Heat, Puke, Zions National Park and the Grand Canyon

This summer for the Anderson's Family vacation we went to St. George with Mark's brother's family.  We went to the Grand Canyon and Zion's National Park.  It was hot as Hades, kids got sick and there was a car accident in Vegas.  Sounds likes a National Lampoons movie, nope just another vacation as Anderson's. 

Jacob Lake Gas Station

Jacob Lake 45 miles before the Grand Canyon

Mark worked at Jacob Lake the fall of 1995

Zoe and Noah at the Grand Canyon

Piper, Noah, Steve, Max and Zoe

Steve and Max (Noah climbing under the rail)

Grand Canyon Wasps that tried to Kill us.

Get me the "H" out of this thing!

Maggie, Piper and Zoe

Noah at Angel's Window...see the hole in the rock?

Hippies sleeping on the edge of the canyon

Max

Deer

Run Deer Run

Craziness in Arizona

The Phoenix Haboob of July 5th, 2011 from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

Happy Freedom Day

Bear River Lodge

We have been slacking on blog post so here we go at coming up to speed.  A few weeks ago we went up to Bear River Lodge with all of Amanda's family for the summer reunion.  We had a great time.

The Deer looked beat up.

Grandpa teaching the Grandkids how to fish.

Mckay ready for fun.

Maggie acted like she ruled the place as usual.

The kids all got in the hot tub.  The highlight for most of the kids.

From Left to Right: Shelbi, Demi, a Twin, Michea, the other Twin, Ali, Zoe, Taylee, Sissi, Noah, Miles, Micah and Mikayla. 

Aunt Abby...Her expression sums it all up.

Maggie loves her Aunt Aubrey.

Maggie has second thoughts about her Uncle James

The Bear River

Mckay fishing.

Uncle Cole teaching Noah how to shoot a gun.

Grandpa taught Noah how to fish and let him use his pole.

We rented these side by sides and had the most fun.

Skateboard Wars

Zoe and Noah got creative with their skateboards and put these death traps together and raced down the driveway.   Helmets, Car seats, rope, skateboards and the desire to race.  Pretty much our version of the "Fast and the Furious". 

Look out Maggie

Maggie's first stitches!

Maggie fell into the corner of the cement step in our back yard.  The cut wasn't too bad but it was curved a little. And from my small medical experience, I know that cuts on the faces of girls are treated differently than most to minimize scarring. So we took her to the doctor.  I thought they might glue it, but they ended up putting ONE STITCH:)

On the way to the doctor's office.  Noah gave her a sucker to make her feel better...and it did!

To numb the area they put lidocaine gel under this clear band-aid thingy (I'm a little rusty on the terminology) and let it sit for 20 minutes. Then came the stitch. No pictures were taken during that. It was very sad! She kicked and screamed as I held her down. NOT FUN!!  In the meantime Mark took the other two to McDonald's.

This was taken the next morning. Poor baby!