poor boy has even resorted to donating plasma to make an extra $60 a week for his precious "bike fund!" He really really wants his bike! Um....ouch, he asked me if I wanted to donate plasma with him and I flat out said,"heck no!!!" I am not so good with needles. After reviewing our blog he kind of laughed and said he thought I would have joked about him going to such extremes, so not to disappoint, I wanted to share it all with you!

Do you think all that plasma donating has affected him? Does he look like a calm, healthy person? Yeah I didn't think so......just checking!