Sunday, April 1, 2012

A normal family getaway!!

I am so grateful for long weekends! Tim is fortunate enough to get every other Friday off of work so we took advantage of it and headed south to the sunny rocky places of Zion National Park. God how awesome are your works!! It was so wonderful to get away from the city and go on some hikes with Tim and David.  David could throw rocks into the water all day long. What a great kid we have! Unfortunately he developed croup Friday night so we took him to the Insta Care Saturday morning. It was only a mile away and we were the only ones there so we were in and out in less than half an hour!


 


Can you see the rock that is winking with a smile? Tim has a great eye!

Zion National Park - Thank you God for your wondrous works!


 

Beautiful combination -- blue-green water and red sandstone shoreline


Rock throwing...ker... plunk!

Can you ever run out of rocks to throw into the water? Yes. You can.

Feeling good! Nice to be in the warmth of the sun at Sand Hollow Lake!

It was so windy at Sand Hollow State Park. David found the perfect alcove to get out of the wind!
We headed back on Sunday. Just in time. It turned pretty cold over night. Saturday it was in the low 80s and Sunday, it turned back to winter. After church we had lunch in our motel room then packed up the car and by then it started to rain and snow. It was in the low 40s and dropping fast. Tim drove the entire way back to SLC through the mountains, sleet, rain, snow and low visibility.

It was just 2 years ago almost exactly to the day that we drove from Indiana to Utah for Tim to begin his new job. We had wonderful weather driving for 3 full days and then just a couple hours shy of reaching SLC we ran into a winter snow storm in Wyoming. Well, God took care of us then just as he did all weekend. Thank you Lord for your mercy and grace each and every day!


1 comment:

J said...

Thank you for sharing some photos! I loved visiting there about 15 years ago. I even remember sleeping in a tent and it colapsed on us because of the weight of the snow that night. Fun memories! It is nice to get away and enjoy God's creation!