What a weekend

So this weekend was very interesting. It was a long weekend due to the wonderful Holiday of the 24th and then Brock and I took off work for Friday, Monday and Tuesday. However our much-looked forward to weekend started off kind of rough. Brock went mountain biking up Mueller Park with a friend on the morning of the 24th. He came home about 2 hours later bleeding down the right side of his body. Apparently he had been going too fast (Note the last thing I told him before he left was not to go too fast) and as he went down a hill he hit a rock sending him over his handlebars. Luckily he didn't hurt himself too badly, but he did land on his head and banged up his arm pretty bad. I took him to mom because she knows more than me and she suggested us to go to the doctors for X-rays since he couldn't move his arm. Well since it was a holiday the only doctor's office that was open was the Emergency Room. Needless to say we were there all day but thankfully there were no broken bones - just lots of swelling and implanted gravel in his skin.

The poor guy was in a lot of pain but I'm just to thankful it wasn't anything too serious. He is healing pretty fast; the swelling is going down each day, bruises are starting to form - everywhere and he is gaining more motion in his arm. He was really bummed because we had a lot of fun things planned for this weekend that required two arms - mainly repelling, but I'm just happy he's ok.
Second big event of the weekend was Brock's little brother Kade coming home from his mission. He served mainly in West Philadelphia. It's great to have him home, we love hearing all his stories. This is almost everyone that came to see him at the airport which includes Brock and Pam's family (Brock's uncle and aunt) and Liza and Tad's fam (Brock's sister).This is Kade meeting Wyatt for the first time.

The morning after Kade came home we headed down to St. George for a day and then met up with Brock's extended family for a couple of days in Zion's National Park. We went on a few hikes, went swimming and four wheeling. We were supposed to go repelling with Brock's cousins but since Brock still had a bunk arm we couldn't go - lucky for me. Don't get me wrong, I love hiking and rock climbing but it's hard for me to trust a little-bitty rope to support me as I lean backwards over a 100 ft cliff..... We had a wonderful time though and since we didn't go on the long hikes it gave us more time to relax and hang out with family.


haha. We took a day trip into Zions to go on a hike and due to the park's steep entrance fee, we packed everyone into a couple of cars. This was the van we rode in where there were four older kids stuffed in the back. They were hilarious and I'm still unsure how they fit into that small space. After we were done with the hike and back on the shuttle to the car, one of the girls asked her mom if she had to ride in the trunk again on the way back - her mom said she got a few glares after that.
On our way back home to Bountiful, Brock and I stopped and did a couple hikes in Zions - it is one of our most favorite places to visit. We had such a great time and am really sad it had to end. Vacation always goes by way to fast.