THE NELSON FAMILY

Steve's brother Scott came to town from California for a week. It was his birthday the week before and so while he was here we wanted to do something fun. We thought about heading down to St. George but we ended up deciding to go to Kanab. Pat grew up down there and her parents still live there, so we went down to visit them, help with yard work, and PLAY! We left Wednesday night. Steve had school :( so he ended up coming down Thursday night. I headed down with the family and ended up sleeping half the way.
Thursday we did a bunch of yard work for Grandpa and Grandma Crosby. It was nice to help out and work together as a family. It was even better to be in the sunshine! Grandpa had the hose on to loosen up the weeds, and Sadie took full advantage of playing in the water and mud!

I wish I had a picture of the back. My camera died right after I took this, but she was in heaven.
A few hours later, after the boys got back from the dump we all piled in the truck and headed down to the creek. It felt so good to walk in the water, and get stuck in the sand. We found a patch of clay and started to play in it like we were little kids. It started to get dark so we had to head back. I went to Source Code with Pat and Dee and then tried to wait up for Steve to get there. His class was up in Salt Lake and it ended at 7:30 so he had a 5 hour drive ahead of him. I was so happy when he ended up rolling in at 12:15. I thought it would be a lot later! I was grateful he made it!
Friday was a ton of fun. The boys went golfing, and Allison and I took Sadie and Missy to the park. When the boys got home we grabbed a bite to eat and went to peek-a-boo (slot canyon).

When we got there Steve looked out the window and right there on the ground was a rattle snake! The boys threw rocks at it, trying to kill it (to save future hikers of course). Scott threw the final blow and got him right on the head. We hiked up the canyon, and then headed back to the creek to cool off and play in the clay. We built this little fort and sculpted Shrek's face on top of it haha we really felt like little kids and we were covered! It was such a fun get away and so fun to have Scott there with us!

Happy Birthday Scooter!

This is going to be a long post! We've have been up to so much and I have been horrible at updating everything. This past month has probably been the craziest month of my whole life, but it has been the best! We've been to St. George, Steve finished finals, flew to Hawaii, Steve started school again, went to Kanab to help Grandpa and Grandma Crosby, I applied for a job in the New Born ICU at Utah Valley, my best friend had a beautiful baby boy, and we hiked Havasupai with Sam and Allison! What a month! Now for the details....

So it was the week before BYU finals and my family wanted to go to St. George, but since Steve was so stressed and had so much to study for, he ended up staying home. It work out well though because he was able to study all week without me trying to convince him to do otherwise and hang out with me. :) I have a tendency to do that...poor guy. Anyway, I was able to head down with my family and we had so much fun! We just went down from Wednesday to Sunday and it was the perfect get away!


Riding the shuttle up to Emerald Pools

Love my cute parents!

Zions!

Hiking up to Emerald Pools

Thanks mom and dad!

We got home on Sunday night, I unpacked and then packed again. Steve got up early Monday morning to take his final (and he did amazing!). When he was done we met at Grandma Nelson's in Provo and then headed up to the airport! Dee, Pat, Steve, and I met Matt and Tana at the airport and we were off to paradise!

On our way!

Our first day there we went and saw the punchbowl. That was really cool because we were able to see the names and stories of people who gave their lives in the Battle of the Pacific during WWII. There was a really neat spirit there, and it was such a beautiful memorial!

My cute mother-in-law

Most of the graves had crosses on them but we found this one that looked like the Angel Moroni and thought maybe this guy was LDS :)

At the top of the memorial climbing for coconuts!

Our handsome men!

Love my sister Tana!


I have THE best in laws!

After the memorial we went on a hike to try and find a waterfall....we never found it haha but the hike was beautiful!


Tana had this little knife thing in her pocket that we couldn't stop laughing about. On our hike there was a bunch of ginger root that we wanted to cut and take home, we remembered Tana had her little knife and whipped it out! haha we couldn't stop laughing!

The view from our room! It was heaven!

Steve and I love to read books together. We'll read one chapter and then switch off. Sometimes one of us will read forward without the other one and then we'll have to fill each other in on what's going on. We started to read The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and while we were filling each other in on everything, it got Matt and Tana hooked too! We all took turns reading to each other the whole trip. It was a lot of fun!


Reading and watching the sunset!

TURTLE BEACH

WAIMEA FALLS

So... I don't have any pictures of this and I wish I did because it was hilarious. We wanted to go to the temple so all of us woke up early to make it to the 9 o'clock session. All of us were ready and waiting outside our hotel room for Pat because she had to go to the bathroom. After awhile Steve decided to go in and find out what was going on. When he opened the door we all heard him yell, "HOLY SMOKES!" and the door shut behind him. I could hear him coughing and gagging! None of us had a key so I started banging on the door. When he opened it we all piled in and there was smoke everywhere! Somehow our stove top turned on and it had a bag of chips on top of the burner. The alarm went off and we had to wait for someone to come up and check everything out. We almost burned down our hotel haha if it wasn't for Pat we never would have gone back in and it would have been a disaster. We did make it in time for the 9 o'clock session but we all smelt like smoke!

One morning Dee woke Steve and I up because he met a guy while on a walk that morning who said he would take us deep sea fishing! Dee LOVES to fish so he was so excited! I had never been deep sea fishing before so I was excited too. Pat stayed home because she get sea sick but the rest of us headed out! Everyone did really well for about the first hour and then the queasiness started to settle in for Steve, Matt and Tana. They spent most of the time in the cabin asleep. We were able to reel in some fish though before that all happened!