Weston Adventures

We went out to Box Canyon and had a blast on some huge boulders. It was a perfect day with beautiful scenery.

We hopped some awesome boulders. Chad led the way and was a great guide, we went over a 20 inch boulder with ease. After the boulders the road was steep with hairpin turns, washes, and lots of gravel.

I came around a tight turn and got a little too close to the edge. The gravel sucked us right off the road. It felt like the car would topple over at any second, we had no clue how we were hanging on. Chad hadn’t seen us go over so we waited, without moving an inch, until he found a spot to turn around. I couldn’t believe we actually remained calm.

Poor Chad couldn’t figure out what happened to us. When he came back his face said it all, we had no doubt we were going over. It wasn’t until I saw this picture that I realized it was the inside of the passenger side tires gripping the edge that kept us up. We tied the tow rope to the top front of the roll bar and then to Chad’s bar. Somehow (and I still don’t know how) he managed to pull/keep us from flipping enough to get our bottom front tire onto a boulder, we got a little bit of traction and drove down into the ravine. It was CRAZY!!

The tow rope squished the top of the door and left a small dent and we fell off a boulder that bent the end of the tail pipe. That’s it!

A HUGE THANK YOU to Chad for completely saving our asses and our Jeep!!

Since we can’t be at the cabin (with the whole no running water thing which a week later is still unresolved) it worked out nicely that we’d decided a few weeks ago to go to Disneyland. It was crowded but the weather was fantastic and Zach is now tall enough for most of the rides which was super exciting. We even had a couple “no camera” days which was hard for me but really nice.

Megan was tall enough for her own rocket and Zach LOVED the Tower of Terror. We got stuck in the elevator so we got some line skip passes and he got to ride it 4 times the first day!

Megan was thrilled she could ride CA Screaming and loved showing Zach that if you put your hands in the air all the roller coasters are more fun.

We tried for a family funny picture on Space Mountain but couldn’t seem to get Zach to get his funny face in before the flash. He did however keep his arm up for almost the entire ride on Thunder Mtn.

We did many things on this trip we’ve never done before, river canoes (not all that fun), Zach loved the Army Man recruit, it was actually warm enough to do Splash Mountain, we took the boats to hunt for treasure (which the kids loved, they could have spent most of the day there) and Megan fought Darth Vader while training to become a Jedi Knight.

A little boy knocked Zach over while waiting in line to see Pooh and Friends. They stopped the line and called first aid (he was fine but they insisted). Once he got the all clear they called all the characters over to give him kisses and make him feel better. It was really sweet and made him feel so special.

All that and still time to eat all the treats daddy kept buying…

And get a good nights sleep to do it all again!

It’s our first New Years at the cabin, we had 2012 coffee, spent the day sledding, had smores by the campfire and watched the ball drop on tv (at midnight east coast time so we still got to bed early). Would have been the perfect start to the new year but when we got up on New Years Day we realized the well was broken and we have no water. Hoping this isn’t a sign!!

We now have an on property sledding hill, whohoo!!

This time we weren’t stuck, Greg and Jayne got stuck. They were almost to the cabin too. We knew it was going to happen sooner or later and weren’t surprised given the road conditions. Here they are laughing while sliding sideways in the slush at the top of the wash.

Rob was SOOOO EXCITED, finally he gets to use his tow rope! All of three minutes later we had them pulled them to the side and left the car parked there. I just have to say again, we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Jeep!

Rob had to “turn around” but I think he’s just showing off!

We have a wonderful neighborhood filled with great friends, some of whom are crazy enough to whoop it up and do an incredible light display for Christmas. Thank you Scott and Sheila, we love it!!

The war was so much fun as always!! Thanks to all who came.

We all had so much fun, total chaos and I’ll be picking silly string off things for weeks but FUN!

Santa was able to swing by again before he left to deliver presents. We tracked him on NORAD and were able to get the kids to fall asleep mere minutes before he hit Tucson.

I never would have guessed that the kids would have loved going to the car wash so much! It took awhile but they had a blast.

SOOOOO much fun. We got a foot of snow so we “had” to take out the Jeep. There was just a bit of snow, we couldn’t see until we used the snow brush.

We headed out and were the first to venture out on the forest road.

We were almost back and hit some two foot drifts. Rob decided to start trying to dig us out.

After 45 minutes we were still pretty stuck.

We are finally moving!!

Go Rob, we got out and are headed home! (Note that Rob’s pants are wet to just above the knees, the Jeep ROCKS!!)