Hiking at Zion National Park

We went on a beautiful hike at Zion National Park.

We saw several reindeer on the trail.

This was a hard hike for me, but look, I made it to the end! I was so proud of myself! Of course the end wasn't really the end. We still had to turn around and go back. It was my favorite hike of our trip. It was nice and shady for the most part and it was pretty and we saw lots of deer.

The Grand Canyon

Since the only time I can update our blog is when I am at my parents, I don't exactly update very offten. But beleive me, I've got alot to update!

In June we went on a family vacation to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon and then finally to our final destination, Cainveille, Utah. We had our family reunion in Cainville at a Hotel and met up with the whole fam there. Cainville is a very very small town in the middle of nowhere.

Dad, Mom, Shaun, Brandon, Mark, and me all drove up together. So our first night we camped out at a camp ground near the Grand Canyon. It was nice during the day, but I froze my booty off that night. It was so much fun camping! It brought back so many childhood memories. We went camping a lot when we were kids. Here is our our campsite.Look how close we are to the out house. It was the cleanest outhouse we have ever been in. It was clean and unscented. And it was nice and close to our campsite.

Here is where we had our campfire and ate food.

So the next morning we got up and went to the Grand Canyon and spent maybe an hour there. We just went on a small trail, about a quarter mile, and took pictures. Here is a picture of a butterfly on a flower that I saw on the trail.

Me taking a picture of myself with the Grand Canyon behind me (and my brother Shaun making a weird face)Pictures of the beautiful grand canyon

Another celebration of Shawn's birthday

Ok so we had like 4 celebrations of Shawn's birthday, but I had to include them all in the blog. This is the last one though! So the top picture is me and Shawn posing. The one just below is Logan waiting to blow out the candles.
And Logan got to blow out the candles for his Uncle Shawn.

Mark's and Shawn's birthday

We celebrated Shawn's and Mark's Birthday together, since they are just a week apart. Khyl and Danielle drove down from Reno to spend a few days with us, so we were all together this weekend. Here is a picture of me and Shawn.Mark got a ton of ties and missionary stuff since he will be leaving on his mission within the next year.

My mom made this blanket for Shawn with pictures of Powell on there. What a thoughtful gift!

Shawn loooooves home canned peaches and pears! Guess what? He got a box of them for his birthday! yum yum!

This pictures didn't turn out at all, but I wanted to get this one of Candice sleeping! She just had a baby so she's got to be exhausted, but I don't know what Shaun's excuse was.

Khyl and Danielle brought their dog Timber with them. She is one friendly energetic dog!I took a few pictures all around the room so you could everyone that was there. We will start with Dad.

Danielle is holding baby Jaxon!

We had three

The birth of Jaxon Lee Halbert

Jaxon was born on May 15th around 8:30am. He was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 20 inches long

Here is his Daddy holding him.

Here is his Mommy holding him.

And here is his Uncle Shawn holding him.

Funny/cute pictures of Sabian

Here is a cute picture of Sabian laying at the top of stairs hanging her paw and head over the top stair. If you look closely you can see that her head is on top of her other paw.

So one morning as I was leaving for work, I just noticed that Sabian had her nose through the bars of the stair railing and I thought it was hilarious and cute at the same time. So here are the pics.

I got a close up of this one.